Memories of Exile 1941-1945: Competing Hungarian Émigré Organizations in America

• In Event: Memory and Exile: World War II and Cold War, Czechoslovak and Hungarian Examples

Abstract

The two competing émigré perspectives and their organizations that comprise this paper —the Council of Ministers and its real and philosophical opposition led by Rustem Vámbéry—were officially organized in the West in 1944. However, their planning stages began years earlier by the early wave of emigres from German dominated Hungary. It is particularly important to examine the formation of these groups as scholarly literature about the activities of Hungarian exiles 1944-1945 period is scarce and authoritative archival material has been virtually non-existent. As we now have greater access to archival sources we may form a better picture as to why these organizations were initiated during the closing years of World War II and what their post war missions were.

Author

• Katalin Kádár-Lynn, Helena History Press