"The "Bombing of Kassa" became the center of interest when contradictory reports of well-trained eyewitnesses identified the attacking aircraft as German-made with Russian insignia. Opinions about the incident, lacking documentation, are based on speculation and on convictions of the authors. For example: Dalnoki, Army of Hungary, 1, p. 135; Adonyi, Hungarian Soldier, p. 27; Gyorgy Nagyrevi-Neppel, "The Bombing of Kassa" in Danubian Reporter, XXI, 1-2, March, 1980, pp. 708, agree that the attacking planes were Soviet; Horthy, Memoires, p. 191; Macartney, October Fifteenth, 1I, pp. 31-32, published another version of the story according to which the bombing was done by German planes with Soviet insignia to provoke Hungary and help the war party to declare war. Peter Gosztonyi Hitler's Fremde Heere (Dusseldorf-Wien: Econ Verlag, 1976), p. 116, mentions one more version: the attacking airplanes were piloted by embittered Slovak officers. A book devoted entirely to the Kassa bombardment is: Julian Borsanyi, Das Raetsel des Bomben angriffs auf Kaschau, 26, Juni 1941. See, also: Dreisziger, Hungary's Way to World War 11, pp. 167-175. After this ms. went in the press, a Hungarian historian, Ignac Olvedi published new information in the Magyar Hirlap "Hungarian News", Budapest, June 28, 1981 issue. He stated that according to Soviet sources tha airplanes which bombed Kassa belonged to the Romanian air force."
aus "CHAPTER XIII, HUNGARIAN TROOPS ON THE SOVIET FRONT, l94l"
"(*** There is another - plausible - explanation of the bombing of Kassa (Kaschau, Kosice). The late Jozsef Ormay (of Toronto, Canada) conducted a very exhaustive research in the archives of the European War Ministries, bomb-rack and airplane manufacturers.
Since there is no doubt concerning the origin of the bombs (standard Soviet make), Ormay wanted to know, which bombers of the other belligerents were also capable of accommodating these bombs in their bomb-racks.
After personally visiting and researching the possible sources, came to the conclusion, that only Soviet bombers were capable of loading and releasing these bombs. No one else!
Ormay's well documented report appeared in installments in the periodical "Magyar Szarnyak" (Hungarian Wings. Published by the Hungarian Aero Museum, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, now defunct), sometime between 1983-85.
This undeniable proof points to to the Soviet Air Force. Weather the Soviet flyers simply attacked clearly defined targets or got lost and mistakenly bombed Kassa, is another question.)"
von Webeditor der Internetseite
Corvinus Library - Hungarian History
Hier wird die Frage nicht geklärt sondern auch auf alle möglichen Hinweise eingegangen:
Deutsche Flugzeuge mit sowjetischen Kennzeichen,
sowjetische Flugzeuge,
verbitterte slowakische Offiziere in Flugzeugen mit sowjetischem Kennzeichen,
rumänische Flugzeuge mit sowjetischen Kennzeichen.
Der Webmaster der Seite holt dann einen Hungaro-Kanadier heran, der die Bomben untersuchte und fragte, welche Flugzeuge diese sowjetischen Bomben hätten aufnehmen können. Sein Fazit keine anderen Flugzeuge als sowjetische. Letztendlich spekuliert dann der Webmaster nur noch, ob die Bombardierung durch die sowjetische Luftwaffe gezielt, Bomben verloren oder irrtümlich Kosice bombardierten.
Es gibt Spekulationen, dass PZL.37 (polnische Herstellung) der rumänischen Luftwaffe für die Bombardierung verantwortlich waren. Schliesslich wollte Rumänien nicht nur mit den Deutschen die Sowjetunion überfallen.
