National Council of People’s Courts, 1945-1950

National Council of People’s Courts, 1945-1950 

Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa, 1945-1950 

National Council of People’s Courts, 1945-1950 

Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa, 1945-1950 

171 boxes, 20 vols., 21,52 linear metres 

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 of anti-Jewish measures and many other categories of Holocaust perpetrators and bystanders. The records of the National Council of People’s Courts mostly contain administrative documents pertaining to everyday work as well as the verdicts of the trials.