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Hungarian Ex-minister, on Trial As War Criminal, Blames Regent for Deportation of Jews

December 21, 1945
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Deportationof over half-million Hungarian Jews to concentration camps was ordered by Admiral Horthy, former Regent, Lazlo Endre, use time Hungarian Minister of State in the Ministry of the Interior, testified here today during the second day of his trial.

Endre and two other former government officials, Ander Jaress, ex-Minister of the Interier, and Lazl Baky, formerly Under-Secretary of the Interior, are being tried before a Peoples Court for directing the anti-Jewish persecutions in Hungary.

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