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Horthy

American  
[hawr-tee] / ˈhɔr ti /

noun

  1. Miklós von Nagybánya 1863–1957, Hungarian admiral: regent of Hungary 1920–44.


Horthy British  
/ ˈhorti /

noun

  1. Miklós (ˈmikloːʃ), full name Horthy de Nagybánya. 1868–1957, Hungarian admiral: suppressed Kun's Communist republic (1919); regent of Hungary (1920–44)

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Its main mission is to provide revisionist interpretations of 20th-century Hungarian history — including the reign of Miklos Horthy, the autocrat who led Hungary before and during the Second World War.

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2018

Miklos Horthy, who led Hungary from 1920 to 1944 and orchestrated the country’s World War II alliance with Nazi Germany, and a poster saying, “Radical Change.”

From Slate Oct. 3, 2014

Schiff cites the statue just erected in the centre of Budapest of Admiral Miklos Horthy, Hungary's wartime leader.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2013

In Hungary in 1919, after a brief Communist regime, military forces and wealthy landowners joined to make Admiral Miklós Horthy the first European postwar dictator.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

Mass Deportations On March 17, 1944, Regent Horthy was "invited" to a conference with Hitler, who informed him of the imminent occupation of Hungary by German troops.

From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus

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