Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron

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Opening of World Eucharistic Congress before Parliament, 1938. Above: Regent Horthy and wife with Hitler at Berlin Opera House, 25 August 1938. Below: “Long Live Greater Hungary”: Marching into Losonc after first Vienna Award, 10 November 1938. Soldier to the front— leave-taking, 22 July 1941. Northern Transylvanian village after second Vienna Award, 1941. Above: Entering a Soviet village, summer 1942. Below: Vice-Regent Horthy and the Regent, 1942. Above: Vice-Regent preparing for flight before fatal crash, 20 August 1942. Below: Jews being taken to train station, 18 June 1944. Hungarian family fleeing from Transylvania before Soviets, 2 October 1944. Prime minister Ferenc Nagy and Mátyás Rákosi, general secretary of the Communist Party, 4 April 1947. ...