✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Budapest offensive

October 29, 1944 – February 13, 1945 · Budapest

Result Allied victory

Soviet and Romanian forces advanced into Hungary and surrounded Budapest. The city fell after a long and costly siege.

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Soviet Union

Nazi Germany

Other

Soviet Union
Kingdom of Romania
Hungary
Germany
Rodion Malinovsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander
Johannes Frießner military commander Otto Wöhler military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
719,000
Civilian deaths
76,000

Units

2nd Ukrainian Front 1st Guards Army (Soviet Union) 26th Army (Soviet Union) 27th Army (Soviet Union) 40th Army (Soviet Union) 46th Army 4th Guards Army 53rd Army (Soviet Union) 57th Army (Soviet Union) 6th Guards Army 7th Guards Army First Army (Romania) Fourth Army (Romania) Second Army (Hungary) Third Army (Hungary) 7th Mechanized Corps 108th Guards Rifle Division 109th Guards Rifle Division 110th Guards Rifle Division 141st Rifle Division 151st Rifle Division 163rd Rifle Division 206th Rifle Division 21st Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 223rd Rifle Division 227th Rifle Division 228th Rifle Division 232nd Rifle Division 236th Rifle Division 240th Rifle Division 243rd Rifle Division 409th Rifle Division 40th Guards Rifle Division 41st Guards Rifle Division 4th Guards Rifle Division 53rd Rifle Division 61st Guards Rifle Division 62nd Guards Rifle Division 68th Guards Rifle Division 69th Guards Rifle Division 6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 73rd Guards Rifle Division 86th Guards Rifle Division 8th Guards Airborne Division 93rd Rifle Division (1942–1946) 98th Guards Airborne Division 99th Guards Rifle Division Volunteer Regiment of Buda
Army Group South 8th Army (Wehrmacht) 1st Panzer Army 6th Army (Wehrmacht) Panzer Group 2 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf Panzer Division Tatra

Battles 2