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  mikls horthy - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Mikls Horthy de Nagybnya (Vitz Nagybnyai Horthy Mikls in Hungarian) (June 18, 1868–February 9, 1957) was a Hungarian Admiral and statesman and served as the Regent of Hungary from March 1, 1920 until October 15, 1944.
Horthy became head of the armed forces of the counter-revolutionary government established on April 10 in the eastern city of Szeged (occupied by French forces).
Horthy spent the rest of the war under house arrest in Germany, being treated remarkably well under the circumstances, and was freed by the Russians in May of 1945.
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 Miklós Horthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Horthy became head of the armed forces of the counter-revolutionary government established on April 10 in the southern city of Szeged (occupied by French forces).
Horthy spent the rest of the war under house arrest in Bavaria, being treated remarkably well under the circumstances, and was arrested by the Americans in May 1945.
Horthy received a translation of their report, called the Vrba-Wetzler report, in May. Details from the report were broadcast by the BBC on June 15 and The New York Times on June 20.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Horthy   (2113 words)

  
 Miklós Horthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (Vitéz Nagybányai Horthy Miklós in Hungarian) (June 18, 1868 - February 9, 1957) was a Hungarian Admiral and statesman and served as the Regent of Hungary from March 1, 1920 until October 15, 1944.
Horthy distinguished himself as an admiral in the service of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary during World War I, in which he defeated the Italian Navy several times.
A staunch conservative, Horthy eventually began to sympathize with Fascism and appointed several pro-Axis officials to cabinet posts in the 1930s.
www.encyclopedia-1.com /m/mi/miklos_horthy.html   (660 words)

  
 The World at War - Horthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Horthy was born in Kenderes in 1868, and educated at the Naval Academy of Fiume.
Horthy was made commander in chief of the Hungarian armed forces in 1919, and in 1920 the National Assembly elected him regent.
At the end of the war, Horthy was captured by the United States Army in Bavaria and was held in protective custody until the end of 1945, when he was released.
worldatwar.net /biography/h/horthy   (367 words)

  
 HWC07
Karolyi was the man of the Hungarian insurrection; Bela Kun was the man of the proletarian revolution; Horthy is the man of the bourgeois reaction, of the white terror and brutal and truculent repression of the proletariat.
Horthy's government is the despotic and bloodthirsty rule of agricultural feudalism, of the landlords and latifundists.
Horthy governs Hungary with the title of Regent because for the reaction Hungary continues to be a kingdom.
www.marxists.org /archive/mariateg/works/1924-hwc/hwc07.htm   (5169 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Miklos Horthy de Nagybanya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
With war declared Horthy was made captain of the cruiser Novara towards the close of 1914, in which he established a name as a bold, aggressive commander in numerous surface actions.
Thereafter in exile in Estoril, Portugal, Horthy died in 1957.
With the departure of the last Soviet soldier from Hungary in 1993, Horthy was reburied in the town of his birth, Kenderes.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/horthy.htm   (470 words)

  
 Horthy de Nagybanya, Nicholas - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Nagybányai Horthy Miklós, 1868-1957, Hungarian admiral and regent.
When the Romanian forces that had defeated Kun evacuated Budapest (Nov., 1919), Horthy entered it and in 1920 was made regent and head of the state.
Charles was then formally barred from the throne and exiled, and Horthy found himself regent of a kingless kingdom.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-horthyde.html   (235 words)

  
 Horthy's Reburial
Horthy was pushed aside and from that moment the matter of his responsibility is rather doubtful.
Horthy was placed under house arrest guarded by the SS in Hirschberg Castle in Bavaria and his son was kidnapped and deported to Mauthausen.
Horthy's reluctant alliance with Germany did result in recovering the bulk of the Hungarian inhabited lands from surrounding countries, which were of course, lost again at the end of the war.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/wooton/34/horthy/l.html   (2234 words)

  
 István Horthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
nagybányai Horthy István) was Hungarian regent Admiral Miklós Horthy's eldest son, a politician and, during World War II, a fighter pilot.
Horthy graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1928.
Between 1934 and 1938, Horthy was the company's director, and after 1938, he became its general manager.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Horthy   (281 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/horthymusic
Horthy band members are as follows: Aitor Berraondo Dexter Ward (Oberheim OB12, synthesizer, percussions, electronic drums), Germán Ormaechea Horthy (Roland MC 505, bass guitar, vocals, lab-top), Enrique Galdeano Merak19 (Oud, darbuka, electric guitar, violin, percussions) and Carlos Hidalgo No Disk (Korg Triton).
Horthy plays regularly in the most popular clubs in Spain and includes VJing with slides, video projections, spectacular light shows and modern dancers in their performances and concerts.
Horthy wants to to be known as an electro/ electro pop cult-classic band and become a legend in the electro-pop music scene in Spain and one day be recognized as such globally.
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 The Kaiser of Austria and the King of Hungary Karl Franz Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen
Horthy stated plainly the bare facts: both the Great Entente and the Little Entente were aware of Karl's return and they were completely hostile to a Habsburg on the throne of Hungary.
Horthy was unamused, particularly since there was no written guarantee; the Great Entente would never fight their small allies, even if they had given a guarantee.
Horthy might have resisted the bullying of Benes and the taunts of Entente diplomats, but he would not be content with the ex-King forever.
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 Admiral Miklós Horthy von Nagybánya
Admiral Miklós Horthy von Nagybánya was born on 18 June 1868 in Kenderes, Hungary (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county).
Horthy as "Royal Governor" or Regent accepted the position on 1 March 1920 and held it until 3 November 1944.
Altough her armament sometimes proved to be inadequate, under the command of Miklós Horthy, she was definitely the most successfull warship of the Austro-Hungarian fleet.
www.geocities.com /veldes1/horthy.html   (1178 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Samuel Goldberger on Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklos Horthy, 1918-1944   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Horthy often gave private voice to such sentiments, but he also liked to surround himself with and gain the approval of the two social groups that were the main support of the Old Regime in Hungary by the 1880s: the landed aristocracy and Jewish industrialists and financiers.
Horthy would not shrink from condoning whatever was needed to "preserve order"; he had already revealed this during the mutinies in the Navy in 1918.
Horthy, however, remaining in character, could answer only by saying that he was still an admiral, and that a captain cannot leave his sinking ship.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16501888515436   (3175 words)

  
 Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Horthy's regime began on the far right, but in time proved able to bring the Terror to an end and restore stability to Hungary.
Horthy was confined to a castle, in essence placed under house arrest.
The Nazis abducted Horthy's son and forced Horthy to appoint Ferenc Szalasi, the deranged leader of Hungary's fascist Arrow Cross movement, as prime minister.
www.geohistory.com /GeoHistory/GHMaps/GeoWorld/hungary.html   (2503 words)

  
 Miklós Horthy Information
A staunch conservative, Horthy eventually began to sympathize with Fascism and appointed several pro-fascist officials to cabinet posts in the late 1930s.
Horthy, however, ultimately resisted German pressure and refused to allow the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the German extermination camps in occupied Poland as part of the Holocaust in 1944, and even prevented deportation of 200,000 Jews from Budapest.
Horthy certainly did as much as any Western leader to protect and save the Hungarian Jews, and under the circumstances did a great deal more than the non-axis leaders, or the western media.
www.bookrags.com /Mikl%C3%B3s_Horthy   (1776 words)

  
 Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rightist military forces, led by the former Austro-Hungarian Admiral Miklós Horthy, entered Budapest in the wake of the Romanian army's departure and filled the vacuum of state power.
Horthy made an alliance with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, in the hope of revising the territorial losses that had followed World War I. The alliance did lead to some territories being returned to Hungary in the two Vienna Awards.
In October 1944, Hitler replaced Horthy with the Hungarian Nazi collaborator Ferenc Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party in order to avert Hungary's defection to the Allied side, which was constantly threatened since the Allied invasion of Italy.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Hungary   (3773 words)

  
 Supermodel 1/72 Re.2000, by Tom Vrauko
Regent Horthy sent his elder son to the front to indicate that his own family was not exempted from the war efforts of the nation.
It was in V.4+21 that Horthy crashed and died at 05:07 a.
In fact, Horthy's plane, although it was the earlier version of the Reggiane, did have an antenna mast, which was not common with the earlier version (and I did not add the mast to the finished model).
modelingmadness.com /reviews/axis/vraukore2000.htm   (1090 words)

  
 Books of Hungarian history The Tragic Death Of Stephen Horthy Vice-Regeant Of Hungary
István (Stephen) Horthy, the Deputy Regent of Hungary and Flight Lieutenant in the reserves, was taking off for his 25th mission in his Héja (Hawk) aircraft, with the designation V-421.
Flight Lieutenant István Horthy and his age in a dissenting light." We should also mention Tivadar Ortutay's memoirs, entitled Két világháboru sodrában [In the wake of two world wars] in which the author, István Horthy's aide-de-camp on the Eastern Front, described the tragedy in detail.
We may recall that the Regent's younger son, Miklós Horthy Jr., was one of the leaders of the resistance movement in 1944; he was shot and captured by the Gestapo on October 15, which was why the Regent was compelled to deliver his speech over the radio sooner than anticipated.
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 University of Cincinnati News: George B. Rieveschl Jr. Award for Scholarly or Creative Works
Sakmyster's Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklos Horthy, 1918-1944 is the first full-length biography of the regent who headed Hungary during the difficult 24 years between Hungary's World War I defeat and the closing months of World War II.
Although many Americans may not recognize the name Horthy, the regent can be counted as the only European statesman who argued with Hitler to his face and walked out on him twice.
Horthy also conducted secret negotiations with the Russians to get Hungary out of the war, but accelerated his own downfall by imprudently announcing the negotiations publically.
www.uc.edu /profiles/sakmyst.htm   (1090 words)

  
 Hungary - Historical Flags (1918-1945)
Horthy’s official title as Regent was “His Serene Highness”, I believe, which seems an inappropriate title for so volatile an individual (although to be fair, steering a middle course between Germany and Russia in the 1930s would probably have been beyond any politician in Central Europe.)
Considering the flag's position in the photograph, I'm inclined to say that it is Regent Admiral Horthy's personal flag, before it was altered to the one that is in Znamierowski, and more renowned: white, with red and green wolfteeth, with the state Coat of Arms in the centre.
Horthy himself was known for English connections, and the dislike of the German power, but he remained silent, because Hungary was a very little 'thing' for Germany.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hu_h918.html   (2022 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya[hOr´ti du no´dyubA´´nyo] Pronunciation Key, Hung.
NagybAnyai Horthy MiklOs, 1868–1957, Hungarian admiral and regent.
He commanded the Austro-Hungarian fleet in World War I. After BEla Kun seized (1919) power in Hungary, the counterrevolutionary government put Horthy in command of its forces.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Horthyde.html   (359 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Horthy's reinterment was modeled on the 1906 reburial of Ferencz Rakoczi, and would later serve as model for Antall's own funeral (Verdery, 1999, pp.
Yet for many Jews Horthy remains the head of a state that sent to the death chambers at least 550,000 of its citizens (Braham, 2001, p.198), most of whom perished before he was deposed by the Nazis in October 1944.
In the memoirs written in his Portuguese exile (where he died in 1957), Horthy would claim that he could do nothing to halt the deportations -- personally supervised by Adolf Eichmann -- and that he was not informed of what expected the Jews at the end of their destination.
www.rferl.org /reports/eepreport/2004/05/11-260504.asp   (2906 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - The meeting between Hitler & Horthy on 16/17 April 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The meeting between Hitler and Horthy on 16 and 17 April 1943 has generally been regarded by historians as one of the few occasions on which Hitler openly admitted the extermination of the Jews in Poland.
On Horthy's retort, what should he do with the Jews then, after he had pretty well taken all means of living from them - he surely couldn't beat them to death - The Reich Foreign Minister replied that the Jews must either be annihilated or taken to concentration camps.
Horthy apologetically noted that he had done all he decently could against the Jews: "But they can hardly be murdered or otherwise eliminated", he protested.
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=10044   (1670 words)

  
 Miklos Horthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
However, he was still regarded by his people as a war hero, and this status paid off in 1919, when the Communist Bela Kun seized power in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
The admiral without a fleet spent the next 24 years as the de facto King of a country without a coastline.
He spent the rest of the war under house arrest in Germany, treated remarkably well under the circumstances, and was freed by the Russians in May of 1945.
www.knowallabout.com /m/mi/miklos_horthy.html   (591 words)

  
 Hungary - World War II
Shortly thereafter, Horthy dispatched Hungarian military forces to occupy former Hungarian lands in Yugoslavia, and Hungary eventually annexed sections of Vojvodina.
Horthy grew dissatisfied with Bardossy, who resigned in March 1942, and named Miklos Kallay, a conservative veteran of Bethlen's government, who aimed to free Hungary from the Nazis' grip.
Horthy used the confusion after the July 20, 1944, attempt to assassinate Hitler to replace Sztojay in August 1944 with General Geza Lakatos and halt the deportation of Jews from Budapest.
countrystudies.us /hungary/35.htm   (698 words)

  
 AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
Horthy, below, was elected as regent of Hungary in 1920 and went on to ruthlessly suppress all political opposition, successfully defeating attempts by Charles I, former emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, to regain the throne.
But by 1942 Horthy believed the Axis powers would lose the war and began to negotiate a peace treaty with the Allies.
After the war, Horthy was a witness at the Nuremberg trials.
www.aiipowmia.com /inter24/in040405lastpow.html   (2820 words)

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