Magyar Warriors Vol 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945 Bernd Dnes
The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvdsg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations…
Specifikacia Magyar Warriors Vol 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945 Bernd Dnes
The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvdsg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking for a strong ally, who would help it to recover at least some of the territories containing sizeable Magyar ethnic populations that had been lost after the First World War. Initially, in the mid-1930s, Italy gave political assistance and supplied military materiel; then - on the eve of the Second World War - Germany also lent some support. In November 1938, Hungary managed to peacefully recover a chunk of its former territory from Czechoslovakia, followed by the Sub-Carpathian area during a brief border war in March 1939, and then the northern part of Transylvania from Rumania in August 1940. Later, in April 1941, the Bachka region and parts