Társadalomtörténeti múdszerek és forrástípusok. Salgótarján, 1986. szeptember 28-30. - Rendi társadalom, polgári társadalom 1. - Adatok, források és tanulmányok a Nógrád Megyei Levéltárból 15. (Salgótarján, 1987)
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569 the social structure. One of the reliable sources for the analysis of the microstructure of the society is the registers of the secondary schools in which the constituting elements of the social status were recorded. The author gives the tabular account of the results of his research and points out the internal relationships of these sets of the sources. SÁNDOR SZAKÁLY ; The Hungarian Military Elite during the Period of the Second World War The commissioned officers at the higher level, say, the military elite does make the decisive influence on the role and function of the armed forces. There are two criteria of ranging the commissioned officers as the members of the military elite, to wit, rank and position. The author clearly defines which officers can be regarded as the members of the military elite. On the basis of the author's classification, his list which is the starting point of the investigation includes the names of four hundred and fourteen commissioned officers. Mr. Szakály analyzes their origins, namely, the place and time of birth, religion, the occupations of parents, the size of family and its wealth, and nationality by use of the archival sources and records. The members of the military elite were mainly recruited from the petite bourgeoisie, intellectual, civil servant, and, of course, military families. Only insignificant part of the commissioned officers came from the peasant and working class families. As far as the economic situation of the commissioned officers is concerned, the vast majority of them was born in a family without property, or at least, considerable property (78 percent). The parents with many children took advantage of the free education of the cadet scool and military college. According to the author's investigation, 53,5 percent of the military elite sprang from the detached territories of the historical Hungary. This circumstrance partly explains why the commissioned officers became one of the most faithful advocates of the revisionist policy against the Trianon Treaty during the interwar period. The author disagrees with the well-established opinion of the Hungarian historiography which has regarded the German origin of the military elite as the key issue in the strong support of the political goals of the Nazi Germany. In the view of Mr. Szakály, the reason of the strong political support of the Nazi Germany in Hungary can not be explained by the Germanophily of the Hungarian military elite but by the German support of the Hungarian revisionist policy and the tradition of the political and military alliance between the two countries in the world War I. JÁNOS MAJDAN : The Hungarian Railway Workers between 1846 and 1918 The Hungarian historiography has exhaustively discussed the history of the construction of the railway system and the debates about the steam traction. Few studies, however, deal with the railway workers who kept the steam engine in motion, who organized and run the whole network of the railway transportation. The author investigates the origins, the educations, the ranks and all important
