"The Arrowcross" is coming to his senses ??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My father survived this, and much more, in Budapest. At one point he was arrested and jailed for avoiding the draft. The next morning he would have been tried and executed. During the night, the jail was hit by bombs, and he escaped when the bars were dislodged. Later, he was caught again, sentenced to dig ditches against the Russian tanks. As the column of men was marched out of town, he ran off between two buildings. A German guard shot at him, but missed. 4 years later he escaped to Austria through a minefield the Russians set up. Incredible stories, by any measure. He became an architect and emigrated to America, by way of Canada first, and became very successful in the D.C. area. He died at 94, in 2019, with his wife, 4 children, and 6 grandchildren around his bed. God rest his soul. He was of the Greatest Generation.

When I was there in early 70’s, my grandmother’s apartment still didn’t have hot water “since the war”, but luckily the bathtub was in the kitchen so you could boil pots. But “since the war” could mean since ‘56; i was a kid so I didn’t clarify that. Either way it seemed like a long time not to have hot water.

Thank you for presenting information on this part of the war which I have been, until now, relatively ignorant about! Kiemelkedő!

Heartbreaking 💔 Such an important and surprisingly not spoken enough part of Hungarian history. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work.

Tragic...Thanks for sharing!