Hungary had two types of police. Police in the more sort of urban areas, and Gendarmerie in the countryside, open areas and so on. And whilst the Police was no better, no worse than the rest of the population, the Gendarmerie were sort of hand-picked yobbos and thugs with sympathies as far right as Hitler, possibly further. And if anything we suffered more from even the limited contact we had with them, than from the Germans, at that stage.
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