Supporters of Hungary’s extreme-right Jobbik party marching in Budapest in memory of Admiral Horthy. ‘Anti-Jewish laws, the deportation of more than half a million Jews to death camps – all these and many other crimes are connected to him.’ Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

by András Schiff

A new statue of Admiral Horthy – Hungary’s war-time ruler and Hitler’s ally – symbolises a refusal to face up to the country’s darkest history

Last month in Budapest a new statue was unveiled to a dangerous man. Right in the heart of the city – in Szabadság Tér (Freedom Place) – there now stands a monument to one of Hitler’s closest allies: Admiral Miklós Horthy, the “regent” who ruled Hungary from 1920 to 1944.

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