Berlin hosted a 1956 commemoration event where Minister of Human Capacities Zoltan Balog thanked the Germans and Germany for the assistance they provided to Hungarian refugees in 1956.
“Everyone gave what they could”, Mr Balog thanking people's support and solidarity, everyone's from factory workers and university students to artists.
“Some 22000 people were given prison sentences until the end of 1961, 229 people were executed and the age for the death penalty was lowered to 16. 13000 people were interned and 180000 people fled the country. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, the United States and Australia received tens of thousands of them”, he added.
