The overwhelming majority of members of the Hungarian national community welcomed the arrival of the Hungarian army in April 1941 with enthusiasm. However, as time passed and war spread, the fervor subsided. With the arrival of the Red Army and following political changes in the spring of 1945, part of the Hungarians in Prekmurje found themselves under attack by the new authorities. Political leaders and certain heads of Hungarian settlements were imprisoned in Dolnja Lendava, while those who joined the NYKP were transferred to the Filovci camp to be »re-educated«. On the night of July 9, 1945, the Yugoslav authorities interned 558 Hungarians from 19 settlements in the Hrastovec camp and then moved some of the internees to the camp in Šterntal (Strnišče pri Ptuju). The majority of the internees (just over 80%) were elderly, women and children. Internees from Hrastovec or Šterntal were able to return home in September 1945. Of the 558 interned persons, 19 died immediately after returning from the camp, mainly because of typhoid.