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Next to the Danube-facing longitudinal wall of the Citadella, there is an open-air display of a small collection of Red Army weaponry, most of them from the Second World War. The pieces are the following (going left to right on the picture): a 76 mm M1942 divisional gun (ZiS-3), a design from 1942; a 57 mm M1943 anti-tank gun (ZiS-2), a design ...
Gellért Hill (Hungarian: Gellért-hegy; German: Kelenberg, Osterberg or Blocksberg; Latin: Mons Sancti Gerhardi Turkish: Gürz İlyas Bayırı) is a 235 m (771 ft) high hill overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. It is located in the 1st and the 11th districts. The hill was named after Saint Gerard who was thrown to death from the hill.
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 ...
The complex was closed off during the siege of Budapest. [1] After the war, the Rock Center was chosen as the host facility for the National Counter-Air Center (Országos Légvédelmi Központ; OLK, ORLÉKÖZ), which was established on October 1, 1948. [2] Technical installation in the complex was finished in September 1949. [2]
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It was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary during World War II, which ended the occupation by Nazi Germany. Its location upon Gellért Hill makes it a prominent feature of Budapest's cityscape. [1] The 14 m tall bronze statue stands atop a 26 m pedestal and holds a palm leaf.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank (Hungarian: Cipők a Duna-parton) is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary.Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [] to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War.
Jewish councils in Hungary (1 C, 11 P) W. ... Pages in category "Budapest in World War II" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.