April 05, 2019 Friday
Bedtime Story
Enactment of Series of Anti-Jewish Laws under Regent Horthy and PM Teleki
The number of actors in theaters,
physicians in hospitals, lawyers in law firms and engineers in any private
company were curtailed to a mere 6% of the total employees.
This was further compounded by yet another sub
section of the law that restricted any private company from employing more than
12% Jews.
When this second law came into force (and
unlike in India where laws are simply unimplementable due to sheer
overpopulation with law enforcing officers either getting deluged with cases of
violations or simple overlooking their duty of implementation of law
enforcement on accepting bribes small European nations are far more effective)
some 250,000 Hungarian Jews immediately lost their income.
Not only did they lose their income and
voice in the press or any form of media very soon they lost their voting right
too.
After the passage of the second law and by
the end of 1939 in the entire Hungary a paltry and handful of 38 privileged
Jews were left with the right to vote.
If you thought that the degradation of an
entire race or religion was complete and total you would be surprised for on
August 08, 1941 the so-called “Third Jewish Law” came into force.
This law absolutely prohibited
intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews now making its way into the personal
lives of all the Hungarian citizens.
Even a playful or casual sexual encounter
of any Hungarian with a Hungarian Jew was criminalized.
The “Third Jewish Law” had in one of its
sections a law that went something like this: A Jewish man who had a
non-marital sex with a “decent non-Jewish woman resident in Hungary” would be
sentenced to three years in prison.
The law, of course was biased, penalizing
only the Jewish partner in this “sexual misconduct”.
I do not know but am almost certain that
Hungarian courts of those days would swiftly end such cases with a guilty
verdict on the flimsiest of excuses as the judges like all other members of the
society were as guilty as the leaders such as Miklos Horthy in harboring
anti-Semitic sentiments.
In short, for the entire society and
thereby the judiciary as well, a Jew was guilty unless proven otherwise and the
farcical trial would proceed as if the accused Jew owned the burden of innocence
rather the prosecutor the burden of proof.
In a letter that the Regent wrote to his
Prime Minister Count Pal Teleki (a learned man and a member of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences) regarding his opinion of Jews that is only a reflection of
the general sentiment of the Hungarian population (and perhaps Europe as a
whole much akin to the kind of sentiment today’s world has for Moslems):
“As regards the Jewish problem, I have been
an anti-Semite throughout my life (many right-wing Hindus and Christians today
would identify with this sentiment and have the very similar feelings towards
Moslems today).
I have never had contact with the Jews
(this is not surprising for if you work or especially trade with the races that
you fear or dislike you will realize that their general characteristics are no
different from that of yours).”
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