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Date of birth:

March 15th, 1895 (Budapest, Hungary)

Date of death:

October 16th, 1987 (The Hague, the Netherlands)

Nationality:

Hungarian

1932–1934 military attaché in Bulgaria .
1934-1937 military attaché in the United Kingdom and the United States of America .
1942-1943 he fights on the Eastern Front as the commander of the 105th Division.
1943–1944 commander of the V. Corps.

On the orders of Lieutenant General Zoltán Aldy-Pápa, from October 1942 to September 1943, soldiers of the Hungarian 105th Light Division of the eastern occupying forces committed war crimes in the territory of Czernyihiv County, in current-day Ukraine. The Hungarian units took part in the extermination of around 60,000 civilians.

In April 1944, as a general assigned to the government commissioner of Transcarpathia, he participated in the implementation of anti-Jewish measures in the county of Máramaros, Romania.

Convicted of war crimes at the Chernihiv trial on October 2, 1947 and subsequently sentenced to 25 years of hard labor. Released after 10 years imprisonment on health grounds. Algya-Pap emigrated from Hungary to Austria and finally to the Netherlands, where he eventually died.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Vezérezredes (Lieutenant-general)

Unit:

Commander, V. Corps, Royal Hungarian Army

Awarded on:

November 10th, 1944

For action in the battles fought in the areas of Szolyva and Munkács.

"As a division commander, he fought very serious and critical repulsive battles with his troops, and when his troops were shaken during the attacks of the enemy, who were reinforced with many times more tanks, he stood at their head and personally led a counterattack to prevent the advance of the Russians and thus managed to ensure the withdrawal of his own forces, who were almost surrounded. When the outnumbered battle group embraced him, he broke out of the enemy's ring with his valiant attitude, dragging his troops with him. He set an outstanding example of the behavior of a higher commander with his bold leadership, which was deliberate but demonstrated excellent personal courage in a crisis situation."

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

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• - Illésfalvi P., Kovács V., Maruzs R., For Valour, with the Hungarian officer's golden medal of bravery laureates in the World War Two
  - Illésfalvi Péter-Kovács Vilmos-Maruzs Roland: „VITÉZSÉGÉRT". - ár adatbázis katalógus - Vaterakatalogus.hu