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White Terror (Hungary)
| Part of Hungary in the interwar period | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Execution_in_Tab.png) A hanging in Tab in 1920. | |
| Native name | Fehér Terror |
|---|---|
| Time | 1919–1921 |
| Perpetrator | National army of Hungary |
| Deaths | 1,500–4,000[1] |
The White Terror (Hungarian: Fehér Terror) was a two-year period (1919–1921) of repressive violence in Hungary by counter-revolutionary soldiers, carried out to destroy any supporters of Hungary's short-lived Soviet republic and its Red Terror.[2][3] Tens of thousands were imprisoned without trial, and as many as 1,000 people were killed. Furthermore, between 1,250 and 2,500 Jews, who were targeted in particular, were killed and tens of thousands more injured between 1919 and 1921. Assuming all Jews were traitors and communists, far-right militias raped, robbed, and massacred them.[4]
- ^ Gerwarth, Robert (2008). "The Central European Counter-Revolution: Paramilitary Violence in Germany, Austria and Hungary after the Great War". Past & Present (200): 176. ISSN 0031-2746.
- ^ Randolph L. Braham (2002). The Nazis' Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary. Wayne State University Press. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-8143-3095-1.
- ^ Spencer Tucker; Laura Matysek Wood (1996). The European powers in the First World War: an encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 349–350. ISBN 978-0-8153-0399-2.
- ^ Rozenblit, Marsha L. (December 2021). "The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919–1921. By Béla Bodó. Mass Violence in Modern History. London: Routledge, 2019. xxv, 333 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Figures. Maps. $124.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 80 (4): 916–917. doi:10.1017/slr.2022.32. ISSN 0037-6779.
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