Döme Sztójay (January 5, 1883–August 22, 1946) was a fascist politician in Hungary during World War II. In March 1944, when German troops occupied Hungary, they forced regent Miklós Horthy to appoint Sztójay (then ambassador to Berlin) as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Sztójay refused to accept Horthy's authority and carried out massive persecutions of Jews, which within two months had escalated to deportations of Jews to concentration camps. In August 1944, Horthy's forces, armed with one tank, forced the stoppage of the deportations and the resignation of Sztójay's government. Within two months, Horthy had been deposed by the Nazis, but Sztójay was not reappointed Prime Minister. In the beginning of 1945, the Nazis were in turn driven out by the Communists. In 1946, Sztójay and other Hungarian politicians were executed by the new Communist government.
Horthy was permitted to remain Regent, but Kallay was dismissed and the Germans installed General DomeSztojay, who had previously served as Hungarian minister to Berlin and was fanatically pro-German, as prime minister.
Sztojay committed Hungary to continuing the war effort and cooperated with the Germans in their efforts to deport the Hungarian Jews.
In August, he dismissed the Sztojay government and resumed efforts to reach an armistice, this time with the Soviet Union whose army was on Hungary's borders.
The Roman development in dome construction culminated in the pantheon Pantheon at Rome was built by Agrippa in 27 B.C., destroyed, and rebuilt in the 2d cent.
Between pendentive and dome a circular drum usually was interposed, serving to give greater elevation and external importance as well as a space for the introduction of windows.
In the United States the dome of the Massachusetts state capitol, designed (1795) by Charles Bulfinch, established the dome as a distinctive feature for numerous later state capitols as well as for the national Capitol at Washington, D. The dome of the latter, however, is of cast iron instead of masonry.
Feeds |
Contact