Századok – 1998

Tanulmányok - Korom Mihály: Az Atlanti Chartától a potsdami kollektív büntetésig.(A magyarországi német kitelepítés történetéhez) III/553

AZ ATLANTI CHARTÁTÓL A POTSDAMI KOLLEKTÍV BÜNTETÉSIG 583 the Soviet army. In Czechoslovakia Bene(managed to pursuade the Allies to let him remove several millions of Sudenten Germans from the country, to be followed by nearly one million Hungarians. In part two the author discusses the plans of Stalin and Bene (to drive the Hungarian and Saxon inhabitants of Slovakia out of the country during the campaigns heading north, south, and southwest, as well as to annex Sub-Carpathia to the Soviet Union. Part three discusses the military and diplomatic maneouvres aiming to deceive the western Allies through which Bene, supported by the Soviets, managed to include the plan for expelling half million Germans from Hungary into the decisions of the Potsdam Conference in order to make room for the forceful relocation of Hungarians from Slovakia. Part four deals with the forced removal of nearly one third of the German population of Hungary and the efforts of significant Hungarian political circles to prevent the total removal of half million Germans from the country. Finally a summary is given of the causes of the decrease of the German population in Hungary during and following the war, through which their number of 477,000 in 1941 decreased by 254,000, i.e., by more than fifty percent.