Metadata: Foreign Ministry, Szombathely Section (Arrow Cross Foreign Ministry), 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 707
- Title:
- Foreign Ministry, Szombathely Section (Arrow Cross Foreign Ministry), 1944-1945
- Title (official language):
- Külügyminisztérium Szombathelyi részleg, 1944-1945
- Creator/accumulator:
- Foreign Ministry
- Date(s):
- 1944/1945
- Extent:
- 3 fascicles, 1 volume, 0.38 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds the fragments of records created by the Arrow Cross Foreign Ministry between 16 October 1944 and 27 March 1945. It provides insight into the foreign policy and Jewish policy of the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross movement during the last phase of the war. The most relevant parts of the collection are the records of the Cabinet Office of the Minister (thematic unit no. 1), the records of the Presidential Department (thematic units no. 2 and 4), the records of the Department of Economic Policy (thematic unit no. 4), and the records of the Auditing Office (thematic unit no. 6).
- Archival history:
- The surviving records of the Arrow Cross Foreign Ministry were taken to the Hungarian National Archives in 1962.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Arrow Cross Party (also known as Hungarist Movement) was the most popular right-wing extremist movement during the Horthy regime from the late 1930s, led by former military officer Ferenc Szálasi. After Horthy’s attempt to extricate Hungary from war on 15 October 1944, they assumed power with Nazi support and reigned until April 1945, when the entire territory of Hungary was occupied by the Soviet Red Army and the war ended.
Following the takeover of the Arrow Cross Party, the Foreign Ministry continued to work along the same tasks and competencies. In November 1944, with the Red Army approaching, all offices of the ministry were evacuated to the town of Szombathely by the western border of Hungary. The Arrow Cross Ministry of Justice was headed by Gábor Kemény (1910-1946), who was sentenced to death and executed after the war.
- Access points: locations:
- Szombathely
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Collaboration
- Finding aids:
- Ferenc Nagy, ed. Külügyminisztérium levéltára. Vols 2. Budapest: MOL, 2003.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
