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The Women of the Arrow Cross Party

Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War

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  1. Andrea Pető

    1. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

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  • Analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility
  • Examines why and how far-right women in general and among them several Second World War perpetrators were made 'invisible' by their fellow Arrow Cross Party members
  • Argues that the legacy of these women remained alive throughout the years of state socialism, and has actively contributed to the recent insurgence of far-right politics in Hungary

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrea PetÅ‘
    Pages 1-18

  3. Invisible Party Members

    • Andrea PetÅ‘
    Pages 19-35

  4. Invisible Political Actors

    • Andrea PetÅ‘
    Pages 37-60

  5. Invisible Defendants

    • Andrea PetÅ‘
    Pages 61-71

  6. Invisibility on Photographs

    • Andrea PetÅ‘
    Pages 73-88

  7. Conclusions

    • Andrea PetÅ‘
    Pages 89-93

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 95-96
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About this book

This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility. It examines why and how far-right women in general and among them several Second World War perpetrators were made invisible by their fellow Arrow Cross Party members in the 1930s and during the war (1939-1945), and later by the Hungarian people’s tribunals responsible for the purge of those guilty of war crimes (1945-1949). It argues that because of their ‘invisibilization’ the legacy of these women could remain alive throughout the years of state socialism and that, furthermore, this legacy has actively contributed to the recent insurgence of far-right politics in Hungary. This book therefore analyses how the invisibility of Second World War perpetrators is connected to  twenty-first century memory politics and the present-day resurgence of far-right movements.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

    Andrea Pető

About the author

Andrea Pető is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her previous publications include six monographs and thirty-one edited volumes, while her works on gender, politics, the Holocaust and war have been translated into twenty-three languages. She was awarded the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Women of the Arrow Cross Party

  • Book Subtitle: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War

  • Authors: Andrea PetÅ‘

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51225-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51224-8Published: 04 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51227-9Published: 04 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51225-5Published: 03 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 96

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Germany and Central Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Memory Studies, Women's Studies

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