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

The proximity of the German Reich and its influence regarding anti-Semitic laws may explain an awakened interest in the nature and origin of the Hungarians. (Gyula Szekfű's "What is Hungarian?" (Mi a magyar?), László Németh's "In a Minority" (Kisebbségben), Dezső Szabó's "Toward the Mine's Deeps" (A bánya mélye felé), Gyula lllyés's "Who is Hungarian?" (Ki a magyar?). Later, on August 23, 1943, at Balatonszárszó, at the academic conference "Where do we go from here?" ("Hogyan tovább?") organised by the Soli Deo Gloria Society of Hungarian Calvinist Students and Sándor Püski, publisher of works by populist authors, László Németh proposed a third way as opposed to Western capitalism and the German-Soviet systems. The intelligentsia assembled there demonstrated a demand for the intellectual and moral preservation of Hungarianness. The spheres of interest of Germany and the Soviet Union, the two expansionist totalitarian great powers of the region, spread from the Baltic to the Balkans. Germany placed under its yoke one by one the small states along the Danube that previously had been unable to agree either economically or, later on, politically or militarily. Revision of the Hungarian borders after 1938 could occur in the wake of this expansion, as a result of which 40% of the annexed Hungarian territory together with its population of five million was returned to the motherland. The Viennese Resolutions for the reannexation of Upper Hungary, Ruthenia and Northern Transylvania with the signatures of Regent Miklós Horthy and prime ministers Pál Teleki and László Bárdossy: 1938, 1939, 1940 (document details)