Tűzkereszt means “Fire Cross”, a Hungarian military decoration awarded for front-line combat service between 1941 and 1943.

Hungarian Military History Archive

An online archive preserving Hungarian and Austro-Hungarian military history through original photographs, awards, documents, and research material.

ESTABLISHED 2010

2013-07-15


Hungarian stamp, issued to the remembrance of Regent Miklós Horthy's arrival in the town of Komárom the 11th of November 1938. After the annexation of the northern part of Hungary to the newly formed Czechoslovakia in 1920, Hungary was seeking to revise the territorial loss. In 1938 after the First Vienna Award, agreed by Germany and Italy, Hungary retrieved some of the lost areas.



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