Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 19. From the Successes of Revision to German and Russian Occupation (1938-1945). István Ihász

Post-occupation "comrades in arms" propaganda from summer, 1944 One sign of the peculiar relationship between the Western Allies and Hungary is that throughout the three years when the country was at war it was only bombed on a regular basis after the outset of German occupation. In April, under the direction of the Eichmann commando and exploiting what operated and was left of the Hungarian administration, the deportation of the provincial Jewish population to various concentration camps in occupied Europe commenced and was speedily concluded. Veesenmayer's report dated July 11, 1944 is about the completion of the transportation of 437,402 Hungarian Jews. It was around that time that the "brown book" compiled by those who had escaped from Auschwitz reached the Regent, and the protests of the neutral countries at its outrages seemed to intensify. The fact of the landings in the west made the hitherto passive Miklós Horthy more confident, when on July 6 he finally managed to prevent the commencement of the deportation of Budapest Peremptory ("SAS") call-up paper, 1944. On numerous occasions this saved Jews from deportation