WW2 · BATTLE SITE · 1944–45

Siege of Budapest (1944–45)

Dec 1944–Feb 1945 — A 50-day urban siege as the Red Army fights toward Vienna.

When

Dec 1944–Feb 1945

Type

Battle site

Chapter

End of WW2 in Europe (chapter 13 of WW2)

Atlas

The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945

Also in

Cold War · Refugee crises · Stalin’s Soviet Union

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