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The police authorities are ordered to take no action, or discontinue any action taken for desertion against individuals who have reported under this order, and who join their units or designated transit centres. I have simultaneously ordered the military courts and the authorities to take action with the full and implacable rigour of law against all who fail to take this opportunity to return, or who fail to join their units or designated transit centres later than 2 p.m. December 2nd 1944. As a deterrent, let it hereby be known that after sentence had been passed by the competent courts martial the death sentence was carried out on thirteen deserters in Budapest, on November 26th, for their unforgivable crime against the nation. Military personnel absent without leave from their units are expressly commanded to obey this order which guarantees immunity from punishment on their return and report at once at their units or the designated headquarters, on pain of sharing the well-merited fate of the criminals. Beregfy m.p. Colonel-General Szombathelyi Levéltár [Archives of Szombathely], Kőszeg, mayoral records 1944, No. 5781. XXV Appeal of the Hungarian National Liberation Committee to the people of Budapest November 1944 We appeal to the people of Budapest not to obey any order of evacuation or mobilization. Let everyone remain where he is, or go into hiding, and by every possible method prevent the diabolical plan of the Germans and the traitor Arrow-Cross-men, who have conspired together to carry off the Hungarians. Public security, administrative and public works employees are particularly warned to remain in their own interests at their posts, citizens, the clergy and workers, though under threat, must defend their place of work and tools of their work, and demonstrate with sustained courage that they are part of the long-suffering Hungarian people. We have been given guarantees* that no harm will befall anyone without reason. Hungarian National Liberation Committee A Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt Párttörténeti Intézetének Archívuma. Röpiratgyűjtemény [Archives of the Institute of the Party History of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, collection of pamphlets], vol. Ill, 18/1944, No. 2408. Dokumentumok a magyar forradalmi munkásmozgalom történetéből [Documents on the History of the Hungarian Revolutionary Labour Movement, 1935-1945], Budapest, 1964, p. 585. * i.e. by the Soviet Army 116
