A székelyföldi hadműveletek 1944-ben
Military Operations in Szeklerland in 1944

Summary/Abstract: The author meticulously tracks the series of military historical events that occurred in Szeklerland from the last decade of August 1944 to the first decade of September 1944 with almost neopositivist objectivity. The study presents the Hungarian troops stationed in the region at that time, including the Szekler Border Defense Forces and the Szekler Border Guard, the battlefields in the Eastern Carpathians, and the remnants of German troops retreating to the Hungarian border. Given the length constraints of an article in a journal, which do not allow for an expansion of the topic to all of Transylvania, readers can refer to the author’s book, Erdély ismét hadszíntér – 1944 (Budapest, 2002), published by Petit Real Könyvkiadó as part of their Militaria series, for detailed information on the rapidly evolving political events and decision-making processes following the Romanian switch of allegiance, the reorganization of the Hungarian 2nd Army, its southern Transylvanian offensive, subsequent withdrawal, the one-month-long Battle of Torda/Turda, and the battles in the Marosvásárhely/Târgu Mureş-Szászrégen/Reghin region, as well as the causative connections leading to the forced evacuation of Szeklerland and, eventually, all of Transylvania.

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