Nyilaskeresztes Párt - Hungarista Mozgalom

Arrow Cross Party - Hungarist Movement

Arrow Cross

Identifier: 474
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

(1935) 1939-1945

History

Arrow Cross Party was the most popular right-wing extremist movement in Hungary before and during WWII. The party was founded in 1935 under the name of Party of National Will. Its leader, former officer of the General Staff, Ferenc Szálasi was imprisoned (1938-1940) and his party dissolved several times, however, managed to return to political life. In the last pre-war elections in 1939 the Arrow Cross gained 29 seats, making it the second largest party in Parliament. The party was re-named to Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement in 1942. After Regent Miklós Horthy’s attempt to extricate from war on October 15, 1944, the Arrow Cross Party assumed power with Nazi support. From October 16, 1944, until March 28, 1945, Ferenc Szálasi was prime minister of Hungary as well as its plenipotentiary head of state, bearing the title “Leader of the Nation.” Paramilitary forces of the Party, known as Party Service (pártszolgálat) and Armed National Service (fegyveres nemzetszolgálat) committed several atrocities and war crimes during their short reign, which claimed the lives of thousands of people, mostly Jews and Roma. Following the war, Szálasi and several other Arrow Cross leaders were sentenced to death and executed.

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A náci és nyilas rémtettek kivizsgálására alakult bizottság
- Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL X 1320
- English
- 1944-1945
- Updated 10 years ago
The documentation of the Holocaust (avant la lettre) started in Hungary practically as soon as the war had ended and it took various major forms. Holocaust survivors played major roles in several of the attempts at early documentation such as the DEGOB interview project with thousands of camp survivors. The many trials that dealt with crimes committed against Hungarian Jews during the war years and the documentation project pursued by the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities were among the most important Hungarian state-based forms of Holocaust documentation. W...
A zsidók zár alá vett műtárgyainak számbavételére és megőrzésére kinevezett kormánybiztos iratai
- Papers of the Government Commissioner to Review and Preserve the Locked Up Art Objects of Jews
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 643
- English
- 1944
- 3 fasc., 1 vols., 0,4 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
In early June of 1944, when the mass deportations of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau were already under way, the Hungarian government decided that the expropriated wealth of Hungarian Jews ought to be controlled and handled by special agencies. The two most important new offices created for this purpose were the Zsidók Anyagi és Vagyonjogi Ügyeinek Megoldására Kinevezett Kormánybiztos Hivatala (The Government Commissioner’s Office for Solving the Material and Financial Affairs of the Jews) and a similar, though more specialized agency called the Zsidók Zár Alá Vett Műtárgyainak Számbav...
Aprónyomtatványok gyűjteménye
- Collection of Placards and Other Small Printed Material
- Holokauszt Emlékközpont
- Aprónyomtatványok gyűjteménye
- English
- 1939-2010
- ca. 0,5 linear metres, 4 boxes
- Updated 10 years ago
The collection holds placards, leaflets, fliers and other kinds of printed material created by various organizations and institutions, mostly by Hungarian right-wing and extreme right-wing parties and movements before and during World War II, including the Arrow Cross Party and several national socialist and race protectionist organizations. Besides, the publications and various kinds of printed material, including placards and brochures issued by the Holocaust Memorial Center and its predecessors between 1990 and 2010 are also held in this collection.
Hlavnoslúžnovský úrad v Košiciach
- Főszolgabírói hivatal Kassa
- Chief Constable´s Office in Košice
- Štátny archív v Košiciach
- 12007
- English
- 1939-1945
- 54 boxes, paper documents.
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains various documents of the Chief Constable´s Office in Košice (Kassa) which pertain various political and economical issues of the area during the period 1939-1945. Among others, this fonds contains documents on the economic persecution of Jews in Košice and its vicinity, such as limitations of new licenses for Jews, various sanctions against Jewish tradesmen etc. The fonds also contains the list of Jewish businessmen (licence owners). There are also documents pertaining to the revision of the state citizenship of Jews as well as the documents on their concentration in the ...
Hungarista napló, 1944-1945
- 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...
Magyar Belügyminisztérium, Elnöki iratok, 1938-1944
- Records of the Executive Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1938-1944 [Presidential]
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 148
- English
- 1938-1944
- 6 boxes, 1202 fasc., 406 vols., 196,77 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
The collection consists of records handled by the Executive Office (Elnöki Osztály), which was the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs. These are the documents of parliamentary interpellations (e.g. by the Arrow-Cross MP Kálmán Hubay, or the anti-Nazi MP Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky) to the Minister, and his answers; reports to the Minister regarding the activities of Jewish individuals (e.g. the communist Endre Ságvári) and communities (e.g. the Jews of Békés county); issues concerning the citizenship of Jews, the 1941 round-up and deportation of the so called “stateless” Jews, the exemp...
Magyar Belügyminisztérium, Rezervált iratok, 1938-1944
- Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Classified Documents, 1938-1944
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 149
- English
- 1938-1944
- 327 boxes, 49 vols., 41,7 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
MOL K 149 PTI contains monthly police reports for more than sixty cities; Intelligence on rightists (e.g., Arrow Cross) and leftists (e.g., Social-Democrats and Communists); various nationalities (Ruthenians, Germans, Slovaks, and others); religious sects (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses); and Jews, including refugees from Slovakia; Secret reports on public opinion generally and among suspect groups in particular about political, military, and economic affairs.
Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa, 1945-1950
- National Council of People’s Courts, 1945-1950
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL XX-4
- English
- 1945-1950
- 171 boxes, 20 vols., 21,52 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
Documents of the People’s Courts are among the most significant sources pertaining to the interwar and wartime history of Hungary as well as the Holocaust. The materials include trials against former prime ministers, 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 labour servicemen and Jewish civilians, trials against members of the Arrow Cross, the Volksbund, gendarmerie and various other pro-Nazi organizations and institutions, journalists, informants, beneficiaries o...
Nyilas belügyminisztérium iratai, 1944-1945
- 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...
Nyilas igazságügy-minisztérium (Szombathely)
- Records of the Arrow Cross Ministry of Justice (Szombathely)
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 800
- English
- 1945
- 1 box, 1 fasc., 1 booklet, 0,3 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
Due to the advancement of the Red Army in the battle for Hungary and its approaching of Budapest, the Arrow Cross Ministry of Justice was moved to Szombathely in Western Hungary in the second half of November 1944 and had its seat at the main Courthouse of the town. The Ministry was in operation in Szombathely until the end of March but could rely only on a reduced number of its staff there. The papers of the relocated Hungarian Ministry of Justice from 1944 were presumably destroyed. The remaining papers that are to be found in this collection at the Hungarian National Archive are from the...
Nyilas Képviselőház, 1944-1945 (Sopron)
- The Arrow Cross Parliament, 1944-1945 (Sopron)
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 7
- English
- 1944-1945
- 1 fasc., 1 vols., 0,053 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
After the botched attempt of Regent Miklós Horthy in mid-October 1944 to switch sides in the war, power in Hungary was taken over by the Arrow Cross who committed the country to the war effort on the side of Nazi Germany. The military situation deteriorated further for the Axis powers and by November the Arrow Cross leadership decided to move its seat westward from Budapest to the Hungarian-Austrian border area. The central offices of the leadership moved to Kőszeg while the sessions of the rump parliament were held in Sopron where they operated until March 1945. This collection contains do...
Nyilas Külügyminisztérium
- Records of the Arrow-Cross Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 707
- English
- 1944-1945
- 3 fasc., 1 vols., 0,38 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
A main but failed ambition of the Arrow Cross government of Hungary that acquired power through a German-backed putsch in mid-October 1944 was to gain diplomatic recognition. Even though the Arrow Cross government pursued a pro-German policy in the war, its ambition to acquire international recognition influenced a number of its policy choices and this included the treatment of Hungary's remaining Jewish population. Hungarian Jews were murdered in thousands in Budapest and tens of thousands of them were forced on deadly marched westwards but they who were no longer systematically deported a...
Nyilas vallás- és közoktatásügyi minisztérium, 1944-1945
- Records of the Arrow Cross Ministry of Religion and Education, 1944-1945
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 638
- English
- 1944-1945
- 9 fasc., 1 vols., 1,32 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
This collection at the Hungarian National Archive contains a fragment of the documents of the fleeing Arrow Cross Ministry of Religion and Education. This Ministry operated at the Franciscan Convent in the city of Szombathely in the last stages of the war. The collection includes its presidential papers as well as papers of its seventeen departments, several of which are of relevance. However, the most relevant for the study of the history of the Holocaust in Hungary among the papers constitute a separate part beyond the papers of these seventeen departments: it is a collection of papers fr...
Okresný ľudový súd v Dunajskej Strede
- District People´s Court in Dunajská Streda
- Štátny archív v Bratislave
- 16452
- English
- 1945-1947
- 1,5 linear meters,paper documents.
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains various case files pertaining to the persecution of Jews in Dunajská Streda which belonged to the Hungary in 1938-1945. Several files pertain to the denunciation of Jews. Several files pertain to the activities the Arrow Cross Party members and contains the information on the persecution of Jews including of deportations of Jews.
Okresný ľudový súd v Galante
- District People´s Court in Galanta
- Štátny archív v Bratislave
- 16430
- English
- 1945-1947
- 1,63 linear meters, paper documents.
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains files pertaining the persecution of Jews in Galanta and surrounding area which belonged to Hungary in 1938-1945 but contains also files pertaining to the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945). Several files contain the information on denunciation of Jews. There is a case file pertaining to the denunciation of smuggling of Jews over the Slovak-Hungarian border. Fonds contains several files of Arrow Cross Party memebers which contain the information on the persecution of Jews. There are also files of the Slovak Hlinka Guard members who were prosecuted...
Okresný ľudový súd v Košiciach
- District People´s Court in Košice
- Štátny archív v Košiciach
- 11962
- English
- 1945-1948
- 63 boxes, paper.
- Updated 7 years ago
Fonds contains files pertaining the post-WW II prosecution of various suspects and convicts for crimes committed at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945) as well as Hungary (1938-1945). It thus contains information on various forms of persecution of Jews, Roma and political opponents which took place not only at the territory of Košice and its vicinity but also at the territory of war-time Slovakia as well as quite distant places abroad. Besides files pertaining the so called Aryanization of Jewish property in Košice and its vicinity; blackmailing and denouncing of Jews; as well as the depo...
Okresný ľúdový súd v Lučenci
- District People´s Court in Lučenec
- Štátny archív v Banskej Bystrici
- 12006
- English
- 1945-1947
- 7 boxes, paper
- Updated 7 years ago
The fonds contains various files concerning the persecution of Jews in Slovakia (1938-1945) and Hungary (1938-1945). Among others there is a case file of the former detective of Hungarian state police which contains the information about the investigation and the death of Jewish man in Lučenec (Losonc). Another file of former dignitary of the Nyilaskeresztes Párt (Arrow Cross Party) in Lučenec contains the information on the division of Jewish property in Lučenec (Losonc). One file contains the information on the ghetto in Lučenec (Losonc). There is also a file concerning the blackmailing o...
Okresný ľudový súd v Nových Zámkoch
- District People´s Court in Nové Zámky
- Štátny archív v Bratislave
- 16438
- English
- 1945-1947
- 2,88 linear meters, paper documents.
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains files pertaining to the persecution of Jews in Nové Zámky and surrounding area which belonged to Hungary in 1938-1945 but contains also files pertaining to the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945). Several files contain the information on the so called Aryanization of Jewish property. There are case files on the denunciation of Jews during the deportaion of Jews from Hungary. Several files pertain to the deportation of Jews from Hungary and activities of various individuals against Jews during deportations. Number of files pertains to the Arrow Cro...
Okresný ľúdový súd v Rožňave
- District People´s Court in Rožňava
- Štátny archív v Košiciach
- 11966
- English
- 1945-1947
- 8 boxes, paper
- Updated 7 years ago
Fonds contains files pertaining the persecution of Jews at the territory of Hungary as well as Slovakia (1938-1945). It contains the information on various forms of persecution Jews and handling of Jewish property in Rožňava as well as on handling the Jewish property in ghetto in Plešivec. Besides that fonds contains the file concerning the prosecution of the former member of SS who served as a guard in Auschwitz from Summer 1943 to 1945. It also contains file with the information on persecution of Roma members of the partisan unit in Sadovce and several files concerning the persecution of ...
Rajniss Ferenc iratai, 1923-1945
- Ferenc Rajniss papers, 1923-1945
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL P 2210
- English
- 1923-1945
- 2 boxes, 0,2 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
This collection contains papers and records of Ferenc Rajniss (1893-1946) was an influential Hungarian extreme right-wing politician and journalist, editor of the weekly Új Magyarság and Magyar Futár, and a recognized expert on questions of social policy. Rajniss was elected a member of Parliament in 1935 as part of the governing party then under the leadership of Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös, represented the Nemzeti Front (the National Front), a national socialist formation in 1937, was a member of the Magyar Élet Pártja (the Hungarian Life Party) in 1939 to subsequently join Béla Imrédy's ...