Magyarország és a szomszédos államok felfegyverkezésének aránya [The ratio of armaments of Hungary and neighboring states]
- Title:
- Magyarország és a szomszédos államok felfegyverkezésének aránya [The ratio of armaments of Hungary and neighboring states]
- Alternate Title:
- [The ratio of armaments of Hungary and neighboring states]
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Budapesti Hírlap
- Date:
- 1931
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2547.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2547_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Between the Wars
Ethnocentrism
Pictorial
Politics & Government - Measurement:
- 6 maps, each 10 x 12, on sheet 30 x 42 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- Ten years after Hungary was dismembered by the Treaty of Trianon, this series of six maps assert the nation's profound military weakness compared to its neighbor states. Using clear symbols, the maps show Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Serbia with peacetime armies 14 times the size of Hungary's, 24 times as many machine guns, 22 times as much light artillery, more than 11 times as much heavy artillery, more than 18 times as many tanks, and more than 16 times as many war planes. The data behind this analysis is presented in a table at the bottom of the sheet.
Apart from Hungarians, few people today are familiar with the Treaty of Trianon. Not so the Hungarians and their descendants around the world. Signed in June 1920, the treaty was one of the documents formally ending World War I, and it dramatically dismembered the pre-war Kingdom of Hungary. Among Hungarians, it is widely known to this day as a "tragedy," the "Trianon Trauma," an "open wound" in the nation's culture. The great majority of Hungary was forcibly ceded to other states, primarily to Romania, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Yugoslavia. The nation lost two-thirds of its territory, more than half its population, half its largest cities, much of its important raw materials, infrastructure, manufacturing and commercial capability. A significant percentage of ethnic Hungarians remained outside the border of the reduced state, and large numbers of ethnic minorities were within. "Hungarians have bristled with resentment ever since." Traub 2015; Sandford 2020; http://americanhungarianfederation.org/news_trianon.htm, accessed May 11, 2022.
Ten years from the date Trianon was implemented, a leading Hungarian newspaper published a "gift album" summarizing the nation's progress, És mégis élünk! Magyarország 1920–1930. Budapesti Hírlap ajándék-albuma. [And yet we live!... Hungary 1920–1930. Budapesti Hírlap gift album.] Budapest: Budapesti Hirlap Nyomdaja [Press], 1931. This work included a number of photographs, tables, and maps, along with a foreword by Ferenc Herczeg, a conservative nationalist playwright and author who had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times in the 1920s. Apart from this map, most of the other eight maps in the publication highlighted developmental gains in road building, electrification, land reform, construction of housing, schools, and hospitals, etc. Herzog's forward lauds these gains while emphasizing how far the "revisionist movement" still needed to go in the effort to undo the Treaty.
The collection includes other cartographic images protesting the Treaty's impact on Hungarian demographics published by various Hungarian organizations at the time of its signing. (Search > Trianon.) This map, on the other hand, was produced 10 years later and addresses a different issue: the vast military imbalance between the weakened Hungarian state and its neighbors.
A number of Nazi maps from the 1930s similarly purport to show Germany surrounded by neighbors with far greater military personnel and equipment. See, e.g., ID #1243.04, Die wehrgeographische Lage Deutschlands 1933 [Germany's Geo-Military Situation in 1933]; ID #1251.05, Die Fliegergefahr [The Air Raid Threat] (1936). For others, Search > "Between the Wars."
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- És mégis élünk! Magyarország 1920–1930. Budapesti Hírlap ajándék-albuma. [And yet we live!... Hungary 1920–1930. Budapesi Hírlap gift album.] Budapest: Budapesti Hirlap Nyomdaja [Press], 1931.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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