White Terror (Hungary)
| Part of Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920) and Hungary in the interwar period | |
A hanging in Tab in 1920. | |
| Native name | Fehér Terror |
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| Time | 1919–1921 |
| Perpetrator | National army of Hungary, Hungarian Republic |
| Deaths | 1,500–4,000 |
| Part of a series on |
| Anti-communism |
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The White Terror (Hungarian: Fehér Terror) was a two-year period (1919–1921) of repressive violence in Hungary carried out by counter-revolutionary soldiers against the real and alleged supporters of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic and its Red Terror, especially against the Jews perceived as its main supporters. Tens of thousands were imprisoned without trial. Estimates for the number murdered between 1919 and 1921 range from 1500 to 5000. Assuming all Jews were traitors and communists, far-right militias robbed, and massacred them.