Ferenc Szálasi

Ferenc Szálasi (6 January 1897 – 12 March 1946) was the leader of the fascist Arrow Cross Party – Hungarist Movement, the "Leader of the Nation" (Nemzetvezető), being both Head of State and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary's "Government of National Unity" (Nemzeti Összefogás Kormánya) for the final six months of Hungary's participation in World War II, after Germany occupied Hungary and removed Miklos Horthy by force. During his brief rule, Szálasi's men murdered 10,000–15,000 Jews. After the war, he was executed after a trial by the Hungarian court for crimes against the state committed during World War II.

Ferenc Szálasi in The Hot War
While Ferenc Szálasi had been dead for five years when World War III broke out, he and the Arrow Cross Party cast a long posthumous shadow on the Hungarian People's Republic.

When Jewish soldier Isztvan Szolovits was offered a promotion to lance corporal by his sergeant, Gergely, Szolovits realized that Gergely, who'd served under Miklos Horthy and Ferenc Szálasi would have just as happily put Szolovits on a train to a camp during the latter's rule. Now, oddly enough, Geregly was serving the communists.