"[Horthy] reproached me for the many Jewish corpses found in the various parts of the country, especially in the Transdanubia. This, he emphasized, gave the foreign press extra ammunitions against us. He told me that we should stop harassing small Jews; instead, we should kill some big (Kun government) Jews such as Somogyi or Vazsonyi – these people deserve punishment much more... in vain, I tried to convince him that the liberal papers would be against us anyway, and it did not matter that we killed only one Jew or we killed them all..."
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Anti-communistsGovernment ministersDiplomatsHeads of state from HungaryMilitary leaders from Hungary
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Pál Prónay, as quoted in Agnes Szabo and Ervin Pamlenyi, eds. (1963): A hatarban a halal kaszal: Fejezetek Prónay Pal feljegyzeseibol, pp. 160-131
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