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Lot #5301 HUNGARY 1938-44 "Justice for Hungary - Liberation Period", a 10-frames exhibit of 300+ covers or cards presented chronologically in pages, organized into four separate chapters covering the distinct events that resulted in territory being "restored" to Hungary just prior to and during World War II. This involved Upper Hungary (Felvidek), Ruthenia (Karpatalja), Transylvania (Erdely) and Bacska (Delivdek). The material shown includes Commemoratives on cover or FDC, Liberation postmarks, Military markings, numbered postmarks, provisional and standard cancels, Official and Postage Due mail, with a number of unusual and scarce items included (after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the end of World War One, historic Hungary was forced to cede what is now Slovakia, Vojvodina, Croatia, part of Slovenia, Ruthenia, the Burgenland and Transylvania to the new states of Yugoslavia, to a much-enlarged Romania, and even to Austria, a fellow loser in the war. During the inter-war period, Hungarian foreign policy was devoted to Attempts to recover "lost territory, with the primary theme being "Justice for Hungary", mainly for being wronged by the Trianon Treaty) ![]() | $2,300.00 Bidding Closed |