✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Battle of Romania

1944 · Romania

Result Allied victory

Soviet armies defeated German and Romanian forces in Romania in 1944. A royal coup then took Romania out of the Axis alliance, and Romanian troops joined the Soviets against Germany.

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Allies

Axis

Soviet Union
Kingdom of Romania
Germany
Hungary
Joseph Stalin military commander Rodion Malinovsky military commander Michael I of Romania military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander
Ion Antonescu military commander Johannes Frießner military commander Maximilian Fretter-Pico military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
1,000,000
Strength
1,000,000
Killed
500,000

Units

2nd Ukrainian Front Third Army (Romania)
6th Army (Wehrmacht) Fourth Army (Romania) 17th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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