Gábor Kemény (politician, 1910–1946) explained

Gábor Kemény
Order:Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
Term Start:16 October 1944
Term End:27 March 1945
Primeminister:Ferenc Szálasi
Predecessor:Gusztáv Hennyey
Successor:János Gyöngyösi
Birth Date:1910 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Budapest, Second Hungarian Republic
Death Cause:Execution by hanging
Profession:politician
Party:Arrow Cross Party

Baron Gábor Kemény (14 December 1910  - 19 March 1946) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of National Unity led by Szálasi[1] between 1944 and 1945. He prevented the diplomatic protests against the terror. After the fall of Budapest he tried to escape into Western Europe, but the arriving American troops captured him with other members of the Arrow Cross Party's government. He was tried by the People's Tribunal in Budapest in open sessions and sentenced to death for war crimes and high treason. Kemény was hanged in 1946 in Budapest. He was the youngest member of that Government.

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  1. Book: Thomas Streissguth. Raoul Wallenberg: Swedish Diplomat and Humanitarian. 2001. The Rosen Publishing Group. 978-0-8239-3318-1. 65.