Addressing the event in the city’s north, Budapest Mayor István Tarlós said that “we can only be faithful to Hungary within Europe if we never and nowhere betray what Hungarian freedom fighters had died for.”

He said that the Red Cross of Bonn had sent a consignment to Hungary that allowed to fully equip a 100-bed hospital with medicine, bandage and essential food stock.

A staff of the German Red Cross not only dispatched the consignment but operated the hospital until mid- November, the mayor said. Helmut Eisenhut, of the German Red Cross, noted continued shooting their officers had faced while working in Budapest.

A few of their workers were captured by Soviet troops on November 4 and kept in detention for days, he said.

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