Döme Sztójay was born as Dimitrije Stojaković on 5 January 1883 in the city of Versec, then part of Austria-Hungary. After Horthy became Regent of Hungary, Sztójay was promoted to general and served as a military attaché in Berlin from 1927 to 1933. He Magyarized his name to Sztójay in 1927, and from 1933 to 1935, he served in the Ministry of Defence. In 1935, he became Hungary’s ambassador to Nazi Germany — a position he held for the next nine years. As ambassador, Sztójay formed strong ties with the Third Reich and often voiced support for German policies to his superiors in Hungary. It was in the summer of 1941 when Hungarian authorities deported some 20,000 Jews, most of whom resided in Subcarpathian Rus and none of whom had been able to obtain Hungarian citizenship. These Jews were deported to the city of Kamenets-Podolski in German-occupied Ukraine, where they were shot by detachments of Einsatzgruppe, which were Nazi mobile death squads. In January 1942, Hungarian military units murdered 3,000 Jews and Serbs in Novi Sad, the major city in the part of Yugoslavia annexed by Hungary. However, in 1942 when the German government began to pressure the Hungarians to deliver Jews who were Hungarian citizens into German custody, Horthy’s prime minister, Miklós Kállay, despite significant pressure from the domestic radical right, refused to deport the Hungarian Jews.Döme Sztójay was 63 years old when, on 22 August 1946, he was executed firing squad in Budapest.
There were no tears shed for Döme Sztójay.
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