This is a private offer for schwing1000 Pre World War II Military Doctor Surgeon Medical Officers Dagger Knife Red Cross 1930?s Kingdom of Hungary, interwar period to early WWII era uniformed physician?s / military doctor?s dress dagger. Richly decorated in beautiful pre-war Art Nouveau style. Personalized blade engraving reads To Head Physician Dr. Aranyi Sandor 1942. Aranyi Sandor medical colonel (1908. ? 1982.) Senior medical officer of the Hungarian army, later an anti-fascist resistance fighter, eventually a victim of the communist show trials. In 1931, he earned a degree in general medicine from Tisza Istvan University in Debrecen. Between 1931 and 1939, he was an intern and assistant professor at Pazmany Peter University's Women's Clinic No. II. He participated in World War II as a medical corps commander. In 1939, he passed his specialist exam in obstetrics and gynecology and became deputy head of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the Military Officers' Hospital in Budapest, then head physician of the department in 1942. During World War II, as commander of the medical corps, he came into contact with members of the armed resistance, Gyorgy Palffy, Lieutenant Colonel Ferenc Kallo, a military chaplain, and Laszlo Solyom, a n/c captain in the General Staff, as well as with the military leadership of the illegal Communist Party. He joined their movement, organized medical care in case of military resistance, stockpiled weapons with the help of Ferenc Kallo, and hid them in his hospital for the resistance fighters. In 1944, he became the head of the military medical resistance organization of the resistance movement led by Lieutenant Generals Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky and Janos Kiss, transforming the Baar?Madas school into the resistance's base hospital. In November 1944, he was arrested by the Nazi Arrow Cross militia and held in the military prison on Margit Boulevard and then in the infamous Sopronk?hida prison. Since his documents remained in the besieged Budapest, he was released due to lack of evidence. As captain of a field hospital, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets when Fortress Budapest fell, but was released thanks to the intervention of Prime Minister Miklos Bela Dalnoki. From May 1945, he was deputy head of the Health Department of the Ministry of Defense, and from 1947, he held the rank of medical colonel. In 1945, he was awarded the Hungarian Order of Liberty. He played a major role in the reorganization of the Central Military Hospital on Robert Karoly Boulevard in Budapest. In 1946, he was promoted to colonel. In 1947, he represented Hungary at the 11th International Congress of Military Doctors and Pharmacists in Basel. In April 1950, he was arrested by military counterintelligence officers of the State Security Authority as a suspect in the so-called generals' conspiracy led by Lieutenant General Solyom, and was the 12th defendant in the show trial. The military court sentenced him to death in the first instance, and then the Military High Court sentenced him to life imprisonment in August 1950. He was imprisoned in Vac and in the Budapest Detention Center, then released in 1954 and rehabilitated in 1955 after a retrial. He was offered his old position, but he refused it and worked as the chief physician of the Special Maternity Hospital in Csongrad from 1955 to 1976. He died in Csongrad in 1982 at the age of 74.