László Baky (September 13, 1898 in Budapest-March 29, 1946) was a leading member of the Hungarian Nazi movement that flourished before and during World War II.
A military academy graduate, he came to prominence in Szeged in 1919 for his violent counterrevolutionary work and rose through the ranks to become one of the leading figures in the Gendarmerie. A member of several far right groups he finally left the gendarmes in 1938 (as a Major-General)...
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László Baky (September 13, 1898 in Budapest-March 29, 1946) was a leading member of the Hungarian Nazi movement that flourished before and during World War II.
A military academy graduate, he came to prominence in Szeged in 1919 for his violent counterrevolutionary work and rose through the ranks to become one of the leading figures in the Gendarmerie. A member of several far right groups he finally left the gendarmes in 1938 (as a Major-General) to join the Hungarian National Socialist Party, and passed through a number of incarnations of this fluid movement. He was elected as a deputy in 1939 and sat as a member of a Nazi coalition group. Close to Nazi Germany, he was appointed editor of the German-funded newspaper Magyarság. He soon became a close ally of Fidél Pálffy and the two united with the followers of General Ruszkay and Ferenc Szálasi to form a wider coalition of pro-Nazi conservatives and military men.
After the Nazi invasion and occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Baky...
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