NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 717, sig. 110-5/6 Page 41 · 41 of 79
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 717, sig. 110-5/6
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- 4 - 31, it further turned out that Horthy has no ally commitments and broke the feeling that Hungary is running counter to chaos, seems to have lost the situation for Horthi during these first crucial hours.The Honved attitude was decisive. In Budapest there was a rumor that the 6th Army was moving towards the capital and that larger troops had defected to the Russians.In fact, it has been shown that Szálasi had enough personal attachment at the Honved to deal with the situation as far as possible with immediate changes in the decisive command posts. This influence of Szálasi on the Honved and its attitude was decisive for the overall process. Even well-informed circles have assumed in this situation that Horthy's influence on the stirring of the Honved on the one hand and the so-called oppositions in the army on the other would lead to the army stopping the fight.The chief of the General Staff Vöresz then became the first in the The new Chief of the General Staff and Honved Minister Beregffy, a party-goer Szálasi, then immediately changed the leadership of some military groups and others. The commander of the l.Armee, Colonel-General Miklos, passed with his adjutant to the Russians.The following day the swearing of the Honved to Szálasi without incident took place and Horthy had until then lost considerable prestige. The question as to what motivated Horthy to issue the proclamation at this unprepared stage is raised by the fact that Horthie succumbed to his Jewish,ligberal and Masonic environment and that before the fact of his last son Niki's appointment by the Germans, he