Nobody is responsible for what their grandparents did, but: this man is mayor of Budapest's 12th District, where a controversial memorial to "war victims" lists the name of his grandpa, while omitting the names of the 200+ Jews murdered nearby by said grandpa and his friends. https://twitter.com/almodozo/status/1355210572518842369
Now, listing the names of Jewish victims would perhaps just make the insult to their memory even worse, given that the memorial is in the shape of the turul bird, a symbol used by right-wing extremists in the interwar period and today.
In the interwar period the Turul Association used to raid universities and beat up students they deemed Jewish, because they thought Jews should be banned from attending university. (Their numbers were already restricted.)
No wonder the "memorial" has mainly become a site of peregrination for today's Nazis.

But hey, they will now remove the names and rename it as a WWI memorial, so I guess it will all be fixed.
In January 1945, Hungarian Nazis - the Arrow Cross - committed three mass murders in the streets near this memorial. There was a Jewish hospital, a sanatorium and a home for elderly nearby. They killed everyone there. About 200 people all in all, but that doesn't...
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