For the past 20 years, the neo-Nazi group Blood&Honor has been gathering thousands of neo-Nazis from all over Europe on February 11 for a “Day of Honor” in Hungary. The occasion is the attempt by Hitler’s soldiers, along with their Hungarian allies, to break out of Soviet-encircled Budapest and return to Nazi Germany. Of the 28,000 soldiers of the Wehrmacht, SS and Hungarian allies, only a few hundred broke through. Most were killed or captured by the Red Army.
Now neo-Nazis lead a 60km march every year from Budapest to the breakthrough lines with sad faces and memories of SS veterans who died in WWII.
Viktor Orbán’s far-right Hungarian government doesn’t really interfere with the march, and according to some reports directly assists some far-right groups in rewriting history. The organization officially organizing the march received about 2,700 euros from the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources, and the organizers themselves produced several documentaries for Hungarian state channels, including one about the glory of Hungarian troops during World War II.
Neo-Nazis at the “Day of Honor” march in Hungary
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