Based on sources and information below follow the questions. Make conclusions and present it to your class. Pay special attention to the similarities and differences in the history of Poland and Hungary.
- Read the fragment of The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939). What agreements did the document below include regarding Poland?
Secret Additional Protocol. (Moscow, August 23, 1939)
„Article II. In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement of the areas belonging to the Polish state, the spheres of influence of Germany and the U.S.S.R. shall be bounded approximately by the line of the rivers Narev, Vistula and San.
The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish States and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments.
In any event both Governments will resolve this question by means of a friendly agreement.”
2. Read the article. Describe what attitude the Hungarian state had toward the German and Soviet occupations in Poland.
3. Were Poland and Hungary on the same side of the conflict?
4. Who were Henryk Sławik and József Antall? What did they do together? What are the monuments below a symbol of?
