Udet:
'As someone told me before, the most loyal ally the Germans had were the Hungarias who for some reason did not switch sides as the war progressed, but it is understandable when one knows of the position other Axis nations found themselves at a certain point of the war.'
i have to correct this,whoever told it to you.
Hungary,since centuries,suffered just like Romania,every nation tried to crush it or integrate it. the invasion of tatars,turks, and then the Habsburg regime, the k.u.k. monarchy days where it reached a kind of independence.
History weren't generous to my folk, and after ww1 the versailles treaty, did the most cruel amputation ,taking 2/3 of territory and half of the occupants, tossing millions of hungarians in minority. you can read it on news nowadays,the slovak's with their Benes-decrete law..i don't want to turn offtopic,i just hoped more from the European Union,defending the rights to anyone equally.
some facts you might not know: as i said,i disagree completely if i hear 'hungary was the most loyal ally'. my reasons:
Hungary was against the war. similar to Romania,there was no other choice left as trying to avoid hitler's anger and the faith of finland,or the baltic states,agressed by stalin.Romania had Antonescu,who was like a lil clone of hitler. a war criminal indeed. Hungary's leader,Horthy,was a ww1 hero, a great naval captain,respected by the allies and the axis in ww1.he never did,nor supported any war crimes, i know many historians,mostly soviet,or exiled wannabe-hungarians who hate their country somehow use every occasion to make the 44yrs of terrible communism after 45 look better.i dont care.fact is, hungary refused to attack poland, and hungary didn't even let the germans through hungary to marsh up-slovakia did instead- . Hungary stood neutral, but hitler put great pressure on Horthy. he wanted hungary to take part on the attack on yugoslavia.the prime minister,Teleki, commited even suicide to demonstrate .they all knew we have to choose between the complete destruction of hungary , or allie with hitler and try to keep out. hungary finally joined the attack with 1 army,but didnt took part in the fightings, they occupied former territories where almost 100% of the people been native hungarians to defend them from eventual atrocities from the yugoslavs.they did it later,tito's partisans killed 30000 women and children with sadistic brutality in 44-45,just like the soviets did in hungary itself.
hitler pressed hungary to take part in barbarossa aswell, the 2.hungarian army been completely destroyed at the Don in 42, as the nearby battalions of romanians and italian immadiately surrounded without fighting,letting the red juggernaut unleash its power concentrated. with german units they made a 'dead marsh' back ,for 200km's in minus 40degrees.200000 died or been captured,only a few returned from siberia.
hitler never trusted horthy,hungary attempted many times to contact the allies for a seperate peace, one of the sources been the Pope,but the Abwehr cracked the vatikan's encryption. an ignorant answer of the western allies been 'they might ask the soviets'. hungary couldnt quit the war or turn the sides like finland ,bulgaria,italy or romania did,for a simple reason.hitler occupied hungary,kidnapped horthy's son (the famous Skorzeny was the leader of Operation Eisenfaust) so he was blackmailed to retreat, and the crazy Szálasi came to might,leader of the nazi party in hungary. these murders were just like the insatzgruppen.the deportation of the jews,who found shelter in hungary until 44,started. hungary didnt took part in the holocaust until its occupation,whoever said it. as a proove of all i said, Horthy been obviously arrested from u.s soldiers after the war,but he been released in 45, 'not guilty',and spent his last years in potrugal in exile.there been numerous anti-jewish laws,but deportation and killing happened only during the puppet-regime of Szójay and later szálasi. as long horthy posessed his might,he stopped the starting deportation(from may15.44-9.july44) but after he been removed,the killings started. thats all,thanks for reading. you must not agree, but since im hungarian,i can seperate the brainwashed communist propaganda and facts. every country had its trash,i admit. but hungary's extreme negative reputation in his role in ww2 is nothin more as a balloon