HUNGARY -- Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84) [CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS -- Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records]

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Hungary allied with Nazi Germany early in the war. From 1939 on, Germany allowed Hungary to share in some of her booty. Hungary profited from the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia; she obtained a slice of Rumania; and she participated in the invasion and subsequent partition of Yugoslavia (1941). In June 1941, Hungary declared war aginst the U.S.S.R., at Germany's behest. In December 1941 Hungary formally entered the war against Britain and the United States. Germany, antagonized by Hungarian attempts to negotiate with the Allies, occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944, and in April the Nazis swept away all pretenses of Hungary's position as an independent ally. Under SS supervision some 400,000 Jewish people between March and July 1944, mostly from outside Budapest, were sent to the Auschwitze concentration camp. In late summer 1944, Hungary, under the leadership of Admiral Horthy, stopped the deportations. In September 1944 Hungary went to war against Rumania and by the middle of the next month Russian military forces were on Hungarian soil. A Hungarian-Soviet preliminary armisttice was concluded on October 11, 1944.

Records of the U.S. Legation and Mission, Budapest, Hungary
General Records 1936-1941, 1945-1949, 1953, 1954, 1956-1958 (Entry 2691)
   
                Boxes 1-179 and 1 location: 350/60/20/05
        1941 (Budapest Legation)
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        26  850.6  Insurance
                        851.6  Banks, Banking 
            851.6  Bank of England
            851.6  Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest
            851.6  National Bank of Hungary location: 350/60/21/02
        1945 (Budapest Mission)
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        58  711  War Criminals (5 folders)
            711.3  Proclaimed List, British Statutory List, etc.
            711.3  Trading With Enemy location: 350/60/21/06
        59-61  711.9  Hungarian Property, Reparations and Restitution, etc.
location: 350/60/21/07
        64  820.02  OSS Reports (3 folders) location: 350/60/21/07
        65  840.1  Jewish Property location: 350/60/21/07
        66  848  Relief
            850  Economic Matters
            850.31  Property Census location: 350/60/22/01
        67  851  Blocked Assets
            851  Finance, Government
            851  Miscellaneous
            851.5  Currency
            851.6  Hungarian Commercial Bank of pest
            851.6  National bank of Hungary (2 folders)
            851.6  Banks, Banking
            851.7  Stock Exchanges
            851.51  Foreign Funds Control
            851.51  Exchange location: 350/60/22/01
        1946 (Budapest Legation)
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        95  711  War Criminals (8 folders)
            711.3  Cementia Holding Company (2 folders)
            711.3  Komjathy and Company
            711.3  Proclaimed List of Blocked Nationals
            711.3  Tokalon Products
            711.3  West Orient Company (2 folders) location: 350/60/22/05
        96  711.5  Admiral Horthy (2 folders) location: 350/60/22/05
        96-100 711.9  Hungarian Property, Reparations and Restitution, etc.
location: 350/60/22/05
        103  840.1  Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry [condition of Jews]
            840.1  Jewish Matters
            840.1  Jewish Problems (2 folders)
            840.1  Jewish Property (2 folders)
            840.1  Jewish Refugee Children
            840.3  Looted Art location: 350/60/22/06
        104  848  Relief location: 350/60/22/06
        105-106 850  Economic Matters location: 350/60/22/06
        106  850.31  Property Census
            850.6  Insurance
            851  Financial Conditions
            851  Blocked Assets (2 folders) location: 350/60/22/06
        107  851  Financial Reports (Monthly)
            851.5  Currency
            851.5  Gold Coins location: 350/60/22/06
        108  851.51  Exchange Control
            851.6  Banks, Banking location: 350/60/22/07
        1947
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        125  711  War Criminals (ca. 20 folders)
            711.3  Corchos de Andalvlia S.A. location: 350/60/23/02

        126  711.5  Admiral Horthy location: 350/60/23/02
        126-131 711.9  Hungarian Property, Reparation and Restitution, etc.
location: 350/60/23/02
        136  848  Relief Programs location: 350/60/23/04
        136-137 850  Economic Matters location: 350/60/23/04
        137  850.6  Insurance (3 folders)
            850  Safehaven location: 350/60/23/04
        138  851  Financial Conditions
            851  Blocked Assets
            851  Financial Reports (Monthly)
            851.5  Currency
            851.5  Gold Coins location: 350/60/23/04
        139  851.6  Banks, Banking (10 folders) location: 350/60/23/04
        1948
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        157-158 711  War Criminals location: 350/60/23/07
        158  711.3  Blocked Assets
            711.5  Nicholas Horthy location: 350/60/23/07
        158-160 711.9  Hungarian Property, Restitution and Reparations, etc.
location: 350/60/23/07
        167  840.1  Jews
            840.3  Looted Art location: 350/60/24/01
        169  848  UNRRA location: 350/60/24/01
        170-172 850  Economic Matters location: 350/60/24/01
        173  851  Blocked Assets
            851.6  Banks, Banking (8 folders) location: 350/60/24/02

Classified General Records 1946-1948, 1950-1952

        Boxes 1-32 location: 350/60/24/03
        1947 
        Box #  File #  File Title or Subject
        4  840.1  Jewish Property
            840.3  Looted Art location: 350/60/24/03

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