[The history of the so called "Shortened University Courses". The medical faculty of the Royal Hungarian University of Sciences in Breslau and Halle 1944-45].

On the autumn of 1944, when the Soviet troops entered Hungary and quickly pushed toward Budapest, the government was taken over by Hungarian Nazis - backed by the SS and the Wehrmacht. The new government attempted to evacuate all public administration including ministries, various offices, institutions of higher education, the gold reserve, the Crown etc. and equipment to Germany. A governmental decree located as a centre of Hungarian medical education Halle an der Saale. The students of the recently organized "shortened courses" were forced to leave their homeland and finish their studies in the Reich. Author - being a witness and victim of these events - gives a detailed and vivid report of the troubles, circumstances and losses of the Hungarian community in Germany. Later on he discusses also the offences, and unfounded accusations students had to suffer, when retiring home. The article has been the first one describing these events from viewpoint of the medical students, for almost sixty years.