Merk Zsuzsa - Bálint Attila: Baja is town for 300 years - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 27. (Baja, 1999)

Cabinet XII 1. Parading coat worn by a city coach driver. 2. "Atilla" (a tight-fitting, highly decorated, frogged, longish men's coat worn by members of the Hungarian nobility). Cabinet XIII 1. Ball-dress worn by Klára Vojnich. (The Vojnich were a Bunjevci family of nobility. Many members of the family played an important role in the pub­lic life of the county and of Baja.) 2. Díszmagyar, a highly decorated outfit worn by Hungarian women, consist­ing of dolman, aigrette and apron. The 1950s and the Revolution of 1956 Cabinet XIV: World War II. 1. Post card made of birch bark by a prisoner of war in a Soviet prison camp. 2. A coin commemorating the return of Délvidék, the region annexed by Yugoslavia after World War II. (1941) 3. Levente badges. (The levente were the members of a para-military youth movement founded between the two world wars.) 4. A plaque commemorating the inauguration of the flag of the Baja border­­guard battalion (May 05, 1940). 5. Arm-band of the "Party of the Arrow-cross". (The "Party of the Arrow-cross" were an extreme right, fascist organization in Hungary, who followed the spirit and the methods of the German National Socialist Party.) 6. A political leaflet against Ferenc Szálasi. (Ferenc Szálasi was the leader of the fascist "Party of the Arrow-cross". After Hungary's occupation by the German and the déposai of Governor Miklós Horthy, Szálasi was appoint­ed as the Prime Minister of Hungary on October 14, 1944. Later he was executed as a war criminal.) 7. Arm-band with the swastika. "Today at 11:00 a.m. the Germans occupied Baja as well as the entire country. All the people come and go without a word; not a sound is heard in the whole city." (From the chronicles of the School Sisters of Kalocsa, March 19, 1944.) 19

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