Word: szekler
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...people had thought much about Sudeten Germans before Adolf Hitler began pitying them. Almost no one-except a few professional anthropologists and race historians-had even heard of the Szeklers before last week. But according to Hungarian papers, these poor people, who are of purest Magyar stock, were taking a pitiful mauling from the barbaric Rumanians. Thirty-six Szekler boys, whose innocent pleasure it was to gather and chat studiously about Hungarian arts and literature, were rounded up and "put through the third degree by the Rumanian police and mistreated in such a cruel way that some of them were...
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