Chapter 326: Military Parade (Hungarian Worries)
After the signing of the humiliating Treaty of Trianon, the new nationalist forces of the far right in Hungary began to swell rapidly. Genbosh was appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom by Horti.
He was a former Austro-Hungarian officer, a positive Hungarian national independent, and one of the most important allies of the Regent of Horti.
Zula initiated and founded the so-called "Hungarian Defense Association", a civilian paramilitary organization that would later become an important part of Horthy's regaining control of the old Austro-Hungarian army, eventually helping Horti to bring down Béla's Hungarian Soviet power.
After the fall of the Hungarian Soviets, Zula was appointed Minister of Defence of Hungary, and his most important duty at that time was to lead the troops loyal to General Horthy and begin to capture and purge the Communists throughout Hungary.
It was this Zula who signed an important German-Hungarian trade agreement with Hilert, agreeing that Germany would exchange industrial products for Hungarian aluminium ore and agricultural products, and this agreement would be beneficial to both sides, Germany would get the important resources he wanted, and Hungary would get more jobs.
Hitler paid lip service to and supported Hungary's idea of reclaiming territory from Czechoslovakia, but he also made it clear that Germany would not support Hungary's attempt to regain territory from Romania and the Yugoslavs.
Hitler's thinking was very clear that a stable Balkan region was more in Germany's interests, and that the Third Reich had more important goals to achieve and would not waste its forces in this mud.
Hitler rarely broke his promise, and after the German annexation of the Czech Republic, Hungary brazenly invaded and occupied the newly declared independent Republic of Corpathian Ukraine (the original Czechoslovak Autonomous Province of the Ruthenians), and the Germans immediately recognized the Hungarians' right to rule this land.
With the news of France's defeat, the voice of Hungary to recover the remaining territories suddenly became loud, and everyone knew that if Britain lost the war again, it would mean that the arrogant and domineering little Entente countries would lose all their backstage.
As for Hitler's previous statement, given that the former German Führer was already a dead man, the Hungarians felt that they could still discuss it with the Germans again, and it was a big deal to show a little more benefits, and besides, the small Entente countries had always been loyal lackeys of Britain and France, and Hungary had always been an ally of Germany, so the new Führer should be able to distinguish between relatives and distances.
As the Hungarians expected, Britain and France were defeated and surrendered one after another, but the subsequent development of events completely deviated from their expectations.
The Germans suddenly and aggressively deployed Austria, and the Hungarians, who at first thought that the opportunity they had been waiting for had finally come, and that the Germans were ready to attack Yugoslavia first.
The rest of the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, with the exception of Serbia and Montenegro, was carved up from Hungary, and since it was basically a mountainous area that was difficult to farm and pastoral, the hatred between the two sides was not as deep as that of Romania.
Although it is a pity that it is not Romanian, no matter how thin the mosquito is, it is still a meat dish, and after the Hungarians have tasted the sweetness of the Czech Republic, this time even Horti has to comply with this public opinion between the government and the opposition.
It seems that the blood of the tribal ancestors suddenly burned in the veins, and Hungary assembled a heavy army of 60,000 men in thirty days, and then exercised troops on the Hungarian border with Yugoslavia, and just waiting for the German side to start, they immediately entered Yugoslavia and collected some old debts from the Serbs.
As mentioned earlier, the Serbian nationalists in Yugoslavia were quite radical, and they brutally oppressed all the aliens living in Yugoslavia who did not want to be assimilated by them, among which the Magyars, who retained a strong national color, bore the brunt of these years.
Just as the Hungarians were gearing up for a big fight, they could not believe that the main German army was welcomed into the Yugoslav border without firing a shot, while the German troops stationed on the Austrian border suddenly attacked Italy from the Alps and took the city of Rome within a week.
The fact that the Germans did not tell Hungary the truth from beginning to end, and Horthy can be said to have been completely kept in the dark, shocked the entire Hungarian government and the public, because it meant that Hungary had lost the trust of the Third Reich.
This is really not a joke, Hungary and Germany were originally united only for the purpose of mutual use, and the relationship between the two sides is not as close as that of Germany and Italy.
Now at the thought of the fate of Mussolini, Hitler's closest ally, Prince Regent Horti shuddered.
In the past two years, Hungarians have patronized and guarded their own acres and threes of land, and in just four years, they have changed four prime ministers.
Prime Minister Zula died in a hospital in Munich in 36 years due to cancer. Terrend, a radical right-winger, changed Hungary's electoral rules, first by abolishing open voting and then by changing voting criteria, stripping many Hungarians of their right to vote.
Eventually, because he got too close to the far-right fascist party "Arrow Cross", which angered the conservatives and Horthy in parliament, he was forced to resign as prime minister in May 38.
Tyronde's successor is Imreddy. Béla, a former Hungarian economy minister, is also an extreme right-winger.
The prime minister went further politically than Terrend, not only did he begin to turn to Germany and Italy, but he also tried to establish a German-style totalitarian government in Hungary, he learned from Germany to introduce censorship, and began to exclude and oppress Jews, causing huge economic losses to the Jewish community in Hungary in a short period of time.
In order to gain the support of the Jewish political group, Prime Minister Zula signed an agreement with Jewish politicians and plutocrats, agreeing that as long as he was in power, he would not sign any laws against race or press out policies that would harm the economic interests of Jews.
Historically, Hillet was very distracted by the pro-Jewish attitude of Zula's cabinet, and declared that Hungary would have to pay a price satisfactory to him if it wanted to gain his support.
At this time, Prime Minister Imredi is simply a Hungarian copy of Himmler, which not only aroused Holty's disgust and vigilance again, but also aroused conservative factions... In particular, the Jewish community retaliated against them.
In February 1939, seven months after Imredi came to power, someone suddenly came forward to reveal that His Excellency Prime Minister Imredi, who was madly anti-Semitic, was actually Jewish.
What could be more absurd, but after a parliamentary investigation hearing, it was found that what the whistleblower said was true, and that the prime minister's great-grandfather was indeed a Jew.
Imreddy, who had inherited all of his great-grandfather's inheritance at the time, was unable to legally dissociate himself from this blood relationship and was forced to resign in disgrace (in fact, according to the Jewish tradition of matrilineal tradition, he was not really Jewish). )
Finally, this man's brain still works, and as soon as he resigned, he ran to the army to avoid the limelight, otherwise he might be killed in the street by the far-right thugs he fostered and instigated.
Historically, this guy did not change his life, and he wanted to save his political future by organizing a new anti-Semitic party, and after defeat, he chose to fully defect to Germany and became a German political agent in Hungary, but after the war, he was sentenced to death for treason, and finally shot in a prison in Budapest.
And taking over the post of Prime Minister Imredi is Taylaki. Parr, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 20 to 21, was a true Hungarian patriot.
Before entering politics, Teleki was a well-known geographer and economist, and also served as the chief officer of the Hungarian Scout Association, and had a high reputation in both civil and political circles.
Ever since the chancellor came to power, he has been trying to get Hungary out of German influence, at least to maintain some autonomy in this alliance, not to be led by the nose by Germany and go further and further down the road to war.
What Teleki tried to avoid was to draw Hungary into the war with the Germans, who in his view were like a terrible plague that could not be won eventually.
He began to comprehensively suppress the activities of fascist political parties in Hungary, and even cooperated with Horthy to ban the most pro-Nazi far-right party, the "Arrow Cross Party" and several other fascist organizations, with the result that the right-wing trend in Hungary began to fall into a trough, and the "Arrow Cross Party" and its ilk could only go underground.
Hungarian politicians began to worry about whether the chancellor's actions had caused dissatisfaction with the new German head of state, and if so, it would be troublesome.
In addition to shouldering the military mission of the regent, this military expedition also wanted to do some explanation activities with the new German head of state, and if it was really unconvincing, Hungary was even willing to give up Prime Minister Teleki, presumably he was also willing to make a little sacrifice for the motherland.
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