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Ofc for the equipment and "technology" transfers and such weren't the officers in charge. It all depended on diplomacy and the people who led the countries.
On the German side Hitler seemed to be neutral he didn't spend much time of his thinking about the Hungarians. I read that Alfred Rosenberg and Goebbels hated us but I haven't read their own words so I'm not entirely sure especially in case of Goebbels as the propaganda of the Reich wasn't anti-Hungarian (for practical reasons for sure but who knows). I don't know about any leading politicians who was particularly fond of Hungarians. Once I read Veesenmayer's report about Hungary but I don't really remember, I know it wasn't too warm in it's tone.
From Hungarian side, while they were friendly toward Germany herself, the national socialist leadership was barely acceptable. Our government and foreign ministry were full of aristocrats and the whole natsoc movement smelled like revolutionaries. The person of Hitler was parvenu to them, the beggar nobody or the "little corporal" at best. Horthy himself wasn't enthusiastic about him at all. I think there was some hidden revulsion by the fact that Horthy was a fucking admiral of the K.u.K. and Hitler ditched his duty and left for Germany instead of joining Franz Josef's Armee as a good Austrian patriot should have. I really should read his memoirs sometime.
There were more and less pro-German prime ministers and as the war went on the Germans expressed their opinion who should it be more and more. Ironically the Hungarian national socialists were even less pro-German than the whole bunch before them and the Germans only helped them to power by the end of the war because they were the only ones willing to continue leading the fight.