Gábor Kemény (politician, 1910–1946)
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Baron Gábor Kemény (14 December 1910 – 19 March 1946) was a Hungarian politician, who served as
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in the Government of National Unity led by Szálasi between 1944 and 1945. He prevented the diplomatic protests against the terror. After the fall of Budapest he tried to escape into
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, but the arriving American troops captured him with other members of the
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's government. He was tried by the People's Tribunal in
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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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