László Csatáry

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László Csatáry (1943)

László Csatáry [ ˈlaːsloː ˈtʃɒtaːri ] (also Ladislaus Czizsik-Csatáry [ ˈtsiʒik ˈtʃɒtaːri ]; * March 4, 1915 in Mány , Bicske small area , Austria-Hungary ; † August 10, 2013 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian police officer in the Czechoslovakia in 1948 absence sentenced to death NS - war criminals . In 2012 the Simon Wiesenthal Center put him at number one on its list of the most wanted Nazi war criminals. In July 2012, he was tracked down and arrested in Hungary .

Life

Csatáry was a police officer and was deployed in Kecskemét during the Second World War in 1941 , in Subotica in 1942 and in Kassa from 1943.

In April 1944 Csatáry was as commander of the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie in Kosice (Slovak: Košice, Hungarian: Kassa) for the configured in a brick factory ghetto jurisdiction in which the Jews from the rural areas of the county Abaúj-Torna were deported by force. Kassa is a town in eastern Slovakia near the border with Hungary and belonged to Hungary again before 1918 and since the First Vienna Arbitration Award in 1938. The ghettoization of the Jews of the city of Kassa and the region was carried out under the orders of the mayor of Kassa, Sándor Pohl, the police chief Györgyi Horváth and his deputy Csatáry. As a compliant helper of Adolf Eichmann, Csatáry is held responsible for the deportation of 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz . After the military occupation of Hungary by German troops, the Eichmann Command with the support of the Hungarian administration and gendarmerie under the government of Döme Sztójay and the head of state and imperial administrator Miklós Horthy ghettoized over 400,000 Jews in the Hungarian province from April 1944 and deported them to German concentration camps.

In 1948, Csatáry was sentenced to death in absentia by a court martial in Czechoslovakia . Czechoslovakia abolished the death penalty in 1990, which was adopted by the successor states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia .

Csatáry fled to Canada in 1949 with a Yugoslav passport , where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal . In 1955 he was naturalized. In 1997 his citizenship was revoked because he had given false information in his application for naturalization. He then left the country and an entry ban was imposed. In July 2012, the British daily Sun reported that he had been tracked down in Budapest . On July 18, 2012, Csatáry was arrested in Budapest and initially placed under house arrest as there was no risk of escape . On June 18, 2013, the Hungarian judiciary brought charges of complicity in the killing of thousands of Jews in World War II.

Csatáry was on the wish list of Operation Last Chance of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Targum Shlishi Foundation .

literature

  • Robert Rozett: Košice . In: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Volume II, 1990, pp. 820-821.
  • Cash desk. In: Guy Miron (ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust. Volume 1. Jerusalem 2009, ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 289-290
  • Gábor Kádár; Zoltán Vági: Hungary , in: Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-57238-3 .
  • Randolph L. Braham : The politics of genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary. Columbia University Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-231-05208-1

Web links

Commons : László Csatáry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Csatáry László - egy kőszívű kassai rendőrtiszt. In: Felvidék.ma. May 18, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2012 .
  2. Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian is charged with Nazi-era war crimes, it at 98 . Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 12, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  3. ^ Alleged Nazi war criminal: Lawyer reports the death of László Csatáry. In: Spiegel Online . August 12, 2013, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  4. a b Three new names on Wiesenthal Center's most-wanted Nazi list have Canadian links. In: The Times of Israel. April 22, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012 .
  5. these locations are called by the Hungarian historian László Karsai, who teaches in Szeged . See Nick Thorpe: Laszlo Csatary: Is Hungary's Nazi suspect worth pursuing? , BBC news, July 17, 2012
  6. Guy Miron (ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust. Volume 1, p. 290
  7. Randolph L. Braham: The politics of genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary. , P. 546. In Braham's case, Csatáry occurs only at this point.
  8. List of states with and without the death penalty (as of September 2004). (No longer available online.) In: Amnesty International. 2004, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amnesty.de
  9. ^ David Vienneau: Ottawa launches court bid to deport 2 new alleged Nazis. In: Toronto Star. November 1, 1996, accessed July 15, 2012 .
  10. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NAMES NEW ALLEGED NAZI WAR CRIMINALS. (No longer available online.) In: B'nai Brith Canada (press release). October 31, 1996, archived from the original on December 8, 2010 ; Retrieved July 15, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bnaibrith.ca
  11. ^ Brian Flynn, Ryan Perry: The Sun finds Nazi who sent 15,700 to die In: The Sun, July 15, 2012, English, accessed July 16, 2012
  12. ^ DPA report in Die Zeit : Alleged Nazi war criminal Csatary arrested In: Die Zeit, July 18, 2012, accessed on July 18, 2012
  13. ^ Hungarian Nazi police chief charged with war crimes , Zeit Online, June 18, 2013
  14. Laszlo Csatary: 98-year-old indicted in Hungary for Nazi war crimes