The Conscripted Personnel of the Border Guard in 1956–1957
Keywords:
Border Guard, border guard post, patrol service, military service, desertion to a foreign country, Hungarian Armed Forces, National Headquarters, conscripted personell
Abstract
Based on the documents in the National Archives of Hungary, the paper presents the status of the conscripted personnel of the Border Guard having served in the years 1956-1957, and the events related to them. It discusses some of their typical activities at those times, the circumstances of closing the state border and the redeployment of soldiers of the Hungarian Army to guard the state border in 1957. The author also presents the role of the conscripted personnel in the reorganisation of the guarding of the state border in the year 1957.
