"Disaster in Budapest" Topic

"1944. Hitler's once mighty empire crumbles on every front. On the West, Wehrmacht could not stop the Allied while in the East the Red Army moved without stopping to the eastern border of the Reich and plunged into the Balkan. In August, the Soviet offensive forced Romania and then Bulgaria to switch from Germany to supporting the Soviet Union. This event made a third door to the Reich lay open and a new front had to be created in Hungary and Croatia by German divisions. The situation gave the SS an opportunity to grab the last power for them as Hitler's praetorian guards. But in the end, they must pay it with the greatest defeat for the Waffen SS.

Disaster that struck German in Balkan in 1944 made Hungary tottering too. It didn't a surprise: since Stalingrad, the Hungarians had been withdraw theirs troops from the front line and practically become a neutral country in the rear of the German front, a land of night-clubs and white bread, where the privileged could live without rationing or conscription. As a pragmatic people, the Hungarians aware that the Allied will be won. So, in October 1944 the Hungarian government of Admiral Horthy attempted to follow Romania and Bulgaria examples to leave the sinking ships…"
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