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Battles of World War II involving Hungary

  • Battle of UmanIn just over three weeks in 1941, German forces destroyed two entire Soviet armies near Uman.
  • Budapest offensiveSoviet armies closed a ring around Budapest in late December 1944. Roughly 79,000 troops were trapped.
  • Vienna offensiveThe Vienna offensive of 1945 reached a city that had already endured continuous bombardment for a full year. Many of its buildings and facilities were damaged or destroyed before a single Soviet soldier arrived. The assault was carried out…
  • Battle of StalingradHitler promoted Paulus to field marshal at Stalingrad, since no German field marshal had ever surrendered.
  • Case BlueSoviet forces had Germany's 1942 summer plans in hand, but Stalin thought they were a trick.
  • Invasion of YugoslaviaHitler attacked Yugoslavia in April 1941 after a coup toppled a government that had just allied with him.
  • Prague offensiveSoviet tanks drove some 80 kilometers overnight and entered Prague at daybreak on May 9, 1945.
  • Operation Spring AwakeningSepp Dietrich joked about the fate of his army after Operation Spring Awakening collapsed. "6th Panzer Army is well named - we have just six tanks left." The Germans called the operation Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen, and they also knew it…
  • Operation BagrationOperation Bagration began exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
  • Dnieper–Carpathian offensiveSpring mud helped the Red Army win a huge battle in Ukraine. Most German tanks could not move in it, but the T-34 could.
  • Second Battle of KharkovA Soviet offensive at Kharkov in May 1942 ended with more than 250,000 troops trapped.
  • Siege of BudapestSome 28,000 troops tried to break out of besieged Budapest on the night of the 11th of February 1945.

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