Open AccessHungarian Troops in World War II: The Bitter Truth of Archival Documents and an Attempt at Revision
Author(s) -
Tamás Krausz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
quaestio rossica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.233
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2313-6871
pISSN - 2311-911X
DOI - 10.15826/qr.2020.2.483
Subject(s) - ideology , politics , state (computer science) , political science , world war ii , foreign policy , isolation (microbiology) , territorial integrity , power (physics) , european union , law , political economy , economic history , history , sociology , sovereignty , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , biology , business , economic policy
This article is not primarily focused on presenting arguments and views held by Polish political groups with reference to the territorial shape of the Polish state after the First World War. Instead, its aim is to draw attention to actions taken by these groups towards the defence of Polish western lands. One of the key problems of Poland’s foreign policy after 1918 was the question of relations with its neighbours, chiefly Germany and Russia (and the Soviet Union). For many years, the most serious problem faced by post-Versailles Europe was that of the Germans striving to revise the legal order, to break their political isolation, and return to the prestigious circle of world powers. Those endeavours threatened the security of Poland in a direct way. Defence of the Polish state and its territories on the western outskirts of the Second Republic lay at the heart of establishing socalled “Western thought” in the country. Related to Western Europe, this ideology played a significant role in shaping society’s views on, and attitudes towards, the most vital problems of the Polish nation and state.