Regent Miklós Horthy, István Horthy and the Second World War
In this special volume Rita Péntek writes about the circumstances and consequences of the election of István Horthy as Hungary's Vice-Regent in 1942; Pál Pritz analyses the relationship of Miklós Horthy and Hitler's special representative in Hungary, Edmund Veesenmayer, immediately after the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March of 1944; N. F. Dreisziger provides commentary on Veesenmayer's testimony to American military intelligence officials in 1945; Thomas Sakmyster comments on two letters that the exiled Miklós Horthy had written to Allied leaders after the war; and Mario Fenyő reviews Thomas Sakmyster's recent biography of Miklós Horthy. This section of this special volume is introduced by Dreisziger in a historiographies essay on Miklós and István Horthy.