Government of National Unity (Hungary)
Government of National Unity | |||||||||||
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| 1944–1945 | |||||||||||
| Motto: Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae (Latin) ("Kingdom of Mary, the Patron of Hungary") | |||||||||||
| Anthem: Himnusz (English: "Hymn") Ébredj Magyar (English: "Wake up, Hungarian!") | |||||||||||
| Seal of Hungary (1945): | |||||||||||
| Status | Puppet government of Nazi Germany | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Hungarian | ||||||||||
| Religion | |||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Hungarian | ||||||||||
| Government | Hungarist totalitarian government under Nazi administration | ||||||||||
| Leader of the Nation | |||||||||||
• 1944–1945 | Ferenc Szálasi | ||||||||||
| Speakers of the Provisional National Assembly | |||||||||||
• 1944 | István Vásáry | ||||||||||
• 1944–1945 | Béla Zsedényi | ||||||||||
• 1945 | Vacant | ||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||
• 1944–1945 | Ferenc Szálasi | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Diet | ||||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||||
| 15 October 1944 | |||||||||||
• Government formed | 16 October 1944 | ||||||||||
• Government fled to Germany | 28–29 March 1945 | ||||||||||
• End of German occupation of Hungary | 4 April 1945 | ||||||||||
• Capture of Szálasi | 6 May 1945 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 7 May 1945 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Hungarian Pengő | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Hungary | ||||||||||
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The Government of National Unity was a Nazi-backed puppet government of Hungary, which ruled the German-occupied Kingdom of Hungary during World War II in Eastern Europe. After the joint coup d’état with which the Nazis and the Arrow Cross Party overthrew the government of the Regent of Hungary, Miklós Horthy (r. 1920–1944), the Arrow Cross Party established the coalition Government of National Unity (Nemzeti Összefogás Kormánya) on 16 October 1944.
As the national government, the Arrow Cross Party installed Ferenc Szálasi as the prime minister of the Government of National Unity and as the Leader of the Nation, the head of state of Hungary. As a wartime ally of Nazi Germany, Prime Minister Szálasi's government readily executed and realised the Holocaust in Hungary (1941–1945); thus, in seven months, the Arrow Cross regime killed between 10,000 and 15,000 Hungarian Jews in the country, and deported 80,000 Jewish women, children, and old people for killing at the Auschwitz concentration camp.