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László Bernát Veszprémy

László Bernát Veszprémy

László Bernát Veszprémy, journalist, historian. After completing his MA in Holocaust history at the University of Amsterdam, he worked at the Jewish cultural monthly Szombat between 2016 and 2018. In 2017, he became a research assistant at the Veritas Research Institute for History and Archives, and in 2019, the Hungarian-Jewish Historical Institute at the Milton Friedman University in Budapest. Previously, Veszprémy was deputy editor-in-chief of Neokohn.hu, the largest Hungarian-Jewish news portal, and currently, he is the editor-in-chief of corvinak.hu, the popular science journal of Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is also working towards completing his PhD at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His dissertation specializes in the field of political theory and Jewish history.
László Bernát Veszprémy

László Bernát Veszprémy

László Bernát Veszprémy, journalist, historian. After completing his MA in Holocaust history at the University of Amsterdam, he worked at the Jewish cultural monthly Szombat between 2016 and 2018. In 2017, he became a research assistant at the Veritas Research Institute for History and Archives, and in 2019, the Hungarian-Jewish Historical Institute at the Milton Friedman University in Budapest. Previously, Veszprémy was deputy editor-in-chief of Neokohn.hu, the largest Hungarian-Jewish news portal, and currently, he is the editor-in-chief of corvinak.hu, the popular science journal of Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is also working towards completing his PhD at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His dissertation specializes in the field of political theory and Jewish history.
How Did the Great P. Howard Truly Die?
CULTURE & SOCIETY

How Did the Great P. Howard Truly Die?

To this day, neither the exact date nor the manner of the death of famous Hungarian novelist Jenő Rejtő is known. ‘P. Howard’ disappeared in a labour camp on the Eastern Front in early 1943.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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18.01.2023
Does Roger Scruton’s Legacy Live On? — Interview with Robert Grant
INTERVIEW

Does Roger Scruton’s Legacy Live On? — Interview with Robert Grant

‘Many of the causes he promoted used to be thought of (by the ignorant) as “right-wing” and have now become almost, or entirely, mainstream.’

László Bernát Veszprémy
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16.01.2023
Orbán Understands the People — Interview with Thibaud Gibelin
INTERVIEW

Orbán Understands the People — Interview with Thibaud Gibelin

‘The Hungarian prime minister not only understands the people, but is also able to give direction and to synthesise. He can bring the people’s expectations in line with what is achievable.’

László Bernát Veszprémy
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15.01.2023
‘Ending the War in Ukraine Is Up to America’ — Jeffrey D. Sachs to Mandiner
INTERVIEW

‘Ending the War in Ukraine Is Up to America’ — Jeffrey D. Sachs to Mandiner

‘We need the United States and NATO to say to Russia, “Okay, we get it. NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine and to Georgia.” In my view, that is not a defeat of NATO. That is just common sense.’

László Bernát Veszprémy
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13.01.2023
Is Turkey a Trojan Horse? — Interview with Nikolett Pénzváltó
INTERVIEW

Is Turkey a Trojan Horse? — Interview with Nikolett Pénzváltó

Turkey’s relations with NATO have been contentious over the years, but this is not unique among the member states and the parties have always managed to resolve their differences.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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11.01.2023
How Radical Fringes Meet: The Ideas of Béla Kun and the Counter-Revolutionary Regime
CULTURE & SOCIETY

How Radical Fringes Meet: The Ideas of Béla Kun and the Counter-Revolutionary Regime

Paradoxically, Communist Béla Kun and the contemporary nationalist racists had more in common in terms of their views than the Communist leader had with the social-democratic and the left-leaning bourgeois émigrés.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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07.01.2023
‘Failed Monarchist Coups’: the Communist Recipe
CULTURE & SOCIETY

‘Failed Monarchist Coups’: the Communist Recipe

During the great show trials of the late 1940s and 1950s, the Communists often held small ‘side trials’, which provided ample opportunity to extract and collect further compromising data and testimonies against the primary targets, as well as to conduct silent showdowns and to set the course for later trials. This is how the Archbishop Grősz trial led to the arrest and imprisonment of some 50 people, including well-known Hungarian monarchists.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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29.12.2022
The Controversial Programme to Provide Housing to Trianon Refugees
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Controversial Programme to Provide Housing to Trianon Refugees

Under the housing scheme, six thousand flats were handed over to families living in wagons in Budapest alone, and nearly two hundred in country towns such as Miskolc.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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23.12.2022
Treading Carefully on Revolutions
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Treading Carefully on Revolutions

Just as some Christians had trouble accounting for their role in the 1918 Aster Revolution and the 1919 Communist coup d’état, some Jews also had difficulty facing their former position in terms of these events.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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21.12.2022
Making Room for Refugees — A Hundred Years Ago 
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Making Room for Refugees — A Hundred Years Ago 

The majority of the refugees were intellectuals, mostly from Transylvania, followed by those from what is Slovakia, Serbia and Austria today, but there were also some who fled to Hungary from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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12.12.2022
What Does Boston Have in Common with Budapest?
REVIEW

What Does Boston Have in Common with Budapest?

A good politician comes to power with a ‘government of his friends’ already in his mind. The book emphasizes the concept of ‘friends’, because when you want to run a government, you have to appoint people to key positions, who have to be people that you as a leader trust.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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10.12.2022
‘I Won’t Be a Street Sweeper’ — The Contradictions of Left-Wing Emigrant Life
CULTURE & SOCIETY

‘I Won’t Be a Street Sweeper’ — The Contradictions of Left-Wing Emigrant Life

Aversion to work was not unique to the leaders of the emigration. After a while, Mihály Révész, a social-democratic journalist in exile, had enough of living abroad and tried to get a job in Budapest. But when his left-wing friends found him a job as a manual worker, he turned it down, indignantly declaring ‘I won’t be a street sweeper’.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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04.12.2022
’Where are the Results of Our Christian Renaissance?’ The Fight Against Prostitution in Interwar Hungary
CULTURE & SOCIETY

’Where are the Results of Our Christian Renaissance?’ The Fight Against Prostitution in Interwar Hungary

The gap between reality and the striving for a pure Christian social life angered many conservative public figures in the Horthy era. In his diary, Prohászka wrote that for Hungarian men, ‘using a prostitute is like drinking a cup of coffee’.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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02.12.2022
Sore Losers or Dangerous Terrorists? The Left-Wing Emigration in 1921
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Sore Losers or Dangerous Terrorists? The Left-Wing Emigration in 1921

Although the official Hungarian propaganda constantly portrayed the ‘dark figures’ of the leftist emigration as plotting from abroad against Hungary, the surviving primary sources show a picture of ineffectual losers fighting among themselves.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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25.11.2022
War of Worlds: Clash of Generations in the Horthy era
CULTURE & SOCIETY

War of Worlds: Clash of Generations in the Horthy era

While generational differences pushed one group of young men into the camp of the contemporary nationalist right, that did not necessarily determine their later life choices. Generational experiences did define men to some extent—but it was political and moral choices that had the final say.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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24.11.2022
‘To Be Fully Eradicated’: Anti-Zionism during the 1919 Communist Terror in Hungary
CULTURE & SOCIETY

‘To Be Fully Eradicated’: Anti-Zionism during the 1919 Communist Terror in Hungary

According to an anti-Zionist pamphlet published during the Republic of Councils, Zionism ‘is nothing but a Jewish version of clerical reaction’ and was to be ‘fully eradicated.’

László Bernát Veszprémy
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21.11.2022
The Bishop and the Nazis — New Debate on the 1944 Activity of Cardinal Mindszenty
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Bishop and the Nazis — New Debate on the 1944 Activity of Cardinal Mindszenty

When Arrow Cross dictator Ferenc Szálasi took over on 15 October 1944, the new authorities required all civil servants to pledge allegiance to them. It was then that Mindszenty prepared a document entitled ‘Juramentum non’ (‘no oath’ in Latin.) The motto of the document was: ‘One cannot serve the [Arrow Cross] revolution and the Church at the same time.’

László Bernát Veszprémy
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16.11.2022
A Strange Anti-Nazi: The Curious Case of László Budaváry
CULTURE & SOCIETY

A Strange Anti-Nazi: The Curious Case of László Budaváry

Budaváry’s biography needs to be amended to also include his actions during the Holocaust, which distinguish him from other antisemitic politicians.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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15.11.2022
Hungarians in French Captivity after 1945
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Hungarians in French Captivity after 1945

The death rate in the French camps was horribly high: historian Tamás Stark estimates that 10,000 of the 40,000 Hungarian POWs died.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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14.11.2022
No, Israel Has Not Been Hijacked by ’Jewish Fascists’
CULTURE & SOCIETY

No, Israel Has Not Been Hijacked by ’Jewish Fascists’

The scaremongering about the deterioration of US-Israeli relations is odd, since the relationship started to worsen first after Barack Obama threw the Middle East under the bus for Iran, and now Joe Biden wants to restore a nuclear deal whose only apparent purpose is to give Iran easy and quick access to nuclear weapons.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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10.11.2022
Can We Borrow Ideas from Socalists? Notes on the Career and Views of István Weis
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Can We Borrow Ideas from Socalists? Notes on the Career and Views of István Weis

The approach of Weis to welfare, an attitude that in fact prevailed under the Teleki government, was not only sensitive to social issues, but also subscribed to the idea of an ‘anti-capitalist democracy’, and also to ‘progress’ and ‘social justice’.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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06.11.2022
The Widow and the Party
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Widow and the Party

Radnóti’s memory was soon hijacked by the Communist Party’s unsolicited worshippers. In a certain sense, of course, the poet was a natural choice for Communist memory politics.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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04.11.2022
‘Betrayers of Their Own Kin’? — The Jewish Police During the German Occupation – Part III
CULTURE & SOCIETY

‘Betrayers of Their Own Kin’? — The Jewish Police During the German Occupation – Part III

The public discourse of the time, spearheaded by the left-wing press, was bloodthirstily demanding the holding accountable of those responsible for the horrors of WWII, forming an opinion first and only asking questions afterwards.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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02.11.2022
March on Rome: One Hundred Years Since the Italian Fascist ‘Coup’
CURRENT

March on Rome: One Hundred Years Since the Italian Fascist ‘Coup’

In the wake of the victory of the Italian right in the recent elections, much has been written in the international press about the return of ’fascism’.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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20.10.2022
The Turán — Horthy’s Private Train
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Turán — Horthy’s Private Train

From the spring of 1920, the regent travelled around the country in his private train to observe the results of his national leadership in all the important settlements.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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19.10.2022
‘Betrayers of Their Own Kin’? — The Jewish Police During the German Occupation – Part II
CULTURE & SOCIETY

‘Betrayers of Their Own Kin’? — The Jewish Police During the German Occupation – Part II

It is important to point out that the anti-Semitic authorities were just as cruel to Jewish policemen as they were to any other Jew.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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17.10.2022
To Avoid ‘Bloodshed’ — How the Budapest Police Reacted to the German Occupation of 1944
CULTURE & SOCIETY

To Avoid ‘Bloodshed’ — How the Budapest Police Reacted to the German Occupation of 1944

It must have been clear to everyone that a decision had to be made about whether they wanted to be on the side of the government, collaborating with the German invaders, or whether they would resign or perhaps join the resistance.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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15.10.2022
‘Betrayers of Their Own Kin’? — The Jewish Police During the German Occupation – Part I
CULTURE & SOCIETY

‘Betrayers of Their Own Kin’? — The Jewish Police During the German Occupation – Part I

This article is the first in a series of pieces dealing with the Jewish police (or ‘ghetto police’) in Hungary during the Holocaust.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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12.10.2022
Was Horthy a True Simpleton? The Governor of Hungary Seen in Ambassadors’ Reports
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Was Horthy a True Simpleton? The Governor of Hungary Seen in Ambassadors’ Reports

The picture of Horthy that emerges from the contemporary reports of Western ambassadors is hardly that of a gullible politician, but rather of a shrewd, albeit immoral manipulator. 

László Bernát Veszprémy
—
10.10.2022
Without a Single Gunshot? – Examples of Armed Resistance during the German Occupation
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Without a Single Gunshot? – Examples of Armed Resistance during the German Occupation

Many examples of resistance were cited by the national committees after the Soviet occupation, the people’s prosecutors cases and the people’s tribunal cases, as well. These materials still need to be explored by Hungarian historians.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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30.09.2022
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