So we didn't become BFF of Germany especially after the rejections Hitler got. That was the job of Romania at that time. It was bigger than Hungary with larger population, stronger economy, larger army and - most importantly - more oil. They also had a beef with the Soviet Union which came in handy as tensions cranked up between the two countries as events went on. The Soviet stepped forward with an idea and declared they were willing to support our territorial claims as they also gave similar demands to Romania. We refused the common action, the anti-communist sentiments were too strong for this.
Nevertheless our military gained enough strength that our diplomats could operate with the threat of an open armed conflict against the Romanians. This was a great big minus in the eye of the Brits and caused much problems in Berlin too. In general the Hungarian-Romanian relations were an aching pimple on Hitler's buttcheek throughout the whole war. Not just that they had to keep some other units between the two nations' troops as they started to shoot at each other if they got near but after the Second Vienna Award which supposed to solve the enmity a constant small scale war had been going on - until the Romanians switched sides - with regular raids, small arms fire, and mortar shelling. As far as I know during the negotiation of the Award it became clear that the Italians have less and less control over the events and whatever will happen in the future the Germans will be the deciding party.


To be continued