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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 .
Production the Panzerfaust 150 started in February 1945 and continued until May of that year when the facility in Döbeln, Saxony producing the Panzerfaust 150 was captured by the Soviets. Although 100,000 were produced, none were issued to field units beyond limited troop trials. No known examples of the Panzerfaust 150 survived the end of the ...
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 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.
Taken on 15 October 1944, Operation Panzerfaust, after surrender and disarmament of the royal guards of the Hungarian Army MPB mine showing a cylindrical, concave Misnay–Schardin warhead. The Misnay–Schardin effect, or platter effect, is a characteristic of the detonation of a broad sheet of explosive.
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.
"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. Knowledge of the ...
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