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This volume surveys Hungary's defense policies in the era of 1938-1945. It focuses on the gradual involvement of the country in Germany's war and the partial rectification of Hungary's borders as defined by the Trianon Peace Treaty. It concludes with Hungary's failure to join the Grand Alliance, resulting in subsequent German occupation and the removal of Regent Horthy.
This volume surveys Hungary's defense policies in the era of 1938-1945. It focuses on the gradual involvement of the country in Germany's war and the partial rectification of Hungary's borders as defined by the Trianon Peace Treaty. It concludes with Hungary's failure to join the Grand Alliance, resulting in subsequent German occupation and the removal of Regent Horthy.
The first chapter discusses the "Jewish question" in Hungary and the rise of antisemitism in the 19th-early 20th centuries; the rest of the book deals with the period 1919-45. Hungary was the first European country after World War I to introduce antisemitic laws (in 1920). However, the Jews maintained their patriotism. Although he was an antisemite, Horthy was favorably inclined toward the assimilated and "useful" Budapest Jews. Discusses the anti-Jewish legislation in 1938-41, military labor service, and the deportations in 1944. Dwells on the behavior of Jewish leaders, particularly the Zsido Tanacs (Jewish Council) instituted in 1944. The leaders' failure to warn the Jews of the impending...
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