The Law of War

Crimes Perpetrated by Hungary
Incident
Type of
crime
Persons responsible
Notes
Novi Sad massacre
Crimes
against
humanity
After the war, most of the perpetrators
were convicted by the People's Tribunal.
The leaders of the massacre, Ferenc
Feketehalmy-Czeydner, József
Grassyand Márton Zöldy were sentenced
to death and later extradited to
Yugoslavia, together with Ferenc
Szombathelyi, Lajos Gaál, Miklós
Nagy, Ferenc Bajor, Ernő Bajsay-
Bauer and Pál Perepatics. After a trial at
Novi Sad, all sentenced to death and
executed.
4,211 civilians (2,842
Serbs, 1,250 Jews, 64
Roma, 31 Rusyns, 13
Russians and 11 ethnic
Hungarians) rounded up
and killed by Hungarian
troops in reprisal for
resistance activities.
Kamianets-
Podilskyimassacre
Crimes
against
humanity;
Crime
Genocide
of
After the war, the perpetrator of the
massacre, Friedrich Jeckeln was
sentenced to death and executed in the
Soviet Union.
14000-16000 Jews were
deported by Hungarian
troops to Kamianets-
Podilskyi to be executed
by SS troops. Part of the
first large-scale mass
murder in pursuit of the
"Final Solution".
Sarmasumassacre
Crimes
against
humanity
The People's Tribunal at Cluj sentenced to
death 7 Hungarian officer in absentia, two
local Hungarian were sentenced to
imprisonment.
Torture and killing of 126
Jews by Hungarian
troops in the village of
Sarmasu.
Treznea massacre
Crimes
against
humanity
The People's Tribunal at Cluj sentenced to
death Ferenc Bay in absentia, 3 local
Hungarian were sentenced to
imprisonment, 2 person were acquitted.
93 to 236 Romanian and
Jewish civilians
(depending on sources)
executed as reprisal for
alleged attacks from
locals on the Hungarian
troops.
Ip massacre
Crimes
against
humanity
A Hungarian officer was sentenced to
death by the People's Tribunal at Cluj in
absentia, 13 local Hungarians were
sentenced to imprisonment, 2 person
were acquitted.
150 Romanian civilians
executed by Hungarian
rogue troops and
paramilitary formations
as reprisal for the death
of two Hungarian
soldiers in an explosion.
Hegyeshalom
death march
Crimes
against
humanity;
Crime
genocide
of
After the war most of the responsibles
were sentenced by the Hungarian
people's tribunals, including the
whole Szálasi-government
About 10,000 Budapest
Jews died as a result of
exhaustion and
executions while
marching toward
Hegyeshalom at the
Austrian border.
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