Editing Imre Nagy (section)

==Early life and World War I==
Imre Nagy was born prematurely on 7 June 1896 in the town of [[Kaposvár]] in the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], [[Austria-Hungary]], to a small-town family of [[peasant]] origin.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=1}} His father, József Nagy (1869–1929), was a [[Lutheran]] and a carriage driver for the lieutenant-general of [[Somogy County (former)|Somogy county]]. His mother, Rozália Szabó (1877–1969), served as a maid for the lieutenant-general's wife.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=1}} They both had left the countryside in their youth to work in Kaposvár.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=1}} Nagy and Szabó married in January 1896.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=1}} In 1902, József became a postal worker and began building a house for the family in 1907 but lost his job in 1911 and had to sell the house.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=2}} He was an unskilled worker for the rest of his life.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=2}}

In 1904 Nagy's family moved to [[Pécs]] before returning to Kaposvár the following year. Nagy attended a [[gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] in Kaposvár from 1907 to 1912, performing poorly.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=3}} The gymnasium cancelled his tuition due to his lack of accomplishment and funding.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=3}} He apprenticed as a [[locksmith]] in a small metalworking firm in Kaposvár, before moving to a factory for agricultural machinery in [[Lučenec|Losonc]] in northern Hungary in 1912. He returned to Kaposvár in 1913 and was given a journeyman's certificate as a metal fitter in 1914. He abandoned the job in the summer of 1914 and became a clerk at a lawyer's office, while simultaneously attending a commercial high school in Kaposvár, where his student performance was good.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=3}}

After the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in July 1914, Nagy was called up for military service in the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] in December 1914 and found fit for service.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=4}} He reported for duty at the 17th Royal Hungarian Honvéd Infantry Regiment in May 1915, after the end of the school year and before he had graduated.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=4}} After three months of basic training in [[Székesfehérvár]], his unit was sent to the [[Italian Front (World War I)|Italian Front]] in August 1915, where he was wounded in his leg at the [[Third Battle of the Isonzo]]. After convalescing in a [[field hospital]], he was trained as a machine gunner in the 19th Machine Gun Battalion, promoted to corporal and sent to the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|Eastern Front]] in the summer of 1916.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=5}}

Nagy was wounded in the leg by [[shrapnel shell|shrapnel]] and taken prisoner by the [[Imperial Russian Army]] during the [[Brusilov Offensive]] in [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] on 29 July 1916.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=6}}{{sfn|Granville|2004|p=21}} After healing his leg wound in a field hospital, he was taken first to [[Darnitsa]], then to [[Ryazan]] and finally on a train transport to [[Siberia]].{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=7}}