József Gera (24 October 1896 – 12 March 1946) was a Hungarian

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and

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of the

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. He fought in the

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and he was honoured. After the war he practised as a

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Makó Makó (, , Makowe, or , ) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 21,913 people and it has an area of , of which is arable land. Makó is the fourth-larges ...

. He had been a member of the Arrow Cross Party - Hungarist Movement since 1939. From 1944 he was responsible for the organizing of the party. Gera was elected to a member of the Regent Council, replacing

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, in March 1945. After the

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he was sentenced to death by the People's Tribunal in

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. He was executed on 12 March 1946, along with

Ferenc Szálasi Ferenc Szálasi (; 6 January 1897 – 12 March 1946) was a Hungarian military officer, politician, Nazi sympathizer and founder of the far-right Arrow Cross Party who List of prime ministers of Hungary, headed the government of Hungary duri ...

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and

Károly Beregfy Károly Beregfy (12 February 1888 – 12 March 1946) was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence in the 1944–45 Arrow Cross Party government. He was born as Károly Berger in Cservenka (Crvenka). He ...

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
niif.hu; accessed 24 January 2018. * ''Karsai Elek-Karsai László: A Szálasi per'', Reform Kiadó, 1988. 1896 births 1946 deaths Arrow Cross Party politicians Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Hungarian Nazis executed for war crimes Hungarian people of World War II Hungarian pediatricians Holocaust perpetrators in Hungary People executed by Hungary by hanging {{Hungary-politician-stub People from Makó Romani genocide perpetrators