Slovak-Hungarian relations in the mirror of the Soviet-German conflictive alliance (1939–1941)

This article focuses on Slovak-Hungarian relations in the context of the Soviet-German cooperating antagonism in the early stage of the Second World War (1939-1941). It tends to show how Slovakia and Hungary tried to rely on those two powers in order to achieve their aims to revise the Slovak-Hungarian border established in 1938-39. Reversely, they were exploited by Berlin or Moscow in their diplomatic chessboards until the Soviet-German war, which was underway by June 1941. Between September 1939 and June 1941, Bratislava raised a few times territorial demands to Hungary. Those revisionist attempts were sometimes backed by Berlin, especially when, willing to recover Transylvania, Budapest tried to benefit from Soviet territorial ambitions in Romania. However, after the Second Vienna Award (30 August 1940), Germany exerted pressure on Slovakia so that she would abandon her revisionist ideas. ; QC 20230615