Headquarters of the Organisation of National Accounting, 1944-1945

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

Title (official language):: Nemzeti Számonkérés Szervezete Parancsnoksága, 1944-1945

Scope and content:: The surviving fragments of the records are mostly from the papers of the military investigation unit, including files on the allocation of provisions (tobacco, food) to the unit, accounts and reports, military orders and telegrams, personal requests for clothes, vehicles and equipment. The most important part of the collection is the name list of the officers and NCOs of the military investigation unit, with 41 names and personal data, including Holocaust perpetrators such as commander Captain Endre Radó and deputy commander First Lieutenant Gusztáv Binder.

Archival history:: The collection was transported from Sárvár to Budapest immediately after the end of the war and handed over to the Hungarian National Archives in the early 1950s.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Organisation of National Accounting (Nemzeti Számonkérés Szervezete), also known as National Accounting Detachment (Nemzeti Számonkérő Különítmény), National Accounting Organisation (Nemzeti Számonkérő Szervezet) was an elite formation recruited from gendarme officers established right after the Arrow Cross takeover in October 1944. Its main task was to investigate and neutralise all enemies of the Arrow Cross regime. The members of the units tortured and executed hundreds of Jews, left-wingers, deserters and other “enemies of the regime” in Budapest and in Western Hungary.

Finding aids:: Kovács Tamás: A Nemzeti Számonkérő Különítmény. Múltunk, 2006. no. 3. 71-100.