A new temporary exhibition opens on the centenary of the occupation of Belgrade at the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism on December 2. The exhibition has special theme: interpretation of the Austro-Hungarian army and the population in Hungarian hinterland during the first world war.

Overshadowed by the Arc de Triomphe, wicker, barbed wire fence advertising posters, text placards, original photos, advertising and promotional postcards, cartoons and mock photos, rulers, pictures of generals and front fighters decorated porcelain tableware, soldiers simple tin pots and canteen vividly recall the Great War.

Small interiors revive life in the hinterland and the front: the triumphant march to war, war economy, price increases, charity, the front, canteen, etc. camp bakery. On the officers' dining table a cannon ammunition sheath consisting of rifle cartridges used as an adorned Christmas. These are to give an idea of the distance between the two locations, home and the battlefield.

Camp postcards finding their place in showcases, wartime mortars of women who heroically held on both in markets and at home, Food Stamps illustrate the daily struggle for daily.

Left on the ledge of he canteen window, empty beer glasses symbolize the hope of the return of men...

The organizers entrust visitors to answer the question the newspaper 'Érdekes Újság' asked a hundred years ago: "Who deserves a medal better? The person who builds a bridge in a couple of hours over a river, or the person who crosses the bridge, defeats the enemy, who beats the Russians over sixty kilometres a day in , or the person who supplies the troop with food?"

The exhibits were borrowed from the private collection of the engineer József Spekál.

Anikó S. Nagy