Departure sheet of Miklós Horthy and his family from Weilheim, Germany to Portugal.
Weilheim: 1948 dec. 20. Folded. 1 p. Two holes. In very good condition.
Document of Miklós Horthy, Hungarian statesman, regent of Hungary (1920-1944) and his family signing out from the address in Weilheim (Bavaria, Germany), where they were kept first by the Gestapo, then by the U.S. military police at the end of WWII
The former Regent of the Axis country Hungary, Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (1968–1957), arrived at Ashcan on May 21, 1945, together with a group of politicians including Hitler’s Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen and Richard Walther Darré the Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture, and became one of the eighty-six inmates of the Allied prisoner-of-war camp. Later on, Horthy was moved through a variety of detention locations in Germany, before getting interrogated in Nuremberg in late September 1945. Eventually, he got released in December 1945, and only returned to Nuremberg to testify as a witness at the war-crimes trials in 1948.
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