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Túl A Kárpátokon 1939-1944

Sixteen supplied titles invoke loyalty, departure, popular song and military life beneath a Hungarian collection label. Their historical setting includes territorial revisionism, war and antisemitic persecution; the date range remains collection wording rather than authenticated recording dates.

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Horthy Miklós Induló

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  1. Horthy Miklós Induló2:59

    Historical Context

    Horthy’s name evokes an authoritarian government whose antisemitic policies preceded German occupation. From 1938, exclusion intensified through laws restricting Jewish livelihoods, civil rights and family life. A loyalty march bearing his name belongs within that political history as well as the history of military ceremony.

    Recording details

    The supplied title does not authenticate the composer, performers, lyrics, original issue or date. No personal conduct is inferred for unidentified musicians.

    Sources & Resources

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Holocaust in Hungary

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  2. Horthy Miklós Katonája Vagyok2:49
  3. A Rózsám De Csinos2:47
  4. A Zászlaja Piros-Fehér-Zöld0:42
  5. Túl A Kárpátokon1:53

    Historical Context

    Songs of movement beyond the Carpathians sit beside the human costs of Hungary’s Eastern Front campaign. The National Archives describes the 9th Light Division’s 1942 fighting and its retreat from the Don in January 1943, after which only a fraction of its personnel returned home.

    Recording details

    The archival history is context for the collection’s wartime setting. It does not identify this song with that division or establish its composer, performers or date.

    Sources & Resources

    Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár: Zalai honvédek a Donnál

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  6. Búcsút Intünk2:41
  7. Győzni, Győzni, Győzni Kell Nekünk2:57
  8. Valahol Oroszországban3:27

    Historical Context

    In the 1942 film Valahol Oroszországban, a song connects soldiers at the front with home. MaNDA’s synopsis describes a requested radio performance and a later hospital scene with Katalin Karády. The song’s cinematic setting brings together morale, longing and the disruption of war.

    Recording details

    The source is a film-censorship-text catalogue. Its music and verse credits, cast and year do not authenticate the supplied recording as a soundtrack performance.

    Sources & Resources

    Public metadata inspected; the underlying five-page document is marked paid access and its rights holder unknown. No soundtrack, performer or precise premiere date is inferred for this file.

    MaNDA / Nemzeti Filmintézet–Filmarchívum: Valahol Oroszországban

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  9. Majd, Ha Visszajöttök Megint2:24
  10. Kis Kató2:39
  11. Ne Bántsd A Magyart!2:58
  12. Bajtárs Ma Még Tán2:53
  13. Én Édes Angyalom (Lili Marleen)3:17

    Historical Context

    The parenthetical Lili Marleen label points toward a work with a documented German printed history. The Morgan Library catalogues it among five songs with music by Norbert Schultze and poems by Hans Leip, in a voice-and-piano publication catalogued with a 1940 copyright date. A Hungarian version requires its own textual and recording research.

    Recording details

    No Hungarian translator, adapter, singer, ensemble or date is established for Én Édes Angyalom. The German publication is a work-level comparison, not this recording’s source.

    Sources & Resources

    German printed work comparison only; no Hungarian adapter or supplied performance identified.

    The Morgan Library & Museum: Lili Marleen, record 159220

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  14. Rózsika (Erika)2:28

    Historical Context

    The name Erika can be checked against a published musical work: Schott and Louis Oertel credit Herms Niel in their voice-and-piano edition. That provides a composer-and-title reference for investigating the parenthetical label, while the Hungarian Rózsika version remains a separate question.

    Recording details

    The publisher’s edition does not establish a Hungarian adaptation, its words, arrangement, performers or recording date. The supplied title is not silently normalized into a verified identity.

    Sources & Resources

    Printed work comparison only; the Hungarian adapter, lyrics and supplied take remain unverified.

    Schott Music / Louis Oertel: Erika, OERT 7331

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  15. Csak Egy Nap A Világ3:09
  16. A _Hunyadi_ Hadosztály Indulója2:36

    Historical Context

    A wartime diary gives the Hunyadi name a concrete late-war setting. In an entry covering 16–18 January 1945, the writer describes recruitment and his decision not to volunteer. The modern editor identifies the formation as the 25th (1st Hungarian) Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS.

    Recording details

    This institutional comparison does not authenticate the supplied march’s unit, composer, performers or date. The diary’s terminology is distinguished from the editor’s corrected designation.

    Sources & Resources

    The diarist’s wording and the modern editor’s identification are distinct; neither identifies a march recording.

    ArchívNet / Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár: Egy honvédtiszt a világháborúban, 3. rész

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Behind the sound

Revisionism, wartime song and persecution

Horthy’s authoritarian government pursued territorial expansion in 1938–1941 with German support. Hungary’s National Archives also documents revisionism’s use of songs and ceremonies. This political setting helps frame titles invoking Horthy and national symbols, without establishing their audible words or the purposes of particular performances.

The Film Archive describes Valahol Oroszországban as a 1942 film in which a song reaches soldiers through radio and a hospital performance. That is a work-level comparison for the supplied title. National Archives histories of public troop send-offs and severe Eastern Front losses place departure and return songs within the pressures and human costs of war.

Anti-Jewish laws and forced labour preceded the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. German and Hungarian authorities then organized mass deportations, mainly to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This persecution must accompany discussion of military and sentimental repertory, without claiming that an unidentified track directly describes those events.

Presented for critical historical study of propaganda, war and persecution. Nazi and fascist ideology, racial exclusion and violence are not endorsed.