Bárdossy László

Bárdossy, László, 1890-1946
Bárdossy, László

Identifier: 000024
Type of Entity: Person

Dates of Existence

10/12/1890

10/01/1946

History

Hungarian diplomat and a politician. He was Prime Minister of Hungary between April 3, 1941, and March 7, 1942, when Hungary entered the war against Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. In autumn 1944 he became one of the leaders of the extreme right National Alliance of Legislators (Törvényhozók Nemzeti Szövetsége). In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

Places

Szombathely, Hungary
Budapest, Hungary

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A miniszterelnökség központilag iktatott és irattározott iratai (1867-1945)
- 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 ...
Bárdossy László miniszterelnök iratai
- Personal Files of Prime Minister László Bárdossy
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 38
- English
- 1942
- 1 fasc., 0,14 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
László Bárdossy (1890-1946) was a diplomat, politician, foreign minister and then Prime Minister of Hungary between 1941 and 1942. He introduced the so called Third Anti-Jewish Law in 1941, which closely resembled the racial definitions of the Nuremberg Laws, banning marriage as well as sexual intercourse between Jews and non-Jews. The infamous massacre of Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941 took place during his time in office when the deportation initiated by Hungarian authorities led to the first Nazi mass murder with over 10 000 Jewish victims. Moreover, Hungary entered the war against Yugoslavia ...
Prime Ministers
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- Updated 6 years ago
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- Politicians and Statespersons
War criminals
- EHRI Terms
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- Criminals
- Perpetrators
- Postwar period
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Trials
- EHRI Terms
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- Updated 5 years ago
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- Legal proceedings
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Kállay Miklós miniszterelnök iratai
- 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...
Kállay, Miklos
- Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
- ZS 1703 / 1
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- 1956-1958
- 8 Bl.
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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.
Kormányzó félhivatalos iratai
- Semi-official Records of the Regent
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 589
- English
- 1919-1944
- 9 fasc., 1 vols., 1,29 linear metres
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The collection holds the semi-official diplomatic records as well as private and family documents of Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary between 1919 and 1944. The collection is divided into two main thematic groups: Records related to Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs (I-II.) Files with relevance to the history of Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust include the letters of Prime Ministers Bethlen, Gömbös, Teleki and Bárdossy to Horthy (I.B), memorandum of the policy of the Imrédy government (I.C), various pro memoriae and letters on political parties and problems (I.D) and letters and prop...
Pénzügyminisztérium, Általános iratok (1867-1945)
- 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...
Pénzügyminisztérium, Elnöki rezervált iratok (1871-1944)
- 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
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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 ...
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- Updated 6 years ago
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Reményi-Schneller Lajos pénzügyminiszter iratai, 1938-1944
- 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
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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...
Schriftgutverwaltung
- Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
- MA 284 / 1
- German
- 1935-1945
- Updated 10 years ago
I. Reichsführer-SS (RFSS), Persönlicher Stab: geheime Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten des Chefs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, Nr. 12-28 (17. Juli 1942-06. November 1942); [EAP 161-b-10/5 und ab Nr. 5: EAP 161-b-10/6], Bl. 2520035-25200560: 1) [geheime Meldung aus den besetzten Ostgebieten Nr. 12 vom 17. Juli 1942]: Rumänische Aktion gegen ukrainische Widerstandsbewegung (Bandera) und deren Zusammenhang mit dem Secret Service; Tod des Führers der OUN (Organisation Ukrainischer Nationalisten), [Semen Menda ?]; Absatz sowjetischer Fallschirmspringer; Exekution von Juden und Kommun...