The Brigade of the Great Hungarian Plain The crimes of the most notorious military detachment during the wave of paramilitary violence called the Hungarian White Terror in 1919–1921, and the further life of a radical right-wing paramilitary commander

In 1919–1920s, paramilitary violence was an almost natural phenomenon in Hungary, like many other countries of Central Europe. After the dissolution Austro-Hungarian Empire new right-wing government, establishing its power with help Entente powers, could difficulty rule quasi anarchistic conditions. 1919–1921, Hungary terrorized by irregular military formations that were formally part National Army, and radical soldiers committed serious crimes frequently anti-Semitic motivations. One most notorious detachment organised young first lieutenant Air Force Iván Héjjas, who, his armed militiamen, abusing conditions due to civil war, build up own private state town Kecskemét neighbourhood, Great Hungarian Plain. His lasted for two years, subordinates murdered and/or robbed hundreds people, mainly Jewish origin, but later they given amnesty. Héjjas became influential politician political scene period between world wars. The present research article makes attempt reconstruct wave Héjjas’s detachment, also examines further life a used-to-be commander who gradually member elite, despite past.