Challenge: The Polish-Hungarian border

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make Poland and Hungary neighbors up to the present day with a POD no earlier than 1925.

In OTL the 2 countries enjoyed good relations in the interwar period and bringing back the old Polish-Hungarian border was a common objective. (You can guess who it was directed at.) It was briefly achieved in 1938-1939, between the Hungarian annexation of Transcarpathia and the dismemberment of Poland.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make Poland and Hungary neighbors up to the present day with a POD no earlier than 1925.

In OTL the 2 countries enjoyed good relations in the interwar period and bringing back the old Polish-Hungarian border was a common objective. (You can guess who it was directed at.) It was briefly achieved in 1938-1939, between the Hungarian annexation of Transcarpathia and the dismemberment of Poland.

Hitler dies in a car accident beetween the annexation of Chezhia and the invasion of Poland, and the infighting afterward bring a military Junta to power.
 

Susano

Banned
No it wouldn't, because the Generalgovernment was a special area within Nazi Germany created after the dismemberment of Poland in 1939.

Actually, its very purpose was to be out of Germany.

Well, the obvious solution would be Slovakia becoming reintegrated into Hungary. Which is difficult... maybe in a Nazi Wins scenario where Slovakia wbackstabs Germany, but why would Tisos regime do so? It was one of the most loyal ones.
 
Or... if the Soviet collapse is more bloody, and Poland takes the opportunity to seize some "traditionally Polish" Galician lands from Ukraine. Should this include Transcarpathia, which I find likely, then Poland will border Hungary.
 

Thande

Donor
Or... if the Soviet collapse is more bloody, and Poland takes the opportunity to seize some "traditionally Polish" Galician lands from Ukraine. Should this include Transcarpathia, which I find likely, then Poland will border Hungary.

Perhaps tie that in with Ukraine disintegrating as a prior step? I don't think Poland would unnecessarily antagonise the Soviets unless Ukraine was already falling to bits.

Mind you, it seems a bit farfetched - Crimea did try to declare independence from Ukraine OTL, but I don't think the northwest/southeast split everyone now yaps on about was considered then.
 
Perhaps tie that in with Ukraine disintegrating as a prior step? I don't think Poland would unnecessarily antagonise the Soviets unless Ukraine was already falling to bits.

Mind you, it seems a bit farfetched - Crimea did try to declare independence from Ukraine OTL, but I don't think the northwest/southeast split everyone now yaps on about was considered then.

Oh, I didn't think it was plausible, I was just sticking up for the Slovaks.
 
Wow, you people make things complicated. Why not just let Hungary keep it's 1939 border and have Poland eastern border enter unchanged from the 1939 or at "Curzon 2" line? Could have easliy happened with only limited divergences from OTL WW2.
 
Actually, its very purpose was to be out of Germany.

Well, the obvious solution would be Slovakia becoming reintegrated into Hungary. Which is difficult... maybe in a Nazi Wins scenario where Slovakia wbackstabs Germany, but why would Tisos regime do so? It was one of the most loyal ones.
Most sources I have read, and maps that I have seen, clearly has shown the Generalgovernment being within the German Reich, but not administered directly from Berlin. As for Slovakia, Hitler wouldn't allow Hungary to reclaim it, because he wanted it as a puppet state, and as a valueable strategic springboard for invading Poland from the south at the same time also invading from Pomerania, and East Prussia, to put the drop on Warsaw in a giant pincers movement.
 
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