Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 19. From the Successes of Revision to German and Russian Occupation (1938-1945). István Ihász

In the summer and autumn of 1944 the widow of the Vice-Regent and Miklós Horthy Jnr. had participated in the operation of the office created to take Hungary out of the war - in literal translation, the "baling-out office". Fear of Bolshevism, a military leadership fanaticized by earlier German successes, the frittering away of civilian strength and the geographical position of this twice-occupied country all made the building-up of any considerable military opposition impossible. At the release of the bourgeois radical thinker and Smallholder opposition politician Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky, who had been imprisoned between March 19 and October 15, 1944, and citing the removal of Regent Horthy through the Arrow-Cross putsch, illegal organisation of the Hungarian National Uprising Liberation Council began. Sentenced by the Arrow-Cross Court of Investigation, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky was executed on Christmas Eve, 1944, following his companions, the generals Tartsay, Nagy and Kiss. Together with this a not inconsiderable resistance emerged among the churches, civilians and the military, to which the manufacture and use of forged official stamps and documents in the name of and in the course of the activities of the various surviving state bureaus, military units and supply organs bear testimony. The most significant power within the Arrow Cross Chief Command was the Görgey battalion set up by Captain Zoltán Mikó of the Supreme Command. Later Mikó together with the Swede WallenThe Red Army run of pengős with which they paid for requisitions, and which, due to the dearth of supply of goods, resulted in the formation of an internationally unprecedented inflation that could only be brought to a halt after the introduction of the forint on August 1st, 1946