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But we were completely Hungarian, Hungarians of Jewish extraction from Upperland Hungary (present-day Slovakia, which was part of Hungary before WWI). Language, the organization, and tradition tied us to Judaism. The same was true for Roman Catholics and Catholicism. At one point, they moved the Swabians here. Those Swabians later became Hungarians. Two hundred years later the Czechs came. By now they had also become Hungarians. While the Swabs were Swabs, and the Czechs were Czechs, the Hungarians could be Evangelists, Catholics or Jews, who were Hungarians. We weren’t foreigners. We were Hungarians. We just had a different religion.
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Hungary
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Peter Reisz