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I always sympathized with Hungarians, my society consisted of Hungarians, and I support Hungarians even today, in all matters. Jews had many good deeds for Hungary. Because they [Hungarians]didn’t have any industry, anything. In Pest there were German newspapers, German theatre, not to talk about Jews only.
Because Swabians came in, and a part of Buda, and a part of Pest was definitely Swabian. That’s why there are so many Hungarians with German names. And Kolozsvar was more Hungarian, much more Hungarian [than Budapest].
There was the [Hungarian] theatre, there were [Hungarian]newspapers, and later Budapest had two. And during the Hungarian era many people turned back suddenly [into Germans], from 1940.
They didn’t speak German anymore, because they were second or third degree descendants, but because Germany was so triumphal, that it crushed countries within days time, many among Swabians, mainly young people, ‘Heil Hitler’, they learnt that at once.
Because Swabians came in, and a part of Buda, and a part of Pest was definitely Swabian. That’s why there are so many Hungarians with German names. And Kolozsvar was more Hungarian, much more Hungarian [than Budapest].
There was the [Hungarian] theatre, there were [Hungarian]newspapers, and later Budapest had two. And during the Hungarian era many people turned back suddenly [into Germans], from 1940.
They didn’t speak German anymore, because they were second or third degree descendants, but because Germany was so triumphal, that it crushed countries within days time, many among Swabians, mainly young people, ‘Heil Hitler’, they learnt that at once.
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Romania
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Alice Kosa