Tuesday, August 23, 2005 
Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar
 

Best Way To Deal With Lajos Polgar

 
 

Lajos Polgar is defiant about his past as a high-ranking member of the Fascist Arrow Cross Party, which governed Hungary towards the end of the Second World War.

A Jewish member of the Australian parliament has now demanded an investigation into his past to determine if, he was in fact, a war-criminal. Polgar still maintains that the Arrow Cross were not involved in any pogroms or were even anti-semitic( he then rather contradicts himself by saying “"everybody in Hungary was anti-Jewish" during the war”).

However, Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust have a different story to tell.
Rather than conduct an investigation into Mr Polgar's past, the Australian government should "request" him to give a media interview. This could be broadcast on national TV and published in the country's newspapers.

During this, he could be asked to repeat the three main assertions that he has made about the Arrow Cross, namely:

1. That it wasn't anti-semitic
2. That it did not organise massacres and transportation of Jews to Auschwitz and elsewhere.
3. That its leaders hanged after the war were completely innocent men.

A prominent historian should then be asked to outline the truth and if possible, a film of the Arrow Cross in action and the Auschwitz deportations should be shown.
Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivors would then be given the opportunity to give their stories.

At this stage, Polgar should be asked if he wants to recant his previous statement.

Whether he does or not is unimportant, the fact that he's still fascist scum even at the age of 89 will have been revealed to the widest audience possible.

The damage to his reputation and respectability that he has built up over the last 50 years in Australia would be more of a punishment for the bastard than the findings of any commission could ever deliver.

Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar, 23.08.2005