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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 .
A Luftwaffe soldier aims the Panzerfaust ' s predecessor, the Faustpatrone, using the integrated leaf sight. Panzerfaust-armed Finnish soldiers (soldier in foreground is also armed with a Suomi KP/-31) passing the wreckage of a Soviet T-34 tank, destroyed by detonation, in the Battle of Tali-Ihantala Panzerfaust 30 klein ("small") or Faustpatrone
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.
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
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
"Operation Long Jump" was the alleged code name given to a plot to assassinate the "Big Three" (Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt) at the 1943 Tehran Conference. [19] Hitler supposedly gave the command of the operation to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, chief of the RSHA , who, in turn, ceded the mission to Skorzeny.
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.
Operation Faust may refer to: a humanitarian mission, along with Operations Manna and Chowhound , to get food to starving Dutch civilians at the end of World War II an early name of Operation Ranger , an American nuclear bomb test series