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Mihaly Karolyi by Cecile Tormay
Mihaly Karolyi (1875-1955) son of wealthy Hungarian aristocrats who became a left-wing politician and leader of the Party of Independence and 1848. He was the last Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, which came to an end in November 1918, and subsequently was the Provisional President of the short-lived Hungarian Democrat Republic until March, 1919. He went into exile from Hungary in 1919, and did not return until 1946. He served as Ambassador to France from 1947-1949.
Istvan Tisza by Gyula Benczúr
Istvan Tisza (1861-1918) was a conservative politician, a member of the Liberal Party, who served two terms as Prime Minister of Hungary (1903-1905, and 1913-1917) under Emperors Franz Joseph and Charles. He opposed Austria-Hungary’s entry to the war in 1914, but thereafter supported the war to the end. He was shot to death in his home by political opponents in 1918.
Adolf Hitler as a young man - University of North Carolina
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a native of Austria who served in the German Army in the First World War. He was a twice-decorated war hero, winning the Iron Cross First and Second Class. He began his political career when, after the war he was employed by the Army to infiltrate the German Workers Party (later renamed National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party), of which he later became the leader. Hitler gave himself the nickname “Wolf”, and it was subsequently incorporated in the names of several of his military headquarters, the most famous being Wolf’s Lair (“Wolfsshannze”) in East Prussia, the scene of a famous assassination attempt in 1944.
Admiral Horthy - Wikipedia.
Mikilos Horthy (1868-1957) rose to the rank of Admiral and command of the Austro-Hungarian Navy by 1918, after starting the war as a Captain. He gained control of the National Army after briefly serving as Minister of War under the counter-revolutionary government of Gyula Károlyi in 1919. In 1920 the National Assembly replaced the Democratic Republic of Hungary with a renewed Kingdom of Hungary, but it was made clear by the Entente Powers that Hungary would not be permitted to restore Charles IV to the throne. The Assembly, surrounded by units of the National Army under Horthy’s command therefore offered the former Admiral the title of Regent, with vast, almost dictatorial powers. He led Hungary into an alliance with Germany in World War II, and was deposed and arrested after the war.
Édouard Herriot 01 - the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs
Edouard Herriot (1872-1957) a member of the Radical Party, he served three times as Prime Minister of the Third Republic between the World Wars. He also held many other ministerial posts and was the President of the National assembly after the Second World War from 1947 to 1954.
Wilhelm Groener by Pahl, Georg –
the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939) became the de facto commander of the German Army in 1918 after the overthrow of the war dictatorship of Eric Ludendorff, and before the Armistice. He used the Army to crush a Communist revolution in Germany in 1918-1919, then later, as Minister of War under the Social Democrat Ebert, attempted without success to subordinate the Army to the civil government of the Weimar Republic. He served as Transportation Minister, Defense Minister and Interior Minister with various governments between 1919 and 1939.
Kaiser Wilhelm II: see High Tide
Raymond Gram Swing: see High Tide
Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Bavaria: see High Tide
Winston Churchill: see High Tide
Frank Lowden: see High Tide
Joseph McCormick: see High Tide
Leonard Wood: see High Tide
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Heller is a retired trial attorney, is married and is the father of two children and a chinchilla. He has a Master's Degree in European History (Purdue University, 1982), and has been studying the World Wars and the inter-war period for a half-century.