Controversial WWII monument in Budapest will be postponed and renamed
The Hungarian government has announced that the installation of a controversial monument which critics say glosses over the country’s active role in the Holocaust will be postponed until after the general election.
Hungary was a close ally of Hitler Germany during World War II, and Hungarian authorities were complicit in sending hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to the death camps. The planned monument depicts Hungary as an angel being attacked by a German eagle, which critics say absolves Hungarians of their role in sending some 450,000 Jews to their deaths.
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