2 and 9 November 1938 The border stops one village awayHranica sa zastaví o dedinu ďalej

The First Vienna Award of 2 November 1938 handed southern Slovakia to Hungary, and the new line was drawn just south of Dudince. Šahy went to Hungary, and so did Hokovce, the next village down the road, occupied on 9 November 1938 by part of the 15th infantry regiment of the Hungarian royal army. Dudince stayed on the Slovak side, so an ordinary country road became an international frontier overnight and the village found itself in a border zone. The old order returned only in 1945.Prvá viedenská arbitráž z 2. novembra 1938 odovzdala južné Slovensko Maďarsku a nová čiara bola vedená tesne južne od Dudiniec. Šahy pripadli Maďarsku a s nimi aj Hokovce, susedná dedina po ceste, ktorú 9. novembra 1938 obsadila časť 15. pešieho pluku maďarskej kráľovskej armády. Dudince zostali na slovenskej strane, takže z obyčajnej vidieckej cesty sa cez noc stala medzištátna hranica a dedina sa ocitla v pohraničnom pásme. Pôvodný stav sa vrátil až v roku 1945.