Editing László Baky

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{{Quote|The Royal Hungarian Government will soon have the country purged of Jews. I order the purge to be carried out by regions. As a result of the purge the Jewry - irrespective of sex or age - is to be transported to assigned concentration camps.|Baky in a letter to [[Andor Jaross]]}}

'''László Baky '''(13th September 1898 - 29th March 1946) was a Hungarian far-right politician and leading member of the [[Nazi]] government set up in Hungary in 1944.

== Biography ==
Baky was born in Budapest in 1898. Having graduated from military school, he rose to prominence in 1919 for violent counterrevolutionary work he performed as part of the Hungarian [[Alt-Right|Far Right]] movement. He joined the Hungarian National Socialist Party (a Hungarian group associated with the [[Nazi Party]]) in 1938, was elected as a deputy leader the following year and was appointed editor of the Nazi-funded magazine ''Mayarsag''. 

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944 and set up a Nazi government headed by [[Béla Imrédy]], Baky was appointed one of two state secretaries of the interior, with the other being [[László Endre]]. In this position, they both directly reported to [[Andor Jaross]], and were assigned the duty of arranging the deportation of the Jews to [[Concentration Camp|Concentration Camps]]. In April 1944, Baky and Endre attended a meeting held by [[Adolf Eichmann]] at which it was decided that they would send Jews to urban ghettoes before their deportation.  

In 1944, Baky was removed from power and imprisoned after attempting to lead a coup against [[Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya]], who was manoeuvring to try and pull Hungary out of the [[Axis Powers]], as he believed they would lose the war. However, [[Ferenc Szálasi]] was put in power that October, and released Baky and other imprisoned Fascist politicians such as Endre. Baky then continued to arrange deportations and mass [[Murder|murders]] until the Allies overthrew the Nazi government. Baky was arrested in Austria, found guilty of crimes against the state and executed by hanging in 1946.
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