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Holding Institution: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

  1. Külügyminiszter Kabinetjének iratai (1918-1944)

    • Records of the Cabinet of the Foreign Minister (1918-1944)

    The Cabinet of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry was responsible for presenting matters of foreign policy to the Council of Ministers as well as addressing internal matters that concerned the Foreign Minister as a member of the government. The Cabinet also prepared laws proposed in Parliament that belonged to the realm of foreign policy, parliamentary inquiries and ministerial decisions. The Cabinet also arranged meetings of foreigners with the Regent who did not have diplomatic status in Budapest. Last but not least, the Cabinet served as the secretariat of the Ministry.

  2. Külügyminisztérium, Külföldön élő magyar állampolgárok gondozását ellátó osztály

    • Foreign Ministry, Department for Attending Hungarian Citizens Abroad

    A moot question in the study of the Holocaust in Hungary is how the Hungarian state related to its Jewish citizens who resided in other European countries either occupied by or allied to the Nazis during the implementation of the Holocaust starting in 1941-1942 but before the mass deportations from Hungary in 1944. Two central questions concern how far the Hungarian state aimed to protect them and how it related to their property. The records of the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Attending Hungarian Citizens Abroad contain documents regarding the tackling of social and cultural issues of...

  3. Külügyminisztérium, Sajtó és Kulturális Osztály

    • Records of the Press and Cultural Department, Foreign Ministry

    The collection documenting the activities of the Press and Cultural Department of the Foreign Ministry has three major parts: first, there are records of the distribution of Hungarian press organs abroad, reviews of foreign press, information bureaus and radio-related matters, second, there are records of the distribution of foreign press organs in Hungary, their permits, and papers on connections to foreign journalists, and third, there are documents on the internal matters of the department(s).