Tóth Ágnes: Telepítések Magyarországon 1945–1948 között. A németek kitelepítése, a belső népmozgások és a szlovák-magyar lakosságcsere összefüggései (Kecskemét, 1993 [!1994])

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In the centre of the study besides the resettlements in Hungary after the second world war, revelation of the background of the migrations, there are those actual arrangements, chronological executions, and relations. The author aimed at the detailed introduction of the circumstances of foregein and home politics in the background of the individual migration actions as well as identifying the real promoters of the events. During the research she examined the archival sources, the materials of the period press dealing with this subject, as per the following thematic classification: 1. The preparation of the resettlement of the German ethnic minority in Hungary on legislative, governmental level. 2. The influences of the power aims of coalition-parties and the government as well as the international situation on the policy towards the nationalities. 3- The sphere of duties and authority of the executive branches - central and local and their pracitical activity. 4. Interaction among relocations of different directions and motivations - resettlement of the Germans, domestic relocations in connection with the agrarian reform, Slovak-Hungarian population exhange, settlement of the Székelys of Bucovina, as well as the reception of the refugees from the neighbouring countries. 5. The attitudes of the refugees from the neighbouring countries. 5. The attitudes of the individual groups of the society to the relocations. The economic and social influences and significances of different relocations, migrations in view of the national and local statistical data. The migrations in Hungary between 1945 and 1948 after the second world war - resettlement of the Hungarians from Slovakia, resettlement of the home Slovaks, domestic migrations, receiving the Hungarian refugees from the neighbouring countries, settlement of the Székelys of Bucovina - show big differences regarding their directions and influences, however, they connected as links in a united process. Trie number of the involved population can be put at half a million. Because of the influences of the war and the changing frontiers, the number of people moved from the neighbouring countries to Hungary, according to humble estimations, can be put at 60-80 thousand. With the Germans' resettlement, which started at the beginning of 1946, in the first year 120 000 while in 1947-1948 further 50 thousand people removed. Taking the advantage of the agrarian reform and the settlement opportunities provided by the Germans' homes, which got free, the resettlement of some 136 000 people, 34 000 families were executed within the