Selected documents related to Hungary from the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA)

Identifier
irn36443
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.1
  • RG-67.022
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36443

Extent and Medium

folders

20

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Archival History

United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

From the National Archives and Records Administration. This collection originated after the National Archives of Hungary requested USHMM's help in locating the American interrogation protocols of groups of Hungarians who occupied important posts in the Hungarian government during the war and who were returned by US Forces from Austria to the Hungarian government in Budapest to stand trial. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from NARA via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in December, 2008.

Scope and Content

This collection focuses on US government documents as represented in NARA holdings, which were related to activities of the US Armed Forces and the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in the Hungarian and Austrian areas just before the end of the war and after the end of the war. It includes documents concerning the work of American OSS operative Martin Himmler, who supervised a series of interrogations of a group of Hungarians detained by US forces in Austria after the war, but it does not include the protocols of the interrogations themselves; these protocols were not found at NARA. It also contains correspondence among US government organizations concerning alleged Hungarian war criminals, information on relations between U.S. and Soviet representatives to the Allied Control Commission for Hungary, some name lists of Hungarians who were in German concentration camps, and materials generally related to Hungarian Jews and the German occupation of Hungary.

System of Arrangement

Arranged numerically by NARA Record Group numbers: 84, 153, 226, 242, 319, 331.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • War criminals--Hungary.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
  • Jews--Hungary--History--20th century.
  • Jewish property--Europe--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Hungary.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Europe.
  • Hungary--Politics and government--1933-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.

Genre

  • Document
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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