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supported by the accounts of several witnesses. The motivation of the 4 km detour of the Hungarian troops from the rest of the Hungarian Army is still a point of contention, as it could not have been as a routine occupation maneuver. Most evidence points towards the local noble Ferenc Bay who lost a large part of his estates to peasants in the 1920s, as most of the violence was directed towards the peasants living on his former estate.
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Some Hungarian historians claim that the killings came in retaliation after the Hungarian troops were fired upon by inhabitants, allegedly incited by the local Romanian Orthodox priest. These claims are both supported (for instance: colonel Károly Ákosi and the on-site committee of inquiry) and not
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church. The sources recorded that 87 Romanians and 6 Jews were killed, including the local Orthodox priest, Traian Costea, who was burned in his church, and the Romanian local teacher with his wife, Lazăr and Aurelia Cosma (the parents of the Romanian musicologist
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route to the "Măgura" area of the commune, which formerly belonged to Francisc Bay. The Hungarian troops entered the village at noon, under unclear circumstances fired at the locals, killing many of them and partially destroying the
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By the accounts of some witnesses, not all soldiers were wearing full uniform and some of them were drunk. Also, some villagers claim to have recognised some of the young men as locals from
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sentenced in this case and other war crimes 481 people, out of which 100 (e.g., Ferenc Bay) to death and 163 to life imprisonment. However, most of them were
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Kádár, Gyula: A Ludovikától Sopronkőhidáig, Tények és tanúk sorozat, Magvető Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1978. ( 13. chapter, pp. 354–355.
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On that day, instigated by the former landlord Francisc (or Ferenc) Bay, the 22nd Hungarian Border Guards Battalion "
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Ablonczy (2011): Ablonczy Balázs. A visszatért Erdély 1940–1944 (magyar nyelven). Budapest: Jaffa Kiadó (2011).
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According to some historians, several Hungarian inhabitants of the village tried to stop the
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Ip și Trăznea: atrocități maghiare și acțiune diplomatică românească: studiu și documente
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Teroarea horthysto-fascistă în nord-vestul României (septembrie 1940 – octombrie 1944)
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Fătu, Mihai; Mușat, Mircea; Ardeleanu, Ion; Arimia, Vasile; et al. (1985).
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1940 killing of Romanian civilians by Hungarian forces in Transylvania
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Monument in memory of the victims of the Treznea massacre
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on 9 September 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the
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