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  2. Operation Panzerfaust - Wikipedia

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    Operation Panzerfaust (German: Unternehmen Panzerfaust, lit. 'Operation Armored Fist') was a military operation undertaken in October 1944 by the German Wehrmacht to ensure the Kingdom of Hungary would remain a German ally in World War II .

  3. German invasion of Hungary (1944) - Wikipedia

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    The Germans were ready, however. Horthy was overthrown in Operation Panzerfaust, a coup that placed the National Socialist-friendly Arrow Cross Party (NyKP) in power. Following the Siege of Budapest the capital fell to the Soviets on 13 February 1945 and the government fled.

  4. Occupation of Hungary by Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Operation Margarethe, the occupation of Hungary by German forces on 19 March 1944 Operation Panzerfaust , military operation to occupy Hungary in October 1944 Government of National Unity (Hungary) , puppet government formed by the Arrow Cross Party on 16 October 1944

  5. Hungary in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Hungarian army ignored Horthy's orders, fighting desperately to keep the Soviets out. The Germans launched Operation Panzerfaust and, by kidnapping his son Miklós Horthy Jr., forced Horthy to abrogate the armistice, depose the Lakatos government, and name the leader of the Arrow Cross Party, Ferenc Szálasi, as prime minister

  6. Second Army (Hungary) - Wikipedia

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    The Germans launched Operation Wintergewitter (12 December) to relieve the Sixth Army. In the first stage of Operation Little Saturn (16 December), the Soviets attacked between the Italian Eighth Army and the Hungarian Second Army, threatening the flank of the Wintergewitter forces. On 13 January 1943, the Soviets began the Voronezh–Kharkov ...

  7. 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division - Wikipedia

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    Skorzeny commandeered all available elements of the Maria Theresia to take part in Operation Panzerfaust, which began at 0600 on 15 October. In little over half an hour, a German column led by four Tiger IIs, including a number of Maria Theresia men, stormed Buda Castle and forced Horthy to abdicate.

  8. Jewish councils in Hungary - Wikipedia

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    Immediately after the Operation Panzerfaust, Eichmann's team agreed with Szálasi to deport 50,000 Jews for forced labor in Germany. This started on 20 October in collection camps all over Budapest (e.g. the KISOK sports field in Zugló , Tattersalls , the Dózsa György Street Synagogue , a brick factory in Óbuda , and the Józsefváros ...

  9. October 1944 - Wikipedia

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    The film noir Laura directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews was released. The Howard Hawks -directed wartime romance/adventure film To Have and Have Not starring Humphrey Bogart , Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall (in her film debut) premiered in New York City.