Palika
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Palika
@pkoncsik.bsky.social
Cat lover who drinks and knows things
Thats why i don't finish them...
November 26, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Hungary and treatment of minorities is a historical tragedy, resulting in Trianon but didn't get better after either
October 4, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Unlikely they all considered what they did as crime, thats the real issue...
October 4, 2023 at 10:07 AM
No, it doesn't but it doesn't mean the person in question committed war crime automatically.
He was not prosecuted, if any doubt he needs to be, that's it.
October 4, 2023 at 9:09 AM
Thanks, it's further refinement of that situation, that not all German minorities spoke German and got spared of this double madness of conscription and evacuation plus following deportation.
October 4, 2023 at 9:04 AM
Thus, membership in an organization like the SS became sufficient cause for arrest. But Law No. 10 did not require that all persons considered as criminals be prosecuted; it simply gave the commanders of the occupation forces authority to bring charges as warranted .
October 3, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Let me repeat: German minorities in Hungary conscripted in 1944 become Waffen SS members automatically.
October 3, 2023 at 10:11 PM
Well, prosecute him, go on, I won't stand in your way for sure.
Just saying that after WW2 whole nations were labeled collectively guilty or regions were deported due to their language etc, it wasn't the era of law as you know it, so fleeing not necessarily proves guilt.
October 3, 2023 at 10:08 PM
Was he prosecuted? If not can you call him a criminal legally?
Basic tenant of the law we recognise as such that you are innocent until guilty.
Yes, he is quite likely not a nice guy, representing one of the worst episode of our history.
But he is not a convicted war criminal.
October 3, 2023 at 9:51 PM
I still have your deleted post though :)
October 3, 2023 at 9:23 PM
If you are not prosecuted, can be still considered as criminal?
October 3, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Thus, membership in an organization like the SS became sufficient cause for arrest. But Law No. 10 did not require that all persons considered as criminals be prosecuted; it simply gave the commanders of the occupation forces authority to bring charges as warranted .
October 3, 2023 at 9:22 PM
See www.archives.gov/iwg/research...
'The IMT also convicted three of the groups, the Nazi leadership corps, the SS (including the SD), and the Gestapo. Three groups were acquitted of collective war crimes charges, but this did not relieve individual members of those groups from...
The Trial of the Major War Criminals.
The Allies also established an International Military Tribunal (IMT) to try 24 major Nazi war criminals and six groups.1 These groups, the Nazi leadership corps, the Reich Cabinet, the German General
www.archives.gov
October 3, 2023 at 9:00 PM
Read: German minorities in Hungary. They spoke German, what else?
October 3, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Somebody already pulled this up, I'm asking now for references as it doesn't align with an article from a respected historian triggering my post.
October 3, 2023 at 4:13 PM
I'm interested to see as this does not align with the respected (and as anti nazi as it comes) historian article inspiring my comment. I don't mention his name here for his benefit

Can you dm me with references?
Thanks
October 3, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Fair enough. Let's try him. That's the reason legal system exist, it's not the 'internet' :)
October 3, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Correct. I'm just saying that so far he was not personally implied to participate in those atrocities.
This interpretation of war criminal is not something I made up
October 3, 2023 at 3:32 PM
They were German origin, so 'arya', whatever that means outside of sanskrit :)
October 3, 2023 at 2:31 PM
Nobody is defending Bandera.
At least I'm not one of them.
But Hunka is not Bandera even if he still not a nice man, I would not shake hand with, to say it politely.
October 3, 2023 at 2:29 PM
You don't even know how wrong you are, but ignorance is a bliss
October 3, 2023 at 2:12 PM
Collective guilt in legal form was part of the post WW2 European state legislations though and it worked like a lead balloon.
Spreading love and happiness for the rest of 20th century and beyond
October 3, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Lot of evil born out of these social engineering ideologies, people suffered a lot, their shadow still can be seen in Europe everywhere.
But ignorance and mob mentality is not the solution.
Learning how the nazi Germany born or how the bolshevik took power really opens the eye
October 3, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Don't think they cared frankly, just see what happened after the war with the Jewish population...
The red army / soviets done their own genocide, Siberian work camps etc so, no they weren't the jedi from new republic despite the Germans behaved like Siths
October 3, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Bad taste no question.
Unlikely he participated in Jewish progroms though as he joined in 1943, after the atrocities.
He is not a war criminal legally that could change of relevant proofs surface. Ukraine had a very tough soviet and German occupation. This is what I wanted to say :)
October 3, 2023 at 1:23 PM