✦ History

Part of World War II, Budapest offensive

Siege of Budapest

December 26, 1944 – February 13, 1945 · Budapest

Result Soviet victory

The fifty-day siege of the Hungarian capital: Pest fell in January and Buda in February, after German relief attacks failed.

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Axis

Allies

Other

Germany
Hungary
Soviet Union
Kingdom of Romania
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch military commander Gerhard Schmidhuber military commander Dezső László military commander
Rodion Malinovsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander

Strength and losses

Civilian deaths
76,000

Units

Army Group South 6th Army (Wehrmacht) Third Army (Hungary) 13th Panzer Division 1st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Panzer-Grenadier-Division Feldherrnhalle Volunteer Regiment of Buda
2nd Ukrainian Front 104th Rifle Division 108th Guards Rifle Division 109th Guards Rifle Division 110th Guards Rifle Division 113th Rifle Division 122nd Rifle Division 141st Rifle Division 151st Rifle Division 155th Rifle Division 180th Rifle Division 203rd Rifle Division 223rd Rifle Division 227th Rifle Division 228th Rifle Division 243rd Rifle Division 252nd Rifle Division 303rd Rifle Division 317th Rifle Division 320th Rifle Division 34th Guards Rifle Division 375th Rifle Division 49th Guards Rifle Division 4th Guards Rifle Division 62nd Guards Rifle Division 68th Guards Rifle Division 69th Guards Rifle Division 81st Guards Rifle Division 86th Guards Rifle Division 93rd Rifle Division (1942–1946)

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