Report to Hungarian government about Law about deportations, May 1942.Ivan Kamenec (2000), Hľadanie a blúdenie v dejinách language: Slovak, chapter: Osobnosť Jánosa Esterházyho a jej kontroverzné publikácie, page: 360, place: Bratislava, publisher: Kalligram, ISBN: 80-7149-353-8, ref: harv
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Since my early childhood, I have always stood on anti-Jewish position and I will remain antisemitic. However, it does not mean that I will contribute by my voting to the law which is against all God and human laws. Hungarians are national minority in Slovakia and it is impossible to adopt and accept such law which gave majority right to deport minority. I know that also several Slovak deputies do not agree with this law, but they do not have courage to be against it because of party discipline. As a representative of the Hungarians here, I state it, and please acknowledge this, that I don't vote in favour of the proposal because as a Hungarian, a Christian and a Catholic I believe that this is against God and humanity.

— János Esterházy

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Since my early childhood, I have always stood on anti-Jewish position and I will remain antisemitic. However, it does not mean that I will contribute by my voting to the law which is against all God and human laws. Hungarians are national minority in Slovakia and it is impossible to adopt and accept such law which gave majority right to deport minority. I know that also several Slovak deputies do not agree with this law, but they do not have courage to be against it because of party discipline. As a representative of the Hungarians here, I state it, and please acknowledge this, that I don't vote in favour of the proposal because as a Hungarian, a Christian and a Catholic I believe that this is against God and humanity." in the context of "Report to Hungarian government about Law about deportations, May 1942.Ivan Kamenec (2000), Hľadanie a blúdenie v dejinách language: Slovak, chapter: Osobnosť Jánosa Esterházyho a jej kontroverzné publikácie, page: 360, place: Bratislava, publisher: Kalligram, ISBN: 80-7149-353-8, ref: harv" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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János Esterházy

About János Esterházy

János Esterházy (14 March 1901 – 8 March 1957) was a prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in the mid-war Czechoslovakia and later in the First Slovak Republic. Member of the Czechoslovak parliament and the Slovak Assembly. After the World War II he was illegally deported to the Soviet Union and sentenced in absence to death by the National Court in Bratislava for the treason of the state, collaboration with enemy, breaking Czechoslovakia and his participation on anti-democratic regime as a deputy of the Slovak Assembly. The sentence was not executed because of presidential pardon after his return to Czechoslovakia from Soviet Union.