Bárdossy LászlóBárdossy, former Hungarian prime minister during World War II, was in the prison courtyard facing a brick wall with sandbags to prevent ricochets. Slenderly built and upright, he faced the firing squad with restraint. God protect Hungary from these outlaws," he said as the bodies of the gunmen burst from the sandbags. After he was shot, a priest ran up to him and blessed his soul.
On November 20, 1940, the Kingdom of Hungary joined the Axis powers; the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which had joined the Axis powers on March 25, became an anti-German kingdom in a coup d'etat on March 27. Prime Minister Teleki Paar, who was asked by Nazi Germany for the right of passage of the Kingdom of Bungary, committed suicide on April 3. In his suicide note, Teleki stated that Hungary would be the most abominable kingdom to become a robbery of corpses. Immediately afterwards, the right-wing Baldossi László converted to a pro-German government when he was appointed prime minister by the regent, Admiral Nicholas Holty, from April 1941 to March 7, 1942. The Axis powers invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the Nazi German invasion from April 6 to April 17, 1941. On December 15, Prime Minister Bar-Dossi László declared war on the United States as well.
On December 15, Prime Minister Bar-Dossi László declared war on the U.S. as well. Bar-Dossi László pursued a pro-German policy in order to regain and expand the territory lost under the Treaty of Trianon, and supported the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, bringing Hungary into the war. In August 1941, the Third Jewish Law deprived Hungarian Jews of their economic, social, and other fundamental rights. It led to the enactment of anti-Communist and anti-Semitic laws. It deported non-Hungarians from the territories it occupied in Yugoslavia and massacred thousands of Jews. After the end of World War II, he was found guilty of war crimes and nationalism by the People's Court in Budapest and sentenced to death; he was executed by firing squad on January 10, 1946.
