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

2016-03-01

To visit the History.
A few times in in my historical research and interest, I have had the great privilege to actually visit a few of the places from the photographs in my collection. in the fall of 2012, a friend of mine who had helped me a lot in some research took me to this small train station just across the border from Hungary into Serbia. 

The photograph above, is taken from the 1941 photo-album of a Hungarian army sergeant from the town of Kecskemét. Hungarian troops crossed into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the campaign to reclaim the Hungarian parts in early April 1941 and this photo is taken just a few hours into the campaign on the 11th of April. 

 The same place today. 
Compared to the old photograph, the small building next to the rails didn't changed much during the 70 years.

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