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    Egy kettétört barátság története. Viták a Budapesti Református Egyházmegye élén, 1944-ben
    (Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Hittudományi Kar Egyháztörténeti Kutatóintézet, 2025) Erdős Kristóf
    For the first dean of the Reformed Presbytery of Budapest, Imre Szabó, the real threat of the Nazi ideology to Christianity had been known since the early 1930s. In his sermons, lectures and newspaper articles, vhe voiced this opinion. In his congregation and in the Presbytery, his lay colleague in leadership was András Tasnádi Nagy, who as Minister of Justice had introduced the second anti-Jewish law (1939). Their political differences came to a head in the summer of 1944, when Tasnádi blocked Szabó’s initiative to have the Presbytery protest the deportation of rural Jews. As a result, their friendship ended. In 1946, Tasnádi was sentenced to death as a war criminal. On the initiative of dean Szabó, the Presbytery submitted a petition for clemency to save his life, which the President of the Republic accepted. Tasnádi’s sentence was changed to life imprisonment and he died in prison in 1956.