Hungary and Burgenland

How much did Hungary desire to regain it? Under what circumstances might it have done so, or at least tried, with a PoD after 1920?
 
But, had they not been "axied" in WW2, but valiantly got blitzed somewhen in 1940/41, they might rather have gotten it just like Poland got Silesia or Czechs and Yugoslavs got the Germans out.
 
But, had they not been "axied" in WW2, but valiantly got blitzed somewhen in 1940/41, they might rather have gotten it just like Poland got Silesia or Czechs and Yugoslavs got the Germans out.

Dont think so, considering two factors: Austria treated as a victim OTl (Anschluss) and i do not think, why it should change and... well, Hungary did not really wanted those territories back. More or less the question compared to any territorial demands pretty much irrevelenat - neglible numbers of hungarians living there, small patch of land, etc.
 
How much did Hungary desire to regain it? Under what circumstances might it have done so, or at least tried, with a PoD after 1920?

Back to the original question: Not that very much. Hungarian minority was a real minority there, the new borders were mostly followed the ethnic borders. Yes, i know about the Sopron voting (rigged like hell) but that was something like a desperate movement thirsty for some succes somewhere, if the real problematic issues could not have been adressed.
I think, that was the max.
 
But, had they not been "axied" in WW2, but valiantly got blitzed somewhen in 1940/41, they might rather have gotten it just like Poland got Silesia or Czechs and Yugoslavs got the Germans out.

Isn't it more likely they would get the south of Slovakia, which was technically also an axis power (and which spoke Hungarian)?
 
Isn't it more likely they would get the south of Slovakia, which was technically also an axis power (and which spoke Hungarian)?

Not necessearly. The question is, who is in power (the US? the UK? the USSR? Tito-like hungarian partisans?) and who they like to punish, who they like to revard. Want to punish the slovaks - Ruthenia goes to the USSR. Want to reward the hungarians at the same time: first vienna. Want to punish the romanians and reward the hungarians: second vienna. Want to punish the romanians real hard: whole transylvania.
 
Not necessearly. The question is, who is in power (the US? the UK? the USSR? Tito-like hungarian partisans?) and who they like to punish, who they like to revard. Want to punish the slovaks - Ruthenia goes to the USSR. Want to reward the hungarians at the same time: first vienna. Want to punish the romanians and reward the hungarians: second vienna. Want to punish the romanians real hard: whole transylvania.
Well, Ruthenia had really small Slovak minority. Much much smaller then let say territories awarded to Hungary after 1st Vienna. I believe it was around 5000 Slovaks so there was not real interest in Slovakia for Ruthenia.
 
Dont think so, considering two factors: Austria treated as a victim OTl (Anschluss) and i do not think, why it should change and... well, Hungary did not really wanted those territories back. More or less the question compared to any territorial demands pretty much irrevelenat - neglible numbers of hungarians living there, small patch of land, etc.

Not purely a victim, but certainly closer to a victim than an aggressor. Austria was, after all, divided into formal occupation zones, just as Germany was. But perceptions of it as the first of Hitler's conquests did color that. That would have remained true even if Hungary had not joined the Axis.

But there are other reasons why Burgenland would not be on the table in the latter case. Burgenland was given to Austria after WWI precisely because it was mostly German - it was one more manifestation of Wilson's demand for ethnic self-determination. It wasn't an acquisition by Hitler, like the Sudetenland. In short, it was part of the pre-Hitlerian status quo.

And, as others have pointed out, there was little interest in the territory in Hungary anyway. Nothing like, say, Transylvania.
 
Burgenland was a majority German territory that happened to be Hungary. There would be little reason for the Hungarians to want Burgenland back.
 
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