The scariest part of the holocaust in Hungary isn’t the German soldiers, its those two local men who did the work of them. I discovered that two Hungarian officials, name ended with Endre and Baky, had actually operated the death machine while it was the Nazis had the plan.
In 1944 these men did not just obey orders, they were active loyalists to the Nazi agenda. They used the local police to round up their own neighbours, and due to their extremely well organised they deported over 430 000 people to Auschwitz within a period of 56 days. Records indicate this was one of the greatest mass killing in history. Endre had harbored a hatred for years now and Baky served as the logistics guy that dealt with the trains.
The strangest thing about these silent killers, is that they always leave a paper trail. After the war ended in 1945 the two attempted to go into hiding, but it was not possible. The new government found their signatures on each and every deportation order. They literally signed the papers which took away 500 000 lives. On March 29, 1946, they were both brought before a courtyard in Budapest and hanged.
There are famous photographs of Baky at the gallows. It is a rare time that the men who murdered with pens and stamps have actually got punished. It’s intense to think that 2 men in suits could be as dangerous as a whole army.