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Thursday, March 9, 1944
Miklós Horthy, the Governor of Hungary, other leaders of Hungarian public life and the Party of Hungarian Life – the governing party – greeted Prime Minister Miklós Kállay, who had taken over command of the government two years earlier.
The message of Miklós Horthy to Miklós Kállay which was published in the newspapers:
“Dear Dr. Kállay,
It has been two years now since you have been accepting the office of Prime Minister of the country, which is especially tough today, with your ancestral family’s traditional sense of duty to public service. During these crucial times nowadays, you dedicated your excellent talents to the self-abnegating duty of the eternal Hungarian purposes and kept doing your work with tireless steadiness in order to secure the future fate of the nation. As I look with confidence forward to your further work, in recognition of your outstanding merits gained by your work in the interests of our country I bestow the Hungarian Order of Merit – Cross with the Holy Crown upon you.
Budapest, March 9th, 1944.”
March 10-12, 1944
SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, the leader of the subdivision IV.B.4. of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt – RSHA) and his main subordinates conferred about the tasks after the occupation of Hungary in Mauthausen. The meeting was attended by Hermann Alois Krumey, Otto Hunsche, Dieter von Wisliceny, Theodor Dannecker, Franz Novak, Franz Abromeit and Siegfried Seidl.
Sunday, March 12, 1944
Adolf Hitler ordered the occupation of Hungary. The original plan, Margarethe I., had been ready on September 30, 1943. It was planned to involve Romanian and Slovak troops, but finally this idea was disapproved. According to the order regular forces under the command of Field-Marshal Maximilian von Weichs, which forces had to be rallied along Hungarian borders by March 15, and special SS units under the command of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Otto Winkelmann participated in the operations. These special units consisted of 5-600 Gestapo men and SD members, under the command of SS-Standartenführer Hans Geschke, and a special troop of 2-300 men under the command of Adolf Eichmann. There was a contingency plan, under the code name Margarethe II., just in case if Governor Miklós Horthy hadn’t cooperated and the full occupation would have become necessary.
From the order (OKW/Wehrmacht Ops. Staff Op. No. 77683/44.):
„For some time past it has become known to me and the imperial government that the Hungarian Kállay government has prepared the betrayal the united European nations. The Hungarian people, which showed goodwill toward us, was landed into this situation by the Jews, who controlled everything in Hungary, and by certain reactionist or partly Jewish and corrupt elements of the Hungarian aristocracy.”
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