Ferenc Szombathelyi

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Ferenc Szombathelyi (born May 17, 1887 in Győr, died November 4, 1946 in Pétervárad) is a Lieutenant General of the Hungarian Army.

From 1933 on the staff posts in the general staff and commander of the Hungarian army. In the years 1936-1938 the commander of the military Academy of Empress Ludwika. Between 1939 and 1941, commander of the 8th Hungarian Corps. After German assault on the USSR (June 22, 1941), the commander of the Carpathian Group (Kárpát Csoport) fighting on the German side, which included mechanized Hungarian troops. From September 1941 to 1944 the Chief of General Staff of the Hungarian Army. After the disclosure of the negotiations led by the Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy, German troops entered Hungary and Szombathelyi in April 1944 and was placed under house arrest. After the capture of power in Hungary by Fascist arrows in October 1944, he was arrested.

After the end of the war, detained by American troops in Germany, then as a war criminal deported to Hungary, was found responsible for the Serbian massacre in Vojvodina in January 1942, where for three days soldiers of the Hungarian army murdered 3,000. (according to Hungarian sources) to 10 thousand. people (according to Yugoslav sources). During the trial in Budapest, May 22, 1946, he was sentenced to life imprisonment (two other Hungarian generals, Ferenc Cheydner and József Grassy were sentenced to death). The Yugoslav Communist government also wanted to judge the Hungarian generals as a massacre of the population in Vojvodina. Szombathelyi, Chechnya, and Grassy were given to the Yugoslavs, provided that Szombathelyi was not sentenced to more severe punishment than life imprisonment. Still, in the next show trial, the death penalty was imposed by shooting. Finally, on November 4, 1946, in the town of Petrovaradin (Pétervárad) in Vojvodina, General Szombathelyi was executed by pushing. Generals Cheydner and Grassy were hanged. The details of Szombathelyi's execution were revealed only in 1991 by the Hungarian writer Tibor Cseres in the book "Revenge in the Bucket." Authoritative control (person):

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