On October 15, 1944, Horthy gave power to Ferenc Szálasi, the leader of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement, who commands the continuation of the final battle and the protection of the country’s honour at all costs. Szálasi sees with a clear head that it is not possible to negotiate with Soviet Bolshevism, and that it would not lead to the continuation of Hungarian revisionist politics, or to preserve the incomprehensibility of the Hungarian people and to save the intellectual-material goods of the Hungarian people.Seger eller Sibirien! var det lättbegripliga budskapet på pilkorsarnas posters.
The Szálasi government does nothing but try to save the one that can be saved in an impossible situation, as a result of which 1 million civilians can escape from suffering and deportations to the West, we manage to secure the Holy Crown and the country’s gold reserves, etc.
Pamphlets bearing the slogan “Victory or Siberia!” papered the streets, while propaganda posters displaying an equal sign between the Soviet hammer and sickle and the Star of David proclaimed that “Jews and the Soviets are the death of Hungary.”Här kan man läsa om hur den sista krigsvintern i Ungern beskrivs i dagböcker och brev från den tiden. En ung dam vid namn Klára Szebeny (1920-2015) berättar bland annat om tron på "mirakelvapen".
By forcing Hungarian society to participate in a senseless war, the Fascists turned the nation into a war zone, thereby causing an incalculable amount of both human and material loss. The Premontre monk, Pius Zimándi, was not far from the truth when he wrote in his journal that “Now we truly find ourselves in the hands of our Good Shepherd. At most this Szálasi putsch can only prolong the catastrophe, not put an end to it. At the very most we can expect the Russians won’t be here in a week, but in two or three.”
In the diary she, in effect, says nothing, even in hindsight, about any events of 1944, except that for a while people wanted to believe in the myth of the reputed “secret weapon”—perhaps emanating ultimately from the Germans’ secret attempt to develop an atom bomb—that would win the war. Here it is worthwhile to contrast Dévényiné’s June 17 reaction in real time to this secret weapon rumor that was much touted in the newspapers:
The newspapers are full of news about the Germans’ new weapon. Today the Vértes couple were here and Vértes kept on glorifying the weapon: he said that with this he believed that the Germans will win the war. It’s some kind of flying rocket, which they used to bomb London.
[Az újságok tele vannak a németek új fegyverével. Ma Vértesék is itt voltak és Vértes is csak a fegyvert dicsőítette: azt mondta, ezzel elhiszi hogy megnyerik a németek a háborút. Valami repülő rakéta, Londont bombázták vele.]
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