Oscar Bethlen
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* Bratislava, 13 Sept. 1909 – † Budapest, 20 Jan. 1969 / journalist, historian ; ; He came to Budapest at a young age, and after graduating from high school he became an electrician. He was an official of the communist youth organization in Budapest. He was sentenced to prison and then deported back to Budapest. From 1936 he was the national secretary of the Slovak Hungarian Youth Association, from the second half of 1936 he was a colleague of the Hungarian Day, from 1937 he was its general editor and deputy editor-in-chief. He was interned in 1939 and visited the Dachau, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz camps. He described his ordeals in the volume Life in the Land of Death(1959). In 1946–1954 he was a colleague of Szabad Nép, and from 1956 he was an employee of the MSZMP Party History Institute. After 1945 he condemned the disenfranchisement of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia, and was among the first to react to Zoltán Fábry's work The Accused Speaks (Szabad Nép, 9 Feb. 1947). ; ; Works: Counter-Revolution in Hungary, Budapest 1956, 1958, Paris, Madrid, Vienna. The Unity Policy of the Comintern 1933–1937, Budapest 1968. ; ; Literature: Zoltán Fábry: Stószi Mornings, Budapest–Bulgaria 1968, Henrik Vass: B. O., Party Torture. Publ. 1969, Rózsa Varga: Look for what connects..., Po.–Bp. 1971. ;
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