Metadata: National Alliance of Legislators, 1944-1945
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- Postal address:
- Budapest, Bécsi Kapu tér 2-4., 1014
- Phone number:
- +36 1 225 2843
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/
- Email:
- info@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- K 18
- Title:
- National Alliance of Legislators, 1944-1945
- Title (official language):
- Törvényhozók Nemzeti Szövetsége, 1944-1945
- Creator/accumulator:
- National Alliance of Legislators
- Date(s):
- 1944/1945
- Extent:
- 1 volume, 0.02 linear metres (262 pages)
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds the surviving minutes of 24 meetings of the National Alliance of Legislators held in Sopron from 1 December 1944 to 16 March 1945. The minutes primarily concern the evacuation of the offices, recruitment and organisation of the Hungarian Army and other war-related issues and various bills (törvényjavaslat) and proposals as well as debates concerning certain personal and political issues. The minutes of the meetings are arranged chronologically.
- Archival history:
- A large part of the records of the National Alliance of Legislators were destroyed or lost during and after the evacuation of the offices to Western Hungary in November 1944. The remaining part was transferred to the National Archives between 1950 and 1960.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Formally established on 9 October 1944, the National Alliance of Legislators was a splinter group of members of the Lower House of Parliament representing extreme right wing parties, including the Arrow Cross Party, the Hungarian National Socialist Party, the National Socialist Front, the Party of Hungarian Life, the Party of Hungarian Renewal and the Transylvanian Party. The group was headed by former Minister of the Interior Andor Jaross. Following the Nazi-supported Arrow Cross coup on 15 October 1944, its members remained loyal to the new cabinet, and the National Alliance of Legislators served as quasi-parliament during the remaining part of the war. The Houses of the Hungarian Parliament were evacuated to Western Hungary at the end of November 1944, and operated in Sopron and Kőszeg until the end of the war. About one third of the MPs who took the oath to the Arrow Cross government comprised the National Alliance of Legislators.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids exist. The collection requires item-level research.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives