The Student Resistance Movement, 1943–1945
The Student Resistance Movement, 1943–1945

Summary/Abstract: Back in February of 1939 Hungary’s Regent, Miklós Horthy, had forced the resignation of the pro-German Prime Minister Béla Imrédy and named Count Pál Teleki, an anglophile, to lead the government. Both Regent Horthy and Prime Minister Teleki despised Hitler and believed that the Allies would eventually win the war. Regent Horthy, a retired admiral who had commanded the Austro-Hungarian fleet during the First World War, believed Great Britain would win because of its superior naval power. Prime Minister Teleki believed that Great Britain would win because the United States would eventually join the war rather than permit Great Britain to lose – as had happened in the First World War. Horthy and Teleki were very aware that Hungary’s fate after the war was dependent upon its remaining neutral in the war effort. The British government often reminded them of that fact.

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