- Budapest, 2025 – Eighty years after the Second World War, there are still those who glorify the Nazi empire responsible for the deaths of tens of millions people. International Nazi rock concerts held in secret places celebrate the Third Reich.
The hundreds of members of the Arrow Cross “legiohungaria” organize secretly to line up in uniform for a photo somewhere in a public place.
And an international group of several thousand people march publicly on a ‘memorial hike’ through the hills of Buda, cheering for the Nazi ‘heroes’, many of them in imperial uniforms.
The annual parade of local fascists reinforced by import nazis has been held every February for decades. The occasion is a failed military operation. On 11 February 1945, after their futile resistance had blown the city to pieces, German and Hungarian fascist troops attempted to escape from the surrounded Buda Castle by breaking out. The vast majority perished there, about 20,000 of them were killed just within a few hours. They call that ‘the day of honour’ – such is the Nazis’ honour: mass death and destruction.
Since 1997, today’s Nazis have often been able to organise parades in uniform, but due to the growing anti-fascist resistance they cannot do it any longer. They started to organise a memorial hike to avoid the authorities’ ban. The organisers of the Nazi memorial hike – the “breakout hike” – are linked to the highest circles of the Hungarian government. The companies of the main organisers run their media (propaganda) companies receiving millions of euros in state contracts, while the hike itself also receives direct state support. The state’s politics of memory is closely linked to Nazi historical negationism.
If you are against the glorification of the Nazis, if you don’t want to see Nazi soldiers marching in the streets, then come and protest against the resurgence of fascism.
No chance for fascism!
8 February 15.00 Budapest, Széll Kálmán (Moszkva) Square.
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