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‘THE HUNGARIAN MAFIA’ - A chink on the peace front: Frankfurt am Main
FABULOUS SPY GAMES of the Third Reich, assisted him in doing so.171 Trade adviser Englert was one of the first persons to be labelled a war criminal by the magazine Képes Figyelő, edited by László Petúr,172 in 1945.173 It said: “He was pushing primarily for agricultural exports, and also directed the outlook of German national socialists in Budapest.” The author of the article alleged that Englert played a role in making sure that Hungary’s oil reserves were available to Germany at any time upon request, regardless of the needs of Hungarian industry. 171 ÁBTL 3.2.1 Bt-489, p. 16-17 Report, 30 May 1951 172 László Petúr (1904-1973) writer, journalist. His first writings were published in the journal Nyugat, but he also published articles in the dailies Magyar Hírlap, Pesti Napló and Esti Kurír. After 1945, he joined the efforts to launch the daily Szabad Nép and helped organise the police press office. The weekly Képes Figyelő, edited by Petúr, was published between 1945 and 1949. He was also a member of the editorial board of the journal Élet és Tudomány between 1951 and 1964. Petúr also lectured at the Journalist Academy and had several books of poems published. 173 (cf.): Find the first list of notorious German war criminals in Hungary here. Képes Figyelő, 1945/2 174 Sándor Bródy had five sons. Born out of wedlock, his illegitimate son Sándor Hunyady (1890-1942) also became a writer. András (1892-1964) was a journalist and worked as a foreign correspondent for various newspapers, and it was he who edited his fathers works for publishing. István (1894-1981) started his career as a journalist but emigrated Hungary in the early 1950s to eventually settle in Miami. Illés (1899-1953) was an exceptionally gifted artist according to family legend, but posterity does not appear to be familiar with any surviving works he produced. At the end of the 1920s, he emigrated to America and published two books on gastronomy before writing a book on the relationship between the British King Edward and Hitler entitled Gone with the Windsors. He died suddenly in San Francisco, soon after the book was published. The youngest son was called János, who chose to go into business, and became the manager of the grain exchange, and the chairman of the Horse Racing Society. He travelled to New York on business, never to return. He stayed on in emigration with his son who had already been living there since he was 15 with assistance from Zoltán Vas. János Bródy’s son, Alexander Bródy later became the CEO of one of the largest advertising companies in the world. 175 The weekly Haladás was published between 1945 and 1949 as the press organ of the extreme left wing and anti-fascist Hungarian Radical Party. The editor-in-chief was Béla Zsolt. Born in 1894, István Brody was the third son of the author Sándor Brody 174 and worked as a journalist. His articles suggest that he participated in Hungarian- German trade negotiations even before his placement to Frankfurt, as he visited the West German occupation zones in the spring of 1947, reporting on his experiences in a series of articles in the weekly Haladás. 175 It is unknown when 64
