Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Franz Anton BASCH, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar Rao


FRANZ ANTON BASCH, HUNGARIAN GERMAN, WW II, POLITICIAN

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Dr K Prabhakar Rao said...

FRANZ ANTON BASCH..

German national who played active politics in hungary aiding Nazis.He was born at Zurich and was educated at Budapest and Germany.

From 1930, he began to express extreme nationalist propaganda and became a follower of Nazism. In 1934 he resigned his position because he affronted the Hungarian nation with his ideas. In 1938 he founded the Racial Union Of Germans In Hungary (the Volksbund or VDU) and became its chairman, organizing it along Nazi lines with the financial backing of the Third Reich. In 1939, Basch took the title Volksgruppenfueherer (Racial Group Leader) of the ethnic Germans in Hungary. In 1940 Hitler appointed him the leader of Germans in Hungary (the Danube Swabians and the Transylvanian Saxons).In the first two enlistment periods of ethnic Germans in Hungary in 1942 and 1943, Franz Basch, as head of the VDU, actively participated and was responsible for enlisting over 40,000 Hungarian citizens in the Waffen-SS for Nazi Germany.At the closing years of war he escaped to Germany. but later after war he was handed over to Hungary where he was tried by people's tribunal, sentenced to death and was hanged on 27 April , 1946,