The country’s leaders thought they could restore the nation’s lost glory through alliance with Hitler. By 1945, Budapest lay in ruins and 550,000 Hungarian Jews were dead.
Christian Caryl
Christian Caryl is the author of Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. He has worked as an Opinions editor at The Washington Post, a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, and an editor and columnist at Foreign Policy.
