Arrow Cross Party, 1932–1945

Arrow Cross Party, 1932–1945 

Nyilaskeresztes Párt, 1932–1945 

Arrow Cross Party, 1932–1945 

Nyilaskeresztes Párt, 1932–1945 

52 boxes, 7,06 linear metres 

The first part of the collection (Boxes1-3) contains the survived records of the Hungarian National Socialist Party and its successor, the Arrow Cross Party, mostly from the war years. The material includes the documents of party administration (registered as well as unregistered fragments), cashier’s and registry books, regulations, orders, circulars and other internal correspondence, an undated brief history of the party, programs and flyers of the Hungarian National Socialist Party and various extreme right wing splinter groups, speeches, studies and other publications of party leader Ferenc Szálasi, and other prominent figures, including Pál Vágó, Ödön Málnási, Gábor Vajna, László Budinszky and Lajos Gruber, bills (törvényjavaslat), proposals, interpellations by and correspondence of the party MPs, reports to the Great Council (nagytanács, the central governing body of the party) and meetings of county leaders, newspaper clippings, flyers and other party publications. The second and largest part of the collection contains the personal files of party members arranged into a card index (Boxes 4-56) in an alphabetical order from the years 1939–1945.