After the communist regime was crushed in August 1919, conservatives under the leadership of Admiral Miklós Horthy took control of the nation.
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Charles Ardai, an American entrepreneur, novelist and book publisher, recounted in an Oct. 2008 National Public Radio interview an episode recalled by his mother, who survived the Holocaust in Hungary.
His father was deportated by the Arrow Cross Party's men because of his participation in the rebel movements.
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As part of this operation, Miklós Jr. was kidnapped by German commandos (led by Otto Skorzeny) and threatened with death unless his father surrendered and agreed to appoint a new government of the Arrow Cross Party.