Funded broadcaster, filmed a video in the Buda Castle packed with ethical slips, where multiple speakers appeared, conveying the television network’s propaganda messages. As we previously reported, the film which took place in the Castle District (Budapest’s 1st District and site of the medieval royal city of Buda), seeks to draw parallels between the present day and the Horthy-era’s persecution of Jews in its final days.
In addition, Tamás Wágner’s statements, who made an appearance in the film, were dubbed in German so that his speech in Hungarian is not understandable. As it turns out, this was probably done on purpose by DW so that they could put words in his mouth – that he never actually uttered. Wágner, a Budapest local and former MTI (Magyar Távirati Iroda – Hungarian News Agency) employee, answered our questions saying that he spoke only of the ongoing construction in the Buda Castle and how difficult this makes any kind of transportation. He also spoke of the fact that there are often roadblocks set up due to the delegations arriving to the government, which also serve to disrupt motor and pedestrian traffic.

Twisted words
In the video however, they imply that Wágner meant much more than what he said by tying his statements to the pro-Gergely-Karácsony (opposition mayor of Budapest, member of the Dialogue for Hungary party) mayor Márta V. Naszályi (mayor of Budapest’s 1st District and member of Dialogue for Hungary party) who spoke right before him; she claimed that locals “share her concerns”. She also mentioned that “the government expropriates land owned by the city” and also it “sends a dangerous social message”, she doesn’t want to see the Castle District in its 1944 condition.
“This was an arbitrary, dictatorial decision by the government, that runs counter to society’s interests”
– said Mayor Karácsony’s fellow party member.
The other part of the video also features Tamás Wágner as the former MTI journalist runs into his neighbor, János Marti, in the stairwell of their building. Marti states that “these days you just don’t know what’s going to happen”, and that he and his wife of Jewish descent “could no longer bear to watch their country’s political transformation in recent years” so they will move.