Justice can only be served through understanding the past with a national responsibility felt in unity over each other, Varga said at the event organised by the local council of Obuda-Bekasmegyer, in northern Budapest, the German local government and the Braunhaxler Association.

At the end of World War II millions of people of German origin were taken to labour camps in the Soviet Union, several hundred thousand of them from Hungary, Varga said, calling on everyone to remember the 20th century history of Hungary and eastern Europe in order to „free ourselves of the burdens of history”.

MTI