Két tábornok a magyar királyi 2. honvéd hadseregből. Vitéz Jány Gusztáv vezérezredes – Stomm Marcel gróf, altábornagy
Two Generals from the 2nd Royal Hungarian Honvéd Army: Vitéz Gusztáv Jány, Colonel General – Count Marcel Stomm, Lieutenant General

Summary/Abstract: During the fights of the 2nd Royal Hungarian Honvéd Army in the Soviet Union in 1942-1943, about 250-260,000 soldiers and forced labor servicemen of served in the army. The bloody losses (killed, missing, wounded, prisoners of war) suffered during the fighting – in practically a year – are estimated at 120-150,000. The performance of the army was judged at the time (and even subsequently) by the character of its military leaders. But who led this army? Generals and staff officers, of whom two generals are generals are especially worthy of mention. One of them, the commander of the army, was General Vitéz Gusztáv Jány, and the other, Count Marcel Stomm, the commander of III Corps, from 1 February 1943 Lieutenant General. Two military leaders, with almost identical starts in their military careers, war experience between 1914 and 1918, then the Royal Hungarian Honvéds. Both of them are mostly rated on the basis of some individual orders they have issued. Is this fair? How did their fate unfold and how did their lives end almost identically, with a death sentence? (Implemented in the case of Jány, pardon in the case of Stomm.) 20th century Hungarian soldiers’ fates.

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