Author: s.walker

Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and took part in the invasion of the USSR.
After defeat in battle in 1944 Hungary tried to negotiate independent peace terms with the Allies.
Nazi Germany then invaded Hungary to prevent this and installed a “puppet” government made up from the Fascist Arrow Party.
The Arrow Party’s: Government of National Unity ruled an ever shrinking Hungary for 6 months. In that time it managed to deport over 600 000 Jews to Auschwitz for extermination.

The Soviet Red Army conquered all of Hungary by April 1945, after destroying the capital city Budapest in a 2 month siege.
The behaviour of the Red Army after the conquest is controversial with stories of widespread rape and murder following in their wake.