A possible war for the possession of the large, maily mountaneous  province of Erdely (Transylvania) was avoided when Germany and Italy decided to divide the region with a demarcation line running from NW to SE. Here a Hungarian town celebrates the reannexation of NE Erdely.

Return of  Hungarian Town in Transylvania, 1940

In this original color photo, the almost exclusively Hungarian Szekely population of Kezdivasarhely, located in SE Erdely, celebrates the entry of a motorized Magyar Honved column, 1940.

Celebrating NE Transylvania's Recovery, 1940 

After the First World War, the vicotrious Entente decided to reward expanding Romania for her wartime military alliance by awarding her Transylvania (Erdely), a long-standing  province of neighboring Hungary. Resurgent Germany, joined with Italy, decided to avert a clash by dividing the region, but also planning to use the volatile issue for baiting both sides into fighting on the Axis side. Here an old Szekely town, Csikszerda, celebrates the Hungarian return in 1940. 