Somogy megye múltjából - Levéltári évkönyv 26. (Kaposvár, 1995)

Bősze Sándor: Adatok az angolszász szövetségesek Somogy megyét ért bombázásairól (1942. szeptember -1944. október)

Szili Ferenc; The Wordl War I diary of a foot-soldier from Somogy 1914-1918. The voluminous World War I diary of the one-time soldier, Kovács György, is kept in the Somogy County Archives. Its author, who belonged to the lower layer of the peasant society, wandered between 1914 and 1918 all over the Italian, Serb, Romanian and Russian battle fields, and he put down in words his experiences there and the terrors of the war. According to the diary, he grew up as an orphan, he could not attend school and he learned to write and read as an adult from an old shepherd. His diary reveals his talent, probably he was a typical specimen of the farm-hands at the puszta who, in more favorable circumstances, could have become a famous peasant poet. Reading the atrocities of the war still gives us shudders. His diary is also an important message to the generation of tuday, it warns us of the meaningless nature of the war. Its illustrations and drawings render the state of mind of a soldier in pain. Szita IAszló; The immigration of German families in Somogy county in the period between the two Wordl Wars. (1930-1940) On the prepositions of Prime Minister Count Teleki Pál, Széchényi Endre, the Lord Lieutenant of Somogy comitat, entitled Dr. Páti Ferenc, teacher ot the secondary grammar school of Kaposvár, to carry out a scientific survey in 1940. The purpose of the investigation was to size up the number of the German ethnicity immigrating and settling down in Somogy county, and their land purchase, sociological conditions, concrete family circumstances and economic mobilization. The government was also inspired by the fact that the leaders of the German ethnic movements getting stronger and more agressive attacked the government in petitions and their home German press stating that besides infringing upon the ethnic rights, it hinders the economic activities of the German peasantry in the country and in Somogy county too. On the other hand, the Hungarian writers exploring the villages, Illyés, Kodolányi and the scholar Fülep Lajos, who furnished them with local data, and the numerous journalists and publicists joining them pointed out the deterioration of the Hungarians emphasizing that the regional expansion of the Germans contributes to the deterioration of the Hungarians. The land passes into the hands of the German peasantry and not the Hungarian. The Germans take over the land from the Hungarians. Széchényi entitled dr. Páti Ferenc, the learned teacher of History and Latin, to examine these conrete problems. Páti Ferenc's papers are still to be seen in the archives of the Prime Minister's office. In this present study, besides drawing up the problems, we also put out the excellent teacher's writing called "A detailed report on the German-speaking settlements in Somogy county since 1930", which is the short family history of the German families moving in Somogy during the period and which is hard evidence of the fact that migration is part of the social mobility. No political but economic factors were there behind the migration. Szakály Sándor; Letters and cards from camps about the war. What the Hungarian soldiers wrote about in 1942^43- What the Hungarian soldiers wrote about in Ï942-A3. During the Second Wordl War the cards and letters mailed through the army post rendered, in most of the cases, authentically the events of the week-days of the war, the feelings of the ones on the battle-fields and those at home. With the help of these sources we can take a glance into the everyday life, the worries