Budapest offensive

Budapest offensive
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Soviet IS-2 tank in action (Battle of Budapest)
Date 29 October 1944 – 13 February 1945 108 days (3 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) Location Budapest and northwestern Hungary Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union Romania Hungary (Debrecen government)	Germany Hungary (Hungarist government)
Commanders and leaders
Rodion Malinovsky Fyodor Tolbukhin	Johannes Friessner Otto Wöhler Károly Beregfy
Units involved
2nd Ukrainian Front 1st Guards Army 6th Guards Army 7th Guards Army 27th Army 40th Army 46th Army 53rd Army 1st Army 4th Army Volunteer Regiment of Buda 3rd Ukrainian Front 4th Guards Army 57th Army	Army Group South 1st Panzer Army 2nd Panzer Army 6th Army 8th Army 1st Army 2nd Army 3rd Army
Strength
719,000	N/A
Casualties and losses
Soviet: 80,026 dead and missing 240,056 wounded and sick Total casualties: 320,082 (including 260,000 combat casualties) 1,766 tanks destroyed 4,127 guns and mortars 293 aircraft 135,100 small arms	Siege of Budapest: 125,000 combat casualties (48,000 killed, 26,000 wounded, 51,000 captured) Total: ~270,000 combat casualties
76,000 civilian dead 38,000 civilians dead in the siege (7,000 executed) 38,000 died in labour or POW camps

The Budapest offensive was the general attack by Soviet and Romanian armies against Hungary and its Axis ally Nazi Germany. The offensive lasted from 29 October 1944 until the fall of Budapest on 13 February 1945. The campaign was one of the most difficult and complicated offensives by the Soviet Army in Central Europe. It resulted in a decisive victory for the USSR and led directly to the end of World War II in Europe.