NationMaster - Encyclopedia: First Army (Hungary)

The Hungarian First Army was a Hungarian field army of World War II. Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33...

Under Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, Hungary was an Axis state at the beginning of the European conflict. On 1 March 1940, the small Hungarian Army formed three field armies. All three Hungarian armies were to ultimately see action on the Eastern Front against the Red Army. But, unlike the Hungarian Third Army which took part in theinvasion of Yugoslavia (1941) and the Hungarian Second Army that fought at the Battle of Stalingrad (1942), the Hungarian First Army did not see much combat at the start of the war. MiklÃ³s Horthy de NagybÃ¡nya, Duke of Szeged and Otranto (Hungarian: VitÃ©z* nagybÃ¡nyai Horthy MiklÃ³s, Szeged Ã©s Otranto hercege; Kenderes, June 18, 1868 â€“ Estoril, February 9, 1957) was a Hungarian Admiral and statesman and served as the Regent of Hungary from March 1, 1920 until October... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the continent. ... // Ancient and medieval military The Hungarian tribes of ÃrpÃ¡d vezÃ©r who came to settle in the Carpathian Basin were noted for their fearsome horse-mounted warriors, who conducted frequent looting campaigns throughout much of Western Europe (once as far as Spain), terrorizing the entire population with their long... Combatants Soviet Union1 Poland Germany1 Italy (to 1943) Romania Finland (to 1944) Hungary Commanders Aleksei Antonov Ivan Konev Rodion Malinovsky Kirill Meretskov Ivan Petrov Alexander Rodimtsev Konstantin Rokossovsky Pavel Rotmistrov Semyon Timoshenko Fyodor Tolbukhin Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolai Vatutin Kliment Voroshilov Andrei Yeremenko Matvei Zakharov Georgy Zhukov Fedor von Bock Ernst... The Workers and Peasants Red Army (Russian: Ð Ð°Ð±Ð¾Ñ‡Ðµ-ÐšÑ€ÐµÑÑ‚ÑŒÑÐ½ÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÐšÑ€Ð°ÑÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐÑ€Ð¼Ð¸Ñ, Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA or usually simply the Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that in 1922 became the army of the Soviet Union. ... The Third Army was a combat formation of the Hungarian Army which saw action during World War II. Commanders Lieutenant General ElemÃ©r Gorondy-Novak (1 Mar 1940 - 1 Nov 1941) Lieutenant General ZoltÃ©n Decleva (1 Nov 1941 - 1 Dec 1942) Lieutenant General Lajos Csatay (1 Dec 1942 - 12... Invasion of Yugoslavia Operation 25 was the german code-name for the so-called April War, the German attack on Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Combatants Germany Italy Romania Hungary Croatia Soviet Union Commanders Friedrich Paulus # Erich von Manstein Hermann Hoth Vasiliy Chuikov Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy Georgy Zhukov Semyon Timoshenko Strength German Sixth Army German Fourth Panzer Army Romanian Third Army Romanian Fourth Army Hungarian Second Army Italian Eighth Army Unknown number of Germans Unknown number...

The first commander of the Hungarian First Army was Lieutenant-General (or Altábornagy according to the Hungarian army rank) Vilmos Nagy. Under Nagy, the Hungarian First Army did take part in Hungary's annexation of northern Transylvania after this region of Romania was awarded to Hungary as a condition of the Second Vienna Award. Map of Romania with Transylvania in yellow Transylvania (Romanian: or Transilvania; Hungarian: ; German: ; Serbian: / Transilvanija or Ð•Ñ€Ð´ÐµÑ™ / Erdelj) is a historical region in central and western Romania. ... The Second Vienna Award was the second of two Vienna Awards. ...

The troops of the Hungarian First Army, like all Hungarian troops, were part of the one-million-plus non-German Axis troops on the Eastern Front. While the majority of these Axis troops were Romanian, there were also significant contingents of Hungarians, Finns, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Italians, Slovakians, Croations, Frenchmen, Danes, Norweigens, Belgians, and Spaniards. The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed to the Allies. ... Eastern Front may refer to one of the following. ...

In 1944, as Soviet troops entered Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, the Hungarian First Army continued its precarious existence in Hungary. This, even after much of Hungary was under Soviet control. Motto: ÐŸÑ€Ð¾Ð»ÐµÑ‚Ð°Ñ€Ð¸Ð¸ Ð²ÑÐµÑ… ÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð°Ð½, ÑÐ¾ÐµÐ´Ð¸Ð½ÑÐ¹Ñ‚ÐµÑÑŒ! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) Translation: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem: The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital (and largest city) Moscow Official languages None; Russian de facto Government Socialist Republic/Federation of Soviet Republics - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev - Last Premier Ivan Silayev...

On 28 December 1944, a newly founded Hungarian government, under acting Prime Minister Béla Miklós, officially declared war against Nazi Germany. But the Germans and pro-German Hungarians in Hungary fought on. Most of what remained of the Hungarian First Army was destroyed about 200 miles north of Budapest between 1 January 1945 and 16 February 1945. However, the Hungarian First Army did not cease to exist. The remnants fought on and the army was not officially disbanded until 8 May 1945. That is when the last commander of the Hungarian First Army, Lieutenant-General László Dezső, surrendered. BÃ©la MiklÃ³s de DÃ¡lnok (1890â€“1948) was a Hungarian politician who served as acting Prime Minister of Hungary, at first in opposition, and then officially, from 1944 to 1945. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

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