GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 717, sig. 110-5/6

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La 2 and the destroyed Passtrasses in the Carpathians, and the whole Soviet army must be supplied with ZsoimaHungary on its own. Not only the Uagarn, but also the Hungarian Communists are finished, although they were already organized communists before the war. It is enough that they are Hungary. As far as the Soviet army is concerned, it is better equipped and more modern than the German and Hungarian ones, because every second Soviet soldier has a small MG, which is already out of date with the ordinary rifles. After a shooting, about 1 Hungarian tank on 2o Soviet 64998 tanks and 2o Hungarian divisions on 7o Soviet divisions. The Hungarian soldiers are 3o steps away from each other on the front, against which the Soviets act in mass. 7nl The material of the Soviets, however, is already inferior, since 16 to 6o-year-olds are fighting in the Soviet army, because the core of the soviet army is already crushed." Literally, K e m b e r y further explained: When the war will continue as it develops now, Hungary loses about 5 ooo ooo people in this war, which means the destruction of the Hungarian people. But the worst thing is that the Soviets take the children from the age of 8 to 14 years away from Hungary to the Soviet Union; the children march over the Carpathians on foot, with about 5% of the Hungarian children perish on the way. Hungary has no other choice and must bear its fate. All of Hungary and the whole of Slovakia will be occupied by the Soviets in the course of 2 - 3 months: and the war will be transferred to the territory of Bohemia and Moravia. The Czech people should pray so that the fate of Hungary will not happen to them. The Hungarian government also believes that the occupation of Hungary and the other Western countries is not permanent, because the whole of Europe has to pick up 'the last' end. As the Germans are now retreating, the Russians will once heen, "if Germany loses the war, the war would go /