Eichmann and Sassen interview

László Endre

Hungarian state secretary involved in the 1944 deportation of Hungary’s Jews.

About

László Endre was a Hungarian Interior Ministry state secretary in 1944 and a leading organizer of ghettoization and deportation.

He worked with Adolf Eichmann’s team after the German occupation of Hungary. Hungarian offices and gendarmes carried out the roundups and transports.

In this interview

Eichmann mentions Endre as an eager Hungarian partner and says he often passed matters through him at the Interior Ministry.

Selected pages

  • Page 74

    Eichmann names Dr. L.E. in the Hungarian Interior Ministry as a force pushing the deportations.

  • Page 92

    A quoted passage says Eichmann promised L.E. that no deported Jew would return alive.

  • Page 94

    Eichmann says he smoothed matters with Hungarian officials through State Secretary L.E.