People's Court - Hungary

• People’s Court of Budapest. Criminal Trial Records. 1945-1949

• Budapest Főváros Levéltára
• HU BFL XXV.1.a.
• English
• 1945-1949
• cr. 22,000 case files
• Updated 3 years ago

Documents of the Budapest People’s Court are one of the key sources pertaining to the interwar and wartime history of Hungary as well as the Holocaust. The materials include trials against former prime ministers Béla Imrédy, László Bárdossy, Döme Sztójay and Ferenc Szálasi, several ministers, undersecretaties of state and other protagonists of the anti-Jewish policies as well as the direct perpetrators of murders and other atrocities against labor servicemen and Jewish civilians, trials against members of the Arrow Cross, the Volksbund, gendarmerie and various other pro-Nazi organizations a...

• Budapest Criminal Court. Records of criminal proceedings taken from the People’s Court, 1949-1950

• Budapest Főváros Levéltára
• BFL VII. 5. e.
• English
• Updated 5 years ago

The collection contains materials from the late stages of the operation of People's Courts and their trials against war criminals and other defendants charged with political crimes at the time of the Stalinization of Hungary. The accused of these trials from 1949-1950 included various categories of Holocaust perpetrators.