The Plan of the White Internationale : Secret Hungarian-Bavarian-Austrian-Russian Military Negotiations and Attempts of Forming a Military League to Revise the Peace Treaties of Paris, 1919-1923

Kántás, Balázs (2022) The Plan of the White Internationale : Secret Hungarian-Bavarian-Austrian-Russian Military Negotiations and Attempts of Forming a Military League to Revise the Peace Treaties of Paris, 1919-1923. ANGLISTICUM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL, 11 (9). pp. 52-75. ISSN 1857-8179

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Abstract

After the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles, some politicians of the defeated states, mainly those in Germany and the successor states of the disintegrated Austro–Hungarian monarchy were very unsatisfied with the defeat and the considerable territorial losses, and sought the possibility of revision, including the help of possible allies. From 1919 onwards, Hungary’s new right-wing political leadership continued to actively seek contacts with German-speaking, mainly Bavarian and Austrian radical right-wing political forces and their associated paramilitary formations. On the Bavarian side, General Erich Ludendorff, Colonel Max Bauer and the then young and emerging far-right politician Adolf Hitler attempted to set up an international revisionist organisation at the end of 1919. The German radical right-wing politicians would have seen the possibility of changing the political situation mainly in the coalition of the Free Corpses, which were very numerous in both Germany and Austria and mainly consisted of First World War veterans. The plan envisaged by General Erich Ludendorff would have consisted of an agreement between the Bavarian-German Free Corpses, the Austrian radical right-wing militias, the leaders of the right-wing counter-revolutionary Government, and the tsarist, so-called ’white’ Russian troops. The paper makes an attempt to explore the history of the Bavarian–Austrian–Hungarian–Russian secret negotiations the aim of which would have been a Central European military association against the Entente powers called the White Internationale, which, of course, was never realised due to the international political situations.

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