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Döme Sztójay: Hungary's Prime Minister Who Deported 440,000 Jews to Nazi Camps
Döme Sztójay was the pro-Nazi Hungarian prime minister whose government helped deport more than 440,000 Jews to Auschwitz in just a few months during the Holocaust. Born Dimitrije Stojaković in 1883, he rose through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian military and later served as Hungary’s ambassador to Nazi Germany, where he built deep ties with the Third Reich. By the early 1940s, Sztójay was one of Berlin’s most reliable allies in Budapest.
When German forces occupied Hungary on 19 March 1944 under Operation Margarethe, Adolf Hitler demanded that Regent Miklós Horthy appoint a prime minister…
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