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Béla Király

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Hungarian officer, professor, and politician (1912-2009)

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Béla Király was a Hungarian army officer before, during, and after World War II. After the war, he was sentenced to death under the Soviet-allied regime, but was later released. After his release, he commanded the National Guard in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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1993Righteous Among the Nations
Guggenheim Fellowship

Politicians born in the 1910s 6

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Béla Király was a Hungarian army officer before, during, and after World War II. After the war, he was sentenced to death under the Soviet-allied regime, but was later released. After his release, he commanded the National Guard in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He then fled to the United States, where he became an academic historian. He returned to Hungary after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and was elected a member of Hungarian Parliament.

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deceased
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Lived 1912 to 2009 · aged 97
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