Kállay Miklós

• Records of the Prime Minister’s Office (1867-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 26
• English
• 1867-1945
• 1406 fasc., 216 vols., 212,74 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

A whole row of Hungarian Prime Ministers and their offices have played notable roles in the history of anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews during the 1930s and 1940s. In Hungary, anti-Semitic initiatives, including anti-Semitic legislation, was often launched and even more often supported at this level. In 1944, following the entry of Nazi Germany into Hungary, it was the newly appointed government headed by Prime Minister Döme Sztójay that actively collaborated with the German Sonderkommando in the implementation of the mass deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Records of the ...

• György Bakách-Bessenyey papers

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL P 2066
• English
• 1926-1971
• 31 boxes; 3,76 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The most significant part of the collection consists of his extensive semi-official correspondence with prominent personalities, including Prime Minister Miklós Kállay, Otto von Habsburg and John Foster Dulles. The collection also includes the registry of the Hungarian Embassy of Bern. Bakách-Bessenyey took these materials with him in April 1944, so that details of his negotiations would not be acquired by his successor. The collection also contains information on the operation of the Ambassadorial Committee. The Committee had no regular registry and the materials in the files of Bakách-Bes...

• Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin, Nazi Germany

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 83
• English
• 1922-1945
• 19 fasc., 22 vols., 3,37 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The evolving relations between Nazi Germany and Hungary were one of the most central factors in the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary. The records of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin are of crucial importance since they convey information on the Holocaust and a sense of the differences and negotiation between the two states with the Hungarian Ambassador being an important agent in his own right. The documents are of special significance also since Regent Miklós Horthy appointed former Hungarian Ambassador Döme Sztójay as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1944 once Nazi Germany entered Hu...

• Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Miklós Kállay

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 39
• English
• 1942-1944
• 14 fasc., 1,96 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Miklós Kállay (1887-1967), politician, Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Gyula Gömbös who then served as Prime Minister of Hungary between 1942 and 1944. Kállay belonged among the more moderate members of the establishment but largely kept the ministers who served under his predecessor Bárdossy in their positions. His premiership was characterized by a new Hungarian foreign policy aimed at the cautious distancing of the country from Nazi Germany and the initiation of negotiations with the Western Allies, especially Great Britain. Hungary refused to deport its large Jewish population...

1. Zeugenschrifttum
2. K
3. Kadelke - Keudell

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ZS 1703 / 1
• German
• 1956-1958
• 8 Bl.
• Updated 10 years ago

Brief Walther Hensel an Helmut Krausnick, 10. Dezember 1958; Eidesstattliche Erklärung Nicholas von Kallay, 06. März 1956 betreffend judenfeindliche Maßnahmen in Ungarn, Nationalsozialisten in Ungarn.

1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
4. Antikomintern

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MA 70 / 1
• German
• 1936-1944
• Updated 10 years ago

1. Korrespondenz (Abschrift, 3 Seiten) Sven Hedin mit Professor Kant, Rektor der Universität Dorpat (ohne Datum): Die baltischen Länder fühlen sich nicht als Teil der UdSSR und schließen sich im Kampf um ihre Existenz Deutschland an; Anlage: Bericht (Abschrift, 2 S.) über Merekula auf Grund eidesstattlicher Aussagen sowjetischer Gefangener vom 02. März 1944: Die Sowjetsoldaten hatten den Auftrag bei geglückter Landung bei Merekula alles zu vernichten, einschließlich Frauen und Kinder; 2. Afrika; Algerien, 1937-1938: Fh. v. D.[?]: Halbmond gegen Sichel und Hammer, Der Krieg des "Destours" (A...

• Papers of the Ministry of Finance (1867-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 269
• English
• 1867-1945
• 516 fasc., 35 vols., 73,841 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) who served as Minister of Finance under the succe...

• Ministry of Finance, Classified Presidential Documents (1871-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 256
• English
• 1871-1944
• 37 fasc., 16 vols., 5,92 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946), i.e. he served as Minister under the successive ...

• Records of Finance Minister Lajos Reményi-Schneller, 1938-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 280
• English
• 1938-1944
• 14 fasc., 1,56 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Hungarian Ministry of Finance was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) between 1938 and 1944, i.e. Reményi-Schneller served in this position in the successive governments of Darányi, Imrédy, Teleki (his second term), Bárdossy, Kállay, Sztójay, Lakatos and Szálasi. Reményi-Schneller even held the position of economic superminister (gazdasági csúcsminiszter) in the governments of Teleki, Bárdossy and Kállay. His policies were strongly in favor of Nazi Germany during the war years. In 1946, he was sentenced to death and executed as part of the Sztójay-trial. The collection contain...