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Trials in Hungary

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Post by ansata1976 » 15 Feb 2009, 20:29

maybe someone can give me the information about War Crime Trials in Hungary after the war. I need informations about the trials, the defendants and their sentence. Even i am looking for a list of the execution dates and places.Are there Germans sentenced after the war in Hungary????

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I need more informations about these men and other executed men in Hungary:

Károly Beregfy
Ferenc Szálasi
László Endre
József Gera
Gábor Vajna
Jaross Andor
Ferenczy László
Bakay Szilárd
Heszlényi József
Messik János
Jány Gusztáv
Csia Sandor
Emil Szöllösi
András Kun
Döme Sztójay
Fidél Pálffy
László Bárdossy
József Vitéz Heszlényi
Iván Hindy
Béla Imrédy
Kassai Ferenc
Jurcsek Bela
Haro Kameny Gahor
Emil Kovarcz
Ference Rajniss
Lajos Schneller
Emil Szakvary
Lajos Szasz
Karoly Beregly

and other


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Post by David Thompson » 24 Mar 2009, 22:59

ansata1976 -- A lot of those fellows on your list were pretty prominent in their day. Have you tried google searches on the names? It might help pare down your requests. Bela Imredy alone produced 5,190 hits on a google name search. An AHF search produced 16 references to him, some with links. I'm reluctant to take a few hours off searching through my computer files for information that's available to you within seconds by a quick google search. Of course, if your list was shorter and more specific, it would take less time.

Bakay, Szilard (Szilárd) (1892-1946) [Altåbornagy (Hungarian Lieutenant-Field Marshal)] – commander, Hungarian 17th Light Division (formerly 17th Brigade) 1 Aug 1939-1 Aug 1942; chief, 21st Section of the Bureau of Ground Forces in the Hungarian Ministry of Defense 1943; commander, III Hungarian Corps 15 May 1943-1 Aug 1944; commander, Hungarian Budapest Corps 1944; commander, Hungarian Western Military District 1944; commander, Hungarian I Corps 1 Aug 1944-8 Oct 1944; commander, western military district of Hungary {arrested by the Germans 8 Oct 1944 and confined at concentration camp (Konzentrationslager - KL) Mauthausen; released by the Allies; voluntarily returned to Hungary; arrested by the Soviets for war crimes 1946; put on trial, sentenced to death and executed 1946 (Andrew L. Simon, Annotated Memoirs of Admiral Miklos Horthy, Regent of Hungary; Third Reich Factbook © Marcus Wendel; Steen Ammentorp, "Generals of WWII: Hungarian Generals," http://www.generals.dk/Hungary.htm ).}

Bardossy (Bárdossy), Dr. Lazlo (László) (1890-10.1.1946) -- Hungarian Foreign Minister 27 Jan 1941; Premier of Hungary 4 Apr 1941-10 Mar 1942 {escaped to Switzerland 1945; claimed diplomatic status to avoid confinement in a refugee camp; turned over by Swiss to allied authorities 4 May 1945; extradited to Hungary; put on trial by the Hungarian People's Court at Budapest for high treason; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 3 Nov 1945 (NYT 4 Nov 1945:35:1; LT 4 Nov 1945:3c; LT 5 Nov 1945:3c); executed at Budapest 10 Jan 1946 (NYT 2 Jan 1946:6:6; NYT 11 Jan 1946:9:2; LT 11 Jan 1946:3c); before he was executed, he exclaimed, "God preserve Hungary from this rabble;" body stolen by unknown persons 20 Jan 1946 (NYT 21 Jan 1946:2:2).(Annotated Memoirs of Miklos Horthy).}

Beregffy, Karolyi (Károlyi) (1888-1946) [Vezérezredes (Hungarian Colonel-General)] -- head of the Supply Bureau of the Hungarian Ministry of Defense; commander, Hungarian 2nd Motorized Brigade 1938-1939; commandant, Hungarian General Staff Academy 1939-1941; Hungarian Inspector-General of Border Guards 1939-1941; commander, Hungarian VI Corps 1941-1943; commander, Hungarian 3rd Army 1943-1944; commander, Hungarian 1st Army 1944; Hungarian Minister of Defense Oct 1944-May 1945; commander in chief of the Hungarian Armed Forces Oct 1944-May 1945; chief of the Hungarian General Staff 1944-1945 {captured 14 May 1945 by allied troops at Tann, Austria (LT 15 May 1945:2:c); extradited to Hungary; put on trial by a Hungarian court for war crimes; convicted, sentenced to death and executed 1946 (Steen Ammentorp, "Generals of WWII: Hungarian Generals http://www.generals.dk/Hungary.htm ).}

Csia, Sandor (?-1946) -- Hungarian Regency Council member {arrested and put on trial for war crimes by a Hungarian court; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging; executed at Budapest 19 or 20 Mar 1946 (NYT 20 Mar 1946:4:6; LT 21 Mar 1946:3d).}

Endre, Dr. Vitez Lazlo (László) (?-29.3.1946) -- Hungarian Undersecretary of the Interior {arrested and put on trial by a Hungarian court for war crimes; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 7 Jan 1946; executed 29 Mar 1946 (NYT 8 Jan 1946:10:4; Pictorial History of the Second World War vol. 5, p. 2203).}

Ferenczy, Laszlo (László) (?-1946) [Hungarian gendarmerie officer] – {executed in Hungary 1946 ([email protected]).}

Imredy, Bela (?-28.2.1946) -- Premier of Hungary 1938-1939; Hungarian Economics Minister 1944-1945 {arrested by American troops 16 Jun 1945 near Innsbrueck (NYT 17 Jun 1945:7:3); impending trial announced 5 Oct 1945 by Hungarian government (NYT 6 Oct 1945:7:1); put on trial by Hungarian court for war crimes and treason; convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad 23 Nov 1945 (NYT 24 Nov 1945:6:4; LT 24 Nov 1945:3c); executed at Marko jail, Budapest on 28 Feb 1946 (NYT 1 Mar 1946:12:6; 26 Mar 1946:17:2; LT 1 Mar 1946:3d; Pictorial History of the Second World War vol. 5, p. 2186).}

Jarosz, Andor (?-11.4.1946) -- Hungarian Minister of the Interior {arrested and put on trial for war crimes by a Hungarian court; convicted and sentenced to death 7 Jan 1946 (NYT 8 Jan 1946:10:4); executed by firing squad 11 Apr 1946 (NYT 12 Apr 1946:5:5).}

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Dr. Franz Anton Basch (Hungarian: Basch Ferenc Antal) (July 13, 1901 – April 27, 1946) was a German Nazi politician, the chairman of Volksbund and the leader of Germans in Hungary.
Franz was born in Zurich. He was a student of Jakob Bleyer at the University of Budapest between 1920 and 1924. In 1925 he became the secretary of the German Cultural Society of Hungary. He published many works in this period.
From 1930, he began to express extreme nationalist propaganda and became a follower of Nazism. In 1934 he resigned his position because he affronted the Hungarian nation with his ideas. In 1938 he founded his Nazi organization the People's Union Of Germans In Hungary (the Volskbund) and became the chairman of it. In 1940 Hitler appointed him the leader of Germans in Hungary (the Danube Swabians and the Transylvanian Saxons).
In the end of the year 1944 he escaped to Germany, but was delivered up to Hungary in 1945. He was marked as a war criminal and executed in Budapest in 1946.


Döme Sztójay born Demeter Sztojakovich (January 5, 1883 – August 22, 1946) was a Hungarian soldier and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Hungary during World War II.
Born in Versec in a Serb family, Sztójay joined the Austro-Hungarian Army as a young man and served as a colonel during World War I. After the war, Sztójay served in Admiral Miklós Horthy’s counter-revolutionary army, specializing in counter-espionage. After Horthy became Regent of Hungary, Sztójay was promoted to general and served as a military attaché in Berlin from 1925 to 1933. He changed his name from Sztojakovich to Sztójay in 1927. From 1933 to 1935, Sztójay served in the Ministry of Defence. In 1935, Sztójay was named Gyula Gömbös’s Ambassador to Germany, a position he would hold until 1944. As ambassador, Sztójay formed strong ties with the German foreign ministry due to his pro-German, pro-fascist views. During his tenure as ambassador, Sztójay often voiced support for German policies to his superiors in Hungary. In March 1944, the German Army occupied Hungary and removed Prime Minister Miklós Kállay from office. The Germans then forced Miklós Horthy to choose a new prime minister. The German Plenipotentiary for Hungary, Edmund Veesenmayer, proposed that Béla Imrédy be made prime minister, but Horthy balked at the idea and suggested Sztójay. Horthy believed that Sztójay, a soldier of Hungary, would not totally give in to German demands. The Germans readily approved of Horthy’s choice, and on March 23, 1944, Sztójay was appointed Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
As prime minister, Sztójay was essentially a puppet of the Third Reich. He stacked his cabinet with fascists such as Béla Imrédy, legalized Ferenc Szálasi’s fascist Arrow Cross Party, increased Hungarian troop levels on the Eastern Front, dissolved the nation’s labor unions, jailed political opponents, and cracked down on left wing politicians and activists. Sztójay refused to accept Horthy's authority and carried out massive persecutions of Jews, which within two months escalated to deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Horthy quickly became appalled by Sztójay’s actions and demanded his removal as prime minister, but Adolf Hitler sternly refused to implement any such course of action. Horthy refused to give in entirely, however, and used his influence to stop the deportations of Hungary’s Jews and to force Bela Imrédy out of Sztójay’s cabinet. The Germans finally submitted to Horthy’s pressure in August 1944 and Sztójay was removed as prime minister. When Horthy was removed from power by the Germans in October 1944, Sztójay was not reappointed prime minister. Sztójay subsequently fled Hungary when the Germans were driven out of the country by the Soviet army in April 1945. Sztójay was later captured by American troops and extradited to Hungary in October 1945, after which time he was tried by a Communist People’s Tribunal in Budapest. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against the Hungarian people, sentenced to death, and executed by a firing squad in Budapest in 1946.

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Basch, Dr. Franz Anton (1901-27.4.1946) – German People's Leader (Volksgruppenfűhrer), Ethnic Union of Germans in Hungary (Volksbund der Deutschen in Ungarn - VDU) 1938-1945 {arrested and put on trial on treason charges by a Hungarian court; convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad; executed 27 Apr 1946 (NYT 27 Apr 1946:2:5; Foreign Legions of the Third Reich 3, p. 108).}

Hindy, Ivan (Iván) K. (1890-1946) [Vezérezredes (Hungarian Colonel-General) (Steen Ammentorp) or Lieutenant-General (Third Reich Factbook)] -- commander, Hungarian I Corps (Eastern Front) 16 Oct 1944-12 Feb 1945 {sentenced to death and executed 1946; no details (Steen Ammentorp, "Generals of WWII: Hungarian Generals," http://www.generals.dk/Hungary.htm; Third Reich Factbook).}

Jany (Jány), Gustav (Gustáv) (1883-27.11.1947) [Vezérezredes (Hungarian Colonel-General)] -- chief of staff, Hungarian 2nd Mixed Brigade 1928-1931; commandant, Hungarian Ludovica Academy 1931-1936; commander, Hungarian 3rd Mixed Brigade 1936-1938; head of the Hungarian Military Chancellery 1938; Hungarian Adjutant-General 1938; commander, Hungarian I Corps 1 Feb 1939-1 Mar 1940; commander, Hungarian 2d Army (Russia 1941-1943) 1 Mar 1940-5 Aug 1943 [Knights Cross] {arrested and put on trial by a Hungarian people's court at Budapest for war crimes and for causing the deaths of 140,000 Hungarian soldiers at Voronezh in Jan 1943 by "irresponsible generalship"; convicted and sentenced to death 6 Oct 1947 (LT 7 Oct 1947:3d); execution announced by Soviet news service Tass 27 Nov 1947 (NYT 28 Nov 1947:13:6; Foreign Legions of the 3d Reich 3, p. 132; ABR-Hungary; Third Reich Factbook).}

Kassai-Schallmeyer, Francis (Ferenc) (?-30.10.1946) -- Hungarian Foreign Office propaganda chief {arrested and put on trial by a Hungarian court; convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad; executed at Budapest 30 Oct 1946 (NYT 31 Oct 1946:8:5).}

Palffy, Count Fidel (?-2.3.1946) -- Hungarian Agriculture Minister {arrested and put on trial by a Hungarian court at Budapest for war crimes; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 15 Dec 1945 (NYT 17 Dec 1945:3:8); executed at Budapest 2 Mar 1946 (NYT 3 Mar 1946:32:1).}

Rainess, Ferenc -- Hungarian Minister of Education {arrested and put on trial by the Hungarian People's Court at Budapest; convicted and sentenced to death 8 Dec 1945 (NYT 10 Dec 1945:3:4); subsequent fate unknown.}

Remenyi-Schneller (Reményi-Schneller), Dr. Lajos (1892-24.8.1946) -- Hungarian Finance Minister {arrested and put on trial by the Hungarian People's Court at Budapest; convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad 22 Mar 1946 (NYT 23 Mar 1946:2:2); executed at Budapest 24 Aug 1946 (NYT 25 Aug 1946:36:1).}

Szalasi, Ferenc (1897-12.3.1946) – Hungarian founder of the Arrow Cross Party (Nyilakeresztes Párt) 1937; Hungarian head of State 1944-1945 {Hungarian government announced impending trial 5 Oct 1945 (NYT 6 Oct 1945:7:1; NYT 11 Dec 1945:5:5); put on trial by a Hungarian court for war crimes and crimes against the people; convicted and sentenced to death 8 Dec 1945 (NYT 10 Dec 1945:3:4; LT 11 Dec 1945:3d); put on trial by the Hungarian People's Court at Budapest; again convicted and sentenced to death 1 Mar 1946 (NYT 2 Mar 1946:6:5); hanged at Budapest 12 Mar 1946 (NYT 13 Mar 1946:13:4; LT 13 Mar 1946:3d; Encyclopedia of the Third Reich p. 942).}

Szasz, Lajos (?-24.8.1946) -- Hungarian Minister of Industry {put on trial by the Hungarian People's Court at Budapest; convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad 22 Mar 1946 (NYT 23 Mar 1946:2:2); executed at Budapest 24 Aug 1946 (NYT 25 Aug 1946:36:1).}

Szoelloesi, Eugen or Jenoe (?-1946) -- Hungarian Deputy Premier {arrested and put on trial for war crimes by a Hungarian court; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging; executed at Budapest 19 or 20 Mar 1946 (NYT 20 Mar 1946:4:6; LT 21 Mar 1946:3d).}

Szombathyeli, Ferenc (1887-4.11.1946) [Vezérezredes (Hungarian Colonel General)] -- chief of staff Hungarian 3rd Mixed Brigade 1931-1933; aide-de-camp to Commander in Chief of the Hungarian Army 1933-1936; commandant Hungarian Ludovika Military Academy 1936-1938; deputy chief Hungarian General Staff 1938-1939; commander, Hungarian VIII Corps on the Eastern Front 15 Jan 1939-1 Aug 1941; commander, Hungarian Carpathian Group on the Eastern Front 1941; chief Hungarian General Staff 7 Sept 1941-19 Apr 1944{arrested and put on trial by a Hungarian court; convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment (Andrew L. Simon, Annotated Memoirs of Admiral Miklos Horthy, Regent of Hungary); extradited to Yugoslavia; put on trial by the Voivodina Supreme Court of Yugoslavia for massacres at Novy Sad and Baka; convicted and sentenced to death by shooting 31 Oct 1946 (NYT 1 Nov 1946:16:3); executed at Novi Sad 4 Nov 1946 with Joszef Grassy (LT 5 Nov 1946:3e; Andrew L. Simon, Annotated Memoirs of Admiral Miklos Horthy, Regent of Hungary) or 5 Nov 1946 (History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War p. 529, United Nations War Crimes Commission, London: HMSO, 1948). (Third Reich Factbook; Steen Ammentorp, "Generals of WWII: Hungarian Generals," http://www.generals.dk/Hungary.htm).}

Szotjay (Sztójay), Dr. Döme (1883-24.8.1946) [Vezérezredes (Hungarian Colonel-General)] -- Hungarian Military Attaché to Berlin 1925-1933; Hungarian Ambassador to Berlin 1933-1944; Hungarian Premier 1944; Foreign Minister {arrested and put on trial by the Hungarian People's Court at Budapest; convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad 22 Mar 1946 (NYT 23 Mar 1946:2:2); executed at Budapest 24 Aug 1946 (NYT 25 Aug 1946:36:1). (Steen Ammentorp, "Generals of WWII: Hungarian Generals," http://www.generals.dk/Hungary.htm).}

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Re: Trials in Hungary

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Post by ansata1976 » 25 Mar 2009, 17:24

My hungarian is very bad and a lot of resources are not in english. I tried different translations tools but without success.

Do you have more informations about the following men:

Messik János
Jány Gusztáv
Emil Szöllösi
József Vitéz Heszlényi
Jurcsek Bela
Haro Kameny Gahor
Emil Kovarcz
Ference Rajniss
Lajos Schneller
Emil Szakvary
Lajos Szasz
Hubay Kálmán
Budinszky László
Kovarcz Emil
Rajniss Ferenc
Henney Árpád
Szakváry Emil
Ruszkay Jenő

I am not really sure about the spelling of the names.

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Post by David Thompson » 25 Mar 2009, 17:40

ansata1976 -- You asked:
Do you have more informations about the following men:
See my post at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 5#p1315075

For the availability of machine translations into English, see http://www.lexilogos.com/english/translation.htm and http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ . Sometimes, if you just google the name, the search engine offers a ready translation to the various hits.

For Budinszky László see:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6num%3D100

and the linked sources.

You also remarked:
I am not really sure about the spelling of the names.
This is a constant problem. Irregularity appears to be the rule.

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Ruszkay-Ranzenberger, Eugen "Jeno" Vitez (1887-22.6.1946) [Hungarian General] – Hungarian Military Attaché to Ankara (Turkey); Hungarian Military Attaché to Sofia (Bulgaria); Hungarian Military Attaché to Bucharest (Romania); Hungarian Inspector of anti-aircraft artillery 1 Feb 1936-15 Aug 1937; commander, Hungarian IV Corps 1 Oct 1938-1 Feb 1940; Hungarian deputy Interior Minister {arrested and put on trial by a Hungarian court; convicted and sentenced to death; executed by firing squad at Marko Jail, Budapest 22 Jun 1946 with 7 spectators wounded by ricocheting bullets during the execution (NYT 23 Jun 1946:3:6).( Steen Ammentorp, "Generals of WWII: Hungarian Generals," http://www.generals.dk/Hungary.htm).}

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Post by ansata1976 » 21 Apr 2009, 00:15

Szívós Sándor 1945.02.03. executed

Rotyis Peter 1945.02.03. executed

Muray Lipót 1945.05.01. executed

Spóner Rudolf 1945.05.08. executed

László Bárdossy 1946.01.10. executed

Pálffy Fidel 1946.03.02 executed

Imrédy Béla 1946.02.28. executed

Budinszky László 1946.03.07. executed

Rajniss Francis 1946.03.12. executed

Beregfy Charles 1946.03.12. executed

Csia Sándor* * 1946.03.19. executed

Gera, József 1946.03.12. executed

Baron Gábor Kemény * 1946.03.19. executed

Szálasi Ferenc 1946.03.12. executed

Szöllősi Jenő 1946.03.19 executed

Vajna Gábor 1946.03.12. executed

Martin Zöldy issued to Yugoslavia execution: 1946.11.05.

Grassy Joseph issued to Yugoslavia execution: 1946.11.05

László Baky 1946.03.29 executed

Endre László 1946.03.28. executed

Andor Jaross 1946.04.11. executed

Basch Ferenc 1946.04.26. executed

Kovarcz Emil 1946.05.02. executed

Peter Hain 1946.06.27. executed

Ruszkay Jenő 1946.06.22. executed

László Ferenczy 1946.05.31. executed

Kálmán Hubay 1946.06.22 executed

Lajos Reményi-Schneller 1946.08.24. executed

Lajos Szász 1946.08.10. executed

Sztójay Döme 1946.08.24. executed

Ferenc Kassai-Schallmayer 1946.10.30. executed

Mihály Kolosváry-Borcsa 1946.12.06. executed


Ferenc Szombathelyi 1946.09.issued to Yugoslavia 1946.11.05. executed

Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner issued to Yugoslavia 1946.11.05. executed


Hajnácskőy László 1947.02.24. executed

Zoltán Bilkey-Papp 1951.03.21. executed


Gusztáv Jány 1947.11.26. executed

László Pünkösthy 1948.04.21. executed

Zoltán Bosnyák 1952.10.04. executed

László Dezső 1949.05.30. executed

Pásztóy Amon 1949.08.10. executed


páter Kiss Szaléz 1946.12.10 executed.

Kizmann Otto 1946.12.10 executed.

Donáth György executed 1947.10.23

Kornel Szabo 1948.09.09 executed.

Nicholas Királyfalvi 1948.06.11 executed.

Viktor Csornoky 1948.12.07 executed.

Laszlo Rajk 1949.10.15 executed.

Tibor Szőnyi 1949.10.15 executed.

Szalai András 1949.10.15 executed.

George Pálffy 1949.10.24 executed.

Béla Korondi 1949.10.24 executed.

Horvath Otto 1949.10.24 executed.

Németh Dezső 1949.10.24 executed.

Marschall László 1949.12.29 executed.

Imre Geiger 1950.05.08 executed.

Zoltan Radó 1950.05.08 executed.

Endre Szebenyi 1950.05.26 executed.

András Villányi 1950.05.26 executed.

Ferenc Vági 1950.05.26 executed

László Sólyom 1950.08.19 executed.

Beleznay István 1950.08.19 executed.

Illy Gustav 1950.08.19 executed.

Pórffy György 1950.08.19 executed.

Révay Kálmán 1950.08.19 executed.

Gustav Merényi 1950.08.19 executed.

Väike George 1950.08.26 executed.

Lajos Diettrich 1950.08.26 executed.

János Blahó 1951.03.30. executed
Istvan Kovacs 1951.03.30 executed

Ferenc Vezér 1951.08.03 executed.

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Thanks, ansata1976.

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Post by ansata1976 » 23 Apr 2009, 22:58

Hungary convicted since 1945 on the basis of Regulation No 81/45 on the People's courts, war crimes and crimes grass roots than 19,000 from 40,000 as Nazi criminals and collaborators accused persons. There were 380 death sentences imposed. How many Germans were convicted, is unknown.

The Provisional Government of Hungary took the prosecution of Nazi criminals since December 1944 and continued immediately after the war, special courts - called "people's tribunals" - for their procedure. These have been since the takeover of the Communist Party of Hungary accelerated. By the end of 1946 condemned the special courts, most Hungarian politicians, with the German Reich and the Nazis cooperated or had prepared for this cooperation.

Example for the Hungarian procedure was the trial of László Bárdossy, as Prime Minister of Hungary 1941-1942's declaration of war against the Soviet Union had enforced. He was a constitutional breach and of involvement in killing Jews in Kamenz-Podolski and Novi Sad and guilty on 10 January 1946 were executed by hanging.

The death sentences against Márton Zöldy and Jozsef Grassy at the Novi Sad massacre involved were from an appellate court lifted. But after their subsequent extradition to Yugoslavia, the territory of which the massacre took place, they were there again sentenced to death and executed.

On 1 March 1946 was also Bardossys predecessor Béla Imrédy executed: he should as prime minister of Hungary from 1938 to 1939, the first two anti-Jewish laws and prepared the second signatory. He was rehabilitated after 1989.

Most government members of the cabinets of Döme Sztójay and Ferenc Szálasi were also in the March / April 1946 executed: Jaross including Andor, the former interior minister, and two of his secretaries of state. You should looting Jewish property and deportations of Hungarian Jews have been responsible. Because it has been proven involvement Emil Kovacs, leader of the Arrow Cross, Peter Hain, leader of the Hungarian and German secret police agent, and Laszlo Ferenczy executed by the gendarmerie.

1967, Arrow Cross leader further accused. 16 have been long forced to pay Vilmos Kroszl, Lajos Németh and Péter Sándor were executed .

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Post by Georges M. Croisier » 04 May 2009, 21:24

The following Arrow Cross leaders were extrated to Hungary by the US together with Ferenc Szalasi, executed 12.03.1946.
What happened to the others:

Béla Imrédy, executed 28.02.1946
László Bárdossy, executed 10.01.1946
Lajos Reményi-Schneller, executed 24.08.1946
Vilmos Hellenbronth, ... ?
Erno Gömbös, ... ?
Andor Jaross, executed 11.04.1946
Jenö Szöllösi, executed 19.03.1946
László Endre, executed 28.03.1946 (together with Lazlo Baky)
Antal Kunder, died 1968, what was the sentence ?
Ferenc Kassai-Schallmayer, executed 30.10.1946

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Post by ansata1976 » 04 May 2009, 23:48

Vilmos Hellenbronth
Republican presidential pardon October 21 1946, received life imprisonment. Released in 1963. Until his death he worked as translator.

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Post by David Thompson » 05 May 2009, 01:16

Georges -- Antal Kunder was sentenced to life imprisonment, according to David M. Crowe, The Holocaust: Roots, History and Aftermath, p. 423:

http://books.google.com/books?id=LB_HLH ... #PPA423,M1

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Post by Georges M. Croisier » 05 May 2009, 16:15

Thanks to the fellow researchers for the kind information.
What was the whereabout of Captain Ernö Gömbös, son of the former Prime Minister of Hungary Gyula Vitez Gömbös and military assistent - aide de camp to Szalasi ?
Did he received a death or prison sentence ? What was the date or year of his death ?
Thanks again for the interest to this topic.

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