From 1920, Hungary was ruled far from being democratic by Miklos Horthy, whose political views can be described as right-wing and conservative. He also clearly aimed at undermining the peace treaty in Trianon (1920) and restoring the so-called Great Hungary. From the turn of 1938/1939, he was clearly oriented towards Germany and Italy in his foreign policy. Hungary also entered the war with the Soviet Union. Already in March 1940, they formed 3 general armies (1, 2 and 3), each consisting of three corps (Hungarian Hadtest). In total, there were 27 infantry brigades (Hungarian dandar) in the Hungarian army (when Hungary joined the war with the USSR). Each of them consisted of about 9,500 people. It consisted of a command company, one 7-battery field artillery regiment and 2 infantry regiments. Each such regiment (Hungarian Ezred) had a command platoon, a machine gun company and 3 battalions (Hungarian: szloalj) of infantry. The basic shooting armament of the line units were relatively modern rifles, but in the second-throw units you could meet the old 8mm Mannlicher rifles. The anti-tank defense was mainly provided by Belgian 47 mm guns and German 37 mm PaK36 guns. The field artillery, on the other hand, consisted of the production department of such companies as Skoda, Bofors and Rheinmetall.
The decisive influence on the shaping of the organization and tactics of the German infantry before the outbreak of World War II was, on the one hand, the experience of the previous World War, but also theoretical works created in the 1920s and 1930s, which often emphasized the need to perceive the German infantry as a tool waging an offensive war. This affected both the equipment and the organization of the German infantry division, which during the September campaign of 1939 consisted of 3 infantry regiments, each of which was divided into 3 infantry battalions, an artillery company and an anti-tank company. In addition, there were numerous support units, including: an artillery regiment with 4 artillery squadrons (including one heavy), an anti-tank battalion, a sapper battalion and a communications battalion. In total, the so-called infantry division In the first mobilization wave, there were approximately 17,700 people and had a significant artillery component, but also was abundantly equipped with machine guns. It also had modern and efficient - for those times - means of communication and command. In the course of the war, infantry divisions underwent transformation - in 1943 some of them were transformed into armored grenadier divisions. However, from 1943, the standard division of the "traditional" infantry consisted of approx. 12,500 men (and not approx. 17,700 as in 1939), and its artillery component - especially heavy artillery - was also reduced in it, while its anti-tank defense was significantly improved. It is assumed that during the entire Second World War, about 350 infantry divisions served in the Wehrmacht.