Narrator: Marchand Steenkamp.
About the story: András Kun was a Hungarian priest and member of the fascist Arrow Cross Party who became one of the most brutal perpetrators of violence during the Second World War in Budapest. As the war reached its final months in 1944, the Arrow Cross regime carried out a campaign of terror against Hungary’s Jewish population and political opponents. Kun played a direct role in these atrocities. Born in 1911, András Kun joined the radical Arrow Cross Party, a Hungarian fascist movement allied with Nazi Germany and led by Ferenc Szálasi. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, the Arrow Cross militia seized power with German support and began a wave of persecution and mass murder against Jews in Budapest. Kun commanded a group of Arrow Cross militiamen who carried out raids across the Hungarian capital. His unit targeted Jewish homes, hospitals, and shelters, dragging victims from their hiding places. Survivors later testified that Kun personally participated in brutal interrogations, torture, and executions. Under his orders, prisoners were beaten, robbed of their belongings, and murdered without mercy.
Many of these crimes took place along the banks of the Danube River, where Jewish victims were forced to remove their shoes before being shot so that their bodies would fall into the river. These executions became one of the most infamous symbols of the Holocaust in Hungary, later commemorated by the memorial known as “Shoes on the Danube.” As the Siege of Budapest raged and the Soviet Army approached, the Arrow Cross regime collapsed. Kun attempted to flee, but he was captured after the war and brought to justice for his crimes. During the post-war trials in Hungary, witnesses described his cruelty and the murders committed by his unit. The court found András Kun guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death and executed by hanging in 1945, becoming one of the Hungarian collaborators who were held responsible for the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and the Second World War.
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