Metadata: Centre of State Security Classified Records, 1942-1944
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 519
- Title:
- Centre of State Security Classified Records, 1942-1944
- Title (official language):
- Államvédelmi Központ Bizalmas iratok, 1942-1944
- Creator/accumulator:
- Centre of State Security
- Date(s):
- 1942/1944
- Extent:
- 1 fascicle, 0.02 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The surviving records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoisation and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The classified (confidential) records of the Centre mostly include the investigative files concerning fraud, corruption and other misuses pertaining to the labour service system. Besides, there are two reports on alleged conspiracy of certain members of the Hungarian elites in Transylvania against the German occupation and their alliance with “the Jews”.
- Archival history:
- The collection was acquired by the Hungarian National Archives in the early 1950s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in June 1942, the Centre of State Security was a special governmental body under the Ministry of the Interior, whose task was to control and coordinate the activities of military counter-intelligence, the political investigation agencies (gendarmerie and police) and the civil administration. The Centre’s staff included military, police and gendarme officers and a chief prosecutor appointed by the Ministry of Justice. According to the confidential orders regulating its sphere of action, the Centre of State Security was mostly involved in the investigation of conspiracy, sabotage and other actions against the state and internal order, counterintelligence and activities dangerous for public supply and war economy.
- Access points: locations:
- Hungary
- Transylvania
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged by file numbers.
- Finding aids:
- Szinai Miklós, ed. A Belügyminisztériumi Levéltár 1867–1945 /1949/. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1973.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
