ABSTRACT
In early 1920, Deputy Lieutenant-Colonel Pronay, the commander of the most murderous of the White paramilitary groups, had information collected about his officers’ experiences during the Council Republic. The militia leader was interested in whether anyone in his unit and among his officers’ family members had been killed, tortured or otherwise mistreated during Communist rule. Almost a hundred years after the events, there is no consensus among historians on the number of people killed during the counterrevolution between 1919 and 1924, and how many of these were Jews. In April 1920, a British labor delegation, made up of representatives from the major trade unions and the Labor Party, visited the Hungarian capital to look into the White Terror. The action-reaction force pair paradigm implies a complete overlap in the spatial dimension and intensity of the Red and White Terrors.
