Operation Panzerfaust
Operation Panzerfaust (German: Unternehmen Panzerfaust, lit. 'Operation Armored Fist') was a military operation undertaken in October 1944 by the German Wehrmacht to ensure the Kingdom of Hungary would remain a German ally in World War II. When German dictator Adolf Hitler received word that Hungary's Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating his country's surrender to the advancing Red Army, he sent commando leader Otto Skorzeny of the Waffen-SS and former special forces commander Adrian von Fölkersam to Hungary. Hitler feared that Hungary's surrender would expose his southern flank, where Romania had just joined with the Soviets and cut off a million German troops still fighting the Soviet advance in the Balkans. The operation was preceded by Operation Margarethe in March 1
- Abstraction100002137
- Act100030358
- Activity100407535
- Battle100953559
- Conflict100958896
- event
- Event
- Event
- Event100029378
- GroupAction101080366
- MilitaryAction100952963
- military conflict
- Operation100955060
- PsychologicalFeature100023100
- Q1656682
- SocietalEvent
- Thing
- WikicatBattlesAndOperationsOfTheEasternFrontOfWorldWarII
- WikicatBattlesInvolvingHungary
- WikicatBattlesOfWorldWarIIInvolvingGermany
- WikicatConflictsIn1944
- WikicatMilitaryOperationsOfWorldWarIIInvolvingGermany
- YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity
- Caption
- enSS soldiers from 22 SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division Maria Theresia review captured weapons found in courtyard of Buda Castle, including a Hungarian anti-aircraft self-propelled gun 40M Nimród and a 40mm 40M anti-tank gun.
- Combatant
- *Arrow Cross Party
- Germany
- Hungary
- Combatant
- enGermany * Arrow Cross Party
- enHungary
- Commander
- Commander
- Adrian von Fölkersam
- Commander
- Adrian von Fölkersam
- Commander
- Béla Miklós
- Commander
- Béla Miklós
- Commander
- Edmund Veesenmayer
- Commander
- Edmund Veesenmayer
- Commander
- Ferenc Szálasi
- Commander
- Ferenc Szálasi
- Commander
- Géza Lakatos
- Commander
- Géza Lakatos
- Commander
- Iván Hindy
- Commander
- Iván Hindy
- Commander
- János Vörös
- Commander
- János Vörös
- Commander
- Károly Beregfy
- Commander
- Károly Beregfy
- Commander
- Lajos Csatay
- Commander
- Lajos Csatay
- Commander
- Lajos Veress
- Commander
- Lajos Veress
- Commander
- Miklós Horthy
- Commander
- Miklós Horthy
- Commander
- Otto Skorzeny
- Commander
- Otto Skorzeny
- Comment
- enOperation Panzerfaust (German: Unternehmen Panzerfaust, lit. 'Operation Armored Fist') was a military operation undertaken in October 1944 by the German Wehrmacht to ensure the Kingdom of Hungary would remain a German ally in World War II. When German dictator Adolf Hitler received word that Hungary's Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating his country's surrender to the advancing Red Army, he sent commando leader Otto Skorzeny of the Waffen-SS and former special forces commander Adrian von Fölkersam to Hungary. Hitler feared that Hungary's surrender would expose his southern flank, where Romania had just joined with the Soviets and cut off a million German troops still fighting the Soviet advance in the Balkans. The operation was preceded by Operation Margarethe in March 1
- Conflict
- enOperation Panzerfaust
- Date
- 16 October 1944
- Date
- --10-16
- Depiction
.jpg)
.svg)
- Has abstract
- enOperation Panzerfaust (German: Unternehmen Panzerfaust, lit. 'Operation Armored Fist') was a military operation undertaken in October 1944 by the German Wehrmacht to ensure the Kingdom of Hungary would remain a German ally in World War II. When German dictator Adolf Hitler received word that Hungary's Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating his country's surrender to the advancing Red Army, he sent commando leader Otto Skorzeny of the Waffen-SS and former special forces commander Adrian von Fölkersam to Hungary. Hitler feared that Hungary's surrender would expose his southern flank, where Romania had just joined with the Soviets and cut off a million German troops still fighting the Soviet advance in the Balkans. The operation was preceded by Operation Margarethe in March 1944, which was the occupation of Hungary by German forces, which Hitler had hoped would secure Hungary's place in the Axis powers. This had also enabled the deportation of the majority of Hungarian Jews, previously beyond the reach of the Nazis, through uneasy cooperation with Hungarian authorities. This policy was, however, terminated as Soviet forces drew closer and the USAAF, based in Italy, began bombing Hungary, including Budapest.
- Hypernym
- Operation
- IsPartOfMilitaryConflict
- World War II
- Is primary topic of
- Operation Panzerfaust
- Label
- enOperation Panzerfaust
- Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
- 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia
- 3.7 cm Pak 36
- 40M Nimród
- 7th Army (United States)
- Adolf Hitler
- Adrian von Fölkersam
- Alexander Patch
- Arrow Cross Party
- Axis powers
- Balkans
- Béla Miklós
- Buda Castle
- Budapest
- Category:1940s coups d'état and coup attempts
- Category:Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II
- Category:Battles and operations of World War II involving Hungary
- Category:Germany–Hungary relations
- Category:Military operations of World War II involving Germany
- Commander of the Defence Forces (Hungary)
- Edmund Veesenmayer
- Ferenc Szálasi
- Fifteenth Air Force
- File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-680-8282A-38A, Budapest, Panzer VI (Tiger II, Königstiger).jpg
- Géza Lakatos
- Iván Hindy
- János Vörös
- Josip Broz Tito
- Károly Beregfy
- Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)
- Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)
- Kingdom of Romania
- Lajos Csatay
- Lajos Veress
- Marshal of Yugoslavia
- Mauthausen concentration camp
- Miklós Horthy
- Miklós Horthy Jr.
- Nazi Germany
- Operation Bagration
- Operation Margarethe
- Otto Skorzeny
- Red Army
- Regent of Hungary
- Royal Hungarian Army
- The Holocaust in Hungary
- Tiger II
- Waffen-SS
- Weilheim in Oberbayern
- World War II
- Yugoslavia
- Name
- enOperation Panzerfaust
- Partof
- World War II
- Place
- Budapest
- Place
- Budapest
- Place
- Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)
- Place
- Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)
- Result
- Overthrow of RegentMiklós Horthy
- Pro-NaziArrow Cross Partycame to power
- Result
- enOverthrow of Regent Miklós Horthy
- enPro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party came to power
- SameAs
- «Պանցերֆաուստ» ռազմագործողություն
- 2BRdH
- m.05rq0x
- Operação Panzerfaust
- Operace Panzerfaust
- Operácia Panzerfaust
- Operación Panzerfaust
- Operacja Panzerfaust
- Operasi Panzerfaust
- Operasi Panzerfaust
- Operation Panzerfaust
- Operation Panzerfaust
- Operation Panzerfaust
- Opération Panzerfaust
- Operazione Panzerfaust
- Panzerfaust Harekâtı
- Q2311171
- Unternehmen Panzerfaust
- Операция «Панцерфауст»
- Операция „Брониран юмрук“
- Операција Панцерфауст
- Операція «Панцерфауст»
- מבצע פאנצרפאוסט
- ปฏิบัติการพันแซร์เฟาสท์
- パンツァーファウスト作戦
- 鐵拳行動
- 판처파우스트 작전
- Subject
- Category:1940s coups d'état and coup attempts
- Category:Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II
- Category:Battles and operations of World War II involving Hungary
- Category:Germany–Hungary relations
- Category:Military operations of World War II involving Germany
- Thumbnail
- WasDerivedFrom
- Operation Panzerfaust?oldid=1122942624&ns=0
- WikiPageLength
- 10489
- Wikipage page ID
- 1729716
- Wikipage revision ID
- 1122942624
- WikiPageUsesTemplate
- Template:Cn
- Template:Coord missing
- Template:Flagicon
- Template:Flagicon image
- Template:Infobox military conflict
- Template:One source
- Template:Quote
- Template:Refimprove
- Template:Reflist
- Template:Rp
- Template:Short description
- Template:WWIITheatre
