The House of Terror in Budapest is a building that served as the headquarters of the Nazi and the Communist regime at the time of their respective occupation of Hungary. The building has been transformed into a museum and contains exhibits pertaining to that era.
The House of Terror in Budapest is a reminder of the dreadful times that the country witnessed at the time of the Communist and Nazi regime. It served as the headquarters of both the regimes during their rise in Hungary.
Hungary had submitted to Germany to secure itself and its population, but could not save itself ultimately from the Arrow Cross which had the backing of the Nazi regime. Towards the end of the Second World War, Hungary was taken over by the Arrow Cross who left no stone unturned to eliminate the Jews from the Hungarian population.The same building was occupied by the Communists when they set foot on
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Hungarian soil and made it the headquarters of the secret police.
The different chambers of the House of Terror Museum display things of the era. There are pictures of the people who suffered in this House of Terror. There are separate sections devoted to Social Realism Art, religious exhibits and Gulag life.
The final segment features a video which narrates the process of execution as one lands into the prison basement. The Hall of tears within the museum commemorates the 25000 people who died during the 1956 Revolution. The last couple of rooms in the Museum contain clips which depict the days when the Soviet regime left the country which marked Hungarian independence.
The House of Terror Museum in Budapest remains open from Tuesday to Friday from 10 am in the morning to 6 in the evening. On weekends the museum is open from 10 in the morning to 7.30 in the evening. It remains closed on Monday.
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