✦ History

Budapest offensive

October 29, 1944 – February 13, 1945

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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Battles 2

December 26, 1944 – February 13, 1945
Siege of Budapest Soviet victory Budapest Rodion Malinovsky, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Gerhard Schmidhuber
January 18–27, 1945
Operation Konrad III Inconclusive Lake Balaton Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin

Key commanders

Allies 2

Rodion Malinovsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander

Axis 3

Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch military commander Gerhard Schmidhuber military commander Dezső László military commander

Soviet Union 2

Rodion Malinovsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander

Nazi Germany 2

Johannes Frießner military commander Otto Wöhler military commander