in Hungary the aeroc cross party a far-right fascist group took power in 1944 and collaborated closely with the Nazis under their regime over 100,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to aitz and other concentration camps in a brutal campaign of persecution despite hungary's earlier alliances with the Axis powers the late War period saw increasing resistance to Nazi control the country's turbulent political situation included attempts to negotiate peace with the allies the aeroc cross party's Reign was marked by extreme violence and anti-semitic policies after the war many members of the party were tried and executed for their war crimes hungary's role in World War II remains a poignant chapter of collaboration and resistance