Somogy megye múltjából - Levéltári évkönyv 31. (Kaposvár, 2000)

Rezümé

living abroad, they presented a vivid account of their trips, during which in 124 villages altogether they made an attempt to assess how well the German inhabitants had preserved their mother tongue, consciousness, customs and where and to what extent they had assimilated and what were the reasons thereof. They were searching for where and how their consciousness could be aroused and their identity strengthened. Authorities would keep an eye on their activities and they were also hindered by harrassment from the gendarmerie. Szabó Attila: School celebrations and commemorations in the Horthy-era (Days of celebration in the Hungarian Royal State „Rezső" Civil Boys' School) The Peace Treaty of Trianon, which put an end to World War I, came as a shock to the whole of Hungarian society. There was no social stratum, group, or political force but demanded the revision of the peace treaty. That is what the governments of the Horthy-era took advantage of when they put down all the troubles of Hungary and the Hungarian nation to Trianon. The subsequent governments used even the various school celebration as a means of this politics of revision. Through the students, even the commemorations served the aim of making everybody understand the necessity of altering the Trianon borders. They endevoured to get the growing generation ready both physically and mentally to be able to and want to take an active part in the sound restoration of the historical Hungary. Lagzi István: The evacuation of the Polish soldiers interned in Hungary from the "eastern and western regions" of Hungary 1939-1941 In the wake of the German and Russian agression on Poland in September 1939, 45,000 soldiers and 15,000 civilians took shelter in Hungary. The soldiers were accommodated in different towns and villages where, in the context of the Protocol of Geneva, they were interned. Of the refugees, the forces of the emigrant Polish government evacuated, up to the autumn of 1940, 32,000 soldiers and civil volunteers to French and English territories with the approval and help of the Hungarian authorities and inhabitants. The Polish Evacuation Bureau, operating in Budapest in secret, launched several times from various parts of the country, mainly across the territory of Somogy and Zala Counties, the groups of soldiers to Yugoslavia, from where they arrived in France and the Near-East by train and ship. Among others, the following facts made possible the organization of the evacuation. - During the war despite the alliance with Germany, the Hungarian governments wanted to foster their - more and more tapering - relationships with the western powers. - It was important as well that the Embassy of the Polish Republic was in operation in Budapest till the end of January 1941. - The Polish soldiers and civilians were determined to fight against the invaders. This was the decisive factor in their undertaking the evacuation. Bősze Sándor: The erection of the Soviet monument in Kaposvár (1945) The study conjures up the history of the birth of the Soviet monument in Kaposvár in 1945. The author goes through the events leading up to this, the political