Gábor Vajna
Gábor Vajna [ 'ɡaːbor' vɒjnɒ ] (born November 4, 1891 in Kézdivásárhely , Austria-Hungary ; died March 12, 1946 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician . From 1944 to 1945 he was Minister of the Interior in the Arrow Cross government under Ferenc Szálasi . He was convicted as a war criminal.
Life
Vajna was a confidante of Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi. Vajna became Minister of the Interior in the Szálasi government on October 15, 1944.
On October 17, 1944, Adolf Eichmann and the German representatives in Hungary, Edmund Veesenmayer and Otto Winkelmann , demanded the transfer of " loan Jews " to the German Reich. On October 18, the government agreed to provide the German Reich with 50,000 Jewish men and women as work slaves for the armaments industry by the end of the war . The total number of “loan Jews” delivered up to December 1, 1944 was 76,209. Most of them died either on the death march, in concentration camps or during the digging work on the southeast wall .
Gábor Vajna was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the Second World War and was hanged in public with Ferenc Szálasi, Károly Beregfy and József Gera on March 12, 1946 in Budapest .
literature
- Randolph L. Braham : The politics of genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary. Columbia University Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-231-05208-1
Web links
- "Germany demands Hungarian forced laborers" ( Raoul Wallenberg )
- “Dark chapter in Hungary's history” (Eng.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Randolph L. Braham : The politics of genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary , Columbia University Press, New York 1981, p. 852
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vajna, Gábor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian politician and National Socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kézdivásárhely , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1946 |
| Place of death | Budapest , Hungary |