A Man with Many Names

The following interview with LASZLO RAJK was conducted by a German writer, HANS-HENNING PAETZKE. It has been slightly condensed for reasons of space. —Eds.

HANS-HENNING PAETZKE: Mr. Rajk, you were born on January 26, 1949. Your father, after whom you are named, was minister of the interior and later foreign minister in the post-World War II regime of the Stalinist Mátyás Rákosi. You were four months old when your father was arrested by the Hungarian secret ...