>>43405
So here's two passage from this chapter just to sample Szálasi's characteristic and ideologically filled ways of expression and formulation of his thoughts. Gonna put the quotes in Italic as we usually do.

An army set to total war have to get the moral strength and heroic world view from the family set to total war, the war material produced by the works with total labor and total force, and from the settlement the total stability of the inner theater; from the army, which they supplied with total moral, spiritual, and material tools, these in return demand the total victory and the prosperity and security it brings. This is the unbreakable unity, fellowship, and share of fate that should be forged between the army and the nation in a total war.

I think he imagined a total war as something that the whole nation, the whole state, country, society participates in, every function is militarized. It's like creating a boxer whose fist is the army, the brain is the leadership which uses the hinterland, the whole body, from the energy reserves through the muscles to the bones, to guide the fist - behind it the force of the whole body - where it needs to strike.
Tooze says that there wasn't much capacity to mobilize, so the German declaration of total war in early 1943 (Szálasi similarly dates that event) was more of a propaganda mumbo jumbo. However the importance of preparing psychologically those who has to provide the tools (as Szálasi put it) when not much material resource (as raw material, energy source, production capacity...) left outside of what was already used, also can't be underestimated. The next quote will be about something like this.

Picrel, the man himself.