Vajna Gábor

• The Hungarist Journal, 1944-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 750
• English
• 1944-1945
• Vols. 8., 0,22 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The collection holds the records of the activities and ideas of Ferenc Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party from the origins of the movement in the 1930s until October, 1944, when the party assumed power. The material includes the pamphlets, speeches and other writings of Szálasi and other leaders and ideologues of the party, including Gábor Vajna, Emil Kovarcz, Gábor Kemény, Sándor Csia and Jenő Szőllősi, and Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik, notes on the history of the party, minutes of political meetings, circulars, flyers and other propaganda material, interviews and reports, bibliography and vario...

• Records of the Arrow Cross Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1944-1945

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 775
• English
• 1944-1945
• 6 fasc., 0,8 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Arrow Cross Ministry of the Interior was headed by Gábor Vajna (1891-1946) who was a soldier, politician and member of Parliament after 1939. Vajna belonged among the Hungarians who were in close contact with the German occupiers after March 19, 1944, including those who were implementing the Holocaust. As Minister of the Interior in the government of Szálasi, Vajna was responsible for the attempted reorganization of the Hungarian state along dictatorial-totalitarian lines. He agreed to German requests to provide altogether around 75 000 Hungarian Jewish slave laborers for the German wa...