hu-002739-mnl ol xx 4
type: RecordSet
archivist note: Description was prepared by László Csősz.
has or had script: Latn
other finding aids: fond
publication note: a jogszolgaltatas felso szervei 1945-.html
sources: fond
has beginning date: 1945
has end date: 1950
has or had holder: hu-002739
has or had some members with language: hun
has or had subject: 337
has or had subject: 393
has or had subject: 003144
has or had subject: 474
has or had subject: 1003
has or had subject: 1218
has or had subject: 1130
has or had subject: 106
has or had title: National Council of People’s Courts 1945-1950
has record set type: Collection
history: In 1949, all the people’s courts were disbanded and the records of open criminal proceedings were allocated to the Budapest Criminal Court (Budapesti Büntetőtörvényszék). In the 1950s, the bulk of the trial materials were taken into the custody of state security organizations, which often re-organized the files. The material was taken to the archives in several phases in the 1970s-1990s. The bulk of the records of the People’s Courts are in the Budapest Municipal Archives.
history: People's court (népbíróság) is a term referring to special criminal courts established by the decree of the Interim National Government of Hungary on January 25, 1945. The primary function of people’s courts was to initiate criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of war crimes and the so-called crimes against the people. Their sphere of jurisdiction extended to Hungarian citizens, including the members of the army and law enforcement agencies as well as to foreign citizens captured in or extradited to Hungary. The supreme appellate court of the people’s courts was the Budapest-based National Council of People’s Courts (Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa). Its presiding judge was the superior authority of all People’s Courts.
identifier: MNL OL XX-4
record resource extent: 171 boxes, 20 vols., 21,52 linear metres
scope and content: 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.
title: Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa, 1945-1950