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The siege of Budapest or battle of Budapest was the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and Romanian forces of the Hungarian capital of Budapest, near the end of World War II. Part of the broader Budapest Offensive, the siege began when Budapest, defended by Hungarian and German troops, was encircled on 26 December 1944 by the Red Army and the ...
Historically, Hungary was home to a significant Jewish community, with a pre-World War II population of more than 800,000; however, it is estimated that just over 564,000 Hungarian Jews were killed between 1941 and 1945 during the Holocaust in Hungary. [205] Between 15 May and 9 July 1944 alone, over 434,000 Jews were deported. [206]
The Budapest offensive was the general attack by Soviet and Romanian armies against Hungary and their Axis allies from Nazi Germany. The offensive lasted from 29 October 1944 until the fall of Budapest on 13 February 1945.
The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan: A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II (1967) Eby, Cecil D. Hungary at war: civilians and soldiers in World War II (Penn State Press, 1998). Don, Yehuda. "The Economic Effect of Antisemitic Discrimination: Hungarian Anti-Jewish Legislation, 1938-1944."
Budapest [a] is the capital and ... destroyed during World War II and then rebuilt in 1949); ... The food of Hungary can be considered a melting pot of the continent, ...
Pages in category "Budapest in World War II" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Budapest ...
Pages in category "Battles of World War II involving Hungary" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... Siege of Budapest; C. Case Blue; D.
Operation Konrad III was a German military offensive on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.It was the third and most ambitious of the three Konrad Operations and had the objective of relieving the siege of Budapest and recapturing the entire Transdanubia region.