Curated playlist
Battles of World War II involving Hungary
- Battle of UmanThe Battle of Uman began on the 15th of July 1941 and lasted just over three weeks, yet in that time the Wehrmacht encircled and destroyed two entire Soviet armies. The 6th and 12th Soviet Armies, caught in a pocket near the Ukrainian city…
- Budapest offensiveThe Budapest offensive began on the 29th of October 1944, as Soviet and Romanian armies launched a sustained assault against Hungary and its Axis partners. By the 13th of February 1945, the Hungarian capital had fallen after four months of…
- Vienna offensiveJoseph Stalin reached an agreement with the Western Allies prior to April 1945 concerning the relative postwar political influence of each party in much of Eastern and Central Europe. These agreements said virtually nothing about the fate…
- Battle of StalingradThe Battle of Stalingrad was a fight that consumed an entire city and changed the course of the Second World War. By the time it ended on the 2nd of February 1943, the German 6th Army had surrendered - the first of Hitler's field armies to…
- Case BlueCase Blue, known in German as Fall Blau, was the Wehrmacht's grand plan for the summer of 1942 on the Eastern Front. It ran from the 28th of June to the 24th of November 1942. At its heart was a single, staggering ambition: seize the…
- Invasion of YugoslaviaThe invasion of Yugoslavia began on the 6th of April 1941. German-led Axis forces attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in what became known as the April War, or Operation 25. Adolf Hitler ordered it after a Yugoslav coup d'état overthrew a…
- Prague offensiveThe Prague offensive was the last major military operation of World War II in Europe, fought between the 6th and the 11th of May 1945. By that point, Berlin had already fallen. Germany's unconditional capitulation was just days away. And…
- Operation Spring AwakeningOn the 12th of January 1945, Adolf Hitler received confirmation that the Soviet Red Army had begun a massive winter offensive through Poland. This event was named the Vistula, Oder offensive and involved over 2 million men. The news placed…
- Operation BagrationOperation Bagration began on the 22nd of June 1944, exactly three years to the day after Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union. That symmetry was no accident. What followed across the forests and marshes of Soviet Byelorussia…
- Dnieper–Carpathian offensiveThe Dnieper-Carpathian offensive, fought from late December 1943 to early May 1944, was one of the largest military operations in the history of the Second World War. It stretched across a front of 1,200 kilometers and drew nearly…
- Second Battle of KharkovThe Second Battle of Kharkov began at 6:30 in the morning on the 12th of May 1942, with a concentrated hour-long artillery bombardment crashing into German positions east of the Ukrainian city. What followed was one of the most…
- Siege of BudapestThe Siege of Budapest lasted exactly fifty days. When it ended on the 13th of February 1945, more than eighty percent of the city's buildings had been destroyed or damaged, all seven bridges spanning the Danube had been blown apart, and…