Fóris Ákos előadása Varsóban az ISCSC éves konferenciáján

Az International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC) ez évi konferenciáját a varsói Hadtudományi Akadémián (Akademia Sztuki Wojennej/War Studies University) tartják szeptember 14–16-án.

Fóris Ákos a nyitónap első paneljének résztvevőjeként tart előadást German Intentions or Hungarian Internal Radicalization? – The First Phase of the Hungarian Army’s Anti-Jewish Policy on the Eastern Front, Summer 1941 címmel.

Az előadás absztraktja

The activities of the Hungarian military administration established on July 9, 1941, in Southeastern Galicia under the command of the Carpathian Group were closely linked to the Holocaust in several ways. Previous studies have already reported the Hungarian elite took advantage of the border occupation to deport nearly 20,000 Jews classified as stateless to Podolia, most of whom were executed by the Germans in Kamianets-Podilskyi at the end of August 1941. However, the Hungarian anti-Jewish measures in the occupied territories against the local Jews and the prejudices of Hungarian officers toward the Jews have rarely

been studied directly.

The paper examines the origin of the anti-Jewish measures against the local population and their relationship to the German occupation policy based on Hungarian, German and Ukrainian sources. Studying this issue is especially important because the month-long Hungarian occupation in Eastern Galicia was the only period when an independent Hungarian military administration operated in the occupied territories, independent of German subordination. I point out in my paper that the anti-Semitic measures against the population and the Jewish enemy images (so-called unreliable element) among the Hungarian Army had already appeared in the previous Hungarian military administrations set up in the reannexed Czechoslovak, Romanian and Yugoslav territories between 1938 and 1941. The military high command had information about the Nazi plans into Eastern occupied territories, which also inspired them to develop relocation plans for Jews and other nationalities.

The paper also examines the Hungarian Army's contradictory relationship to German Anti- Jewish policy. While the Hungarian commanders took action against the pogroms of the Ukrainian armed forces and the anti-Jewish killing actions of one of the Einsatzkommando, they also introduced several Antisemitic measures on the German model, such as the establishment of Jewish councils or the obligatory yellow armband.