Row over Nazi history consumes Hungary

[Marcus]

Hungary has been gripped by an intense public debate on the role of the country during World War Two.
A government proposal for a monument commemorating the German occupation of March 1944, has prompted critics to accuse it of trying to rewrite history, and deflect attention from Hungary's role as an ally of Germany up until that point, and its role in the Holocaust.
The proposal was announced just a day after an election was called for 6 April - leading some to accuse the governing conservative Fidesz party of stoking nationalism in order to see off the challenge from the far-right Jobbik party.
Hungary has been gripped by an intense public debate on the role of the country during World War Two.
A government proposal for a monument commemorating the German occupation of March 1944, has prompted critics to accuse it of trying to rewrite history, and deflect attention from Hungary's role as an ally of Germany up until that point, and its role in the Holocaust.
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A group of 26 leading Hungarian historians has issued an open letter - published on the Galamus news and opinion website - in which they protested against the plan, saying that: "The memorial falsifies an important period of our history, and relativises the Holocaust in Hungary."
One of the signatories to the petition is the historian Krisztian Ungvary, an expert on World War Two who earlier in the week published an article on the news website hvg.hu in which he lambasted those who he said were "wasting public funds" in an effort to "whitewash" Hungary's war-time history.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25864058

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[Dr Eisvogel]

Hungary has been gripped by an intense public debate on the role of the country during World War Two.
A government proposal for a monument commemorating the German occupation of March 1944, has prompted critics to accuse it of trying to rewrite history, and deflect attention from Hungary's role as an ally of Germany up until that point, and its role in the Holocaust.

A government proposal for a monument commemorating the German occupation of March 1944, has prompted critics to accuse it of trying to rewrite history, and deflect attention from Hungary's role as an ally of Germany up until that point, and its role in the Holocaust.
[...]
A group of 26 leading Hungarian historians has issued an open letter - published on the Galamus news and opinion website - in which they protested against the plan, saying that: "The memorial falsifies an important period of our history, and relativises the Holocaust in Hungary."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25864058

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The facts:

The memorial, to be built in Budapest, will depict a Germanic eagle descending on the Angel Gabriel, a Hungarian symbol. It will bear inscriptions reading “German occupation of Hungary, March 19, 1944” and “To the memory of all victims.”

The whole article: http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewis ... ial-339040

I am unable to find the monument proposal photographs.