The Axis collapses: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 87

In the autumn of 1944, nation after nation abandons the cruel, insane Axis to join the Western Allies or USSR: Romania, Bulgaria, Slovkia … as Finland signs an armistice with the USSR. With the Red Army on the border of Germany itself, Hungary faces the choice: to fight on with, or against, the nazis.

Map 1: The Red Army invades Slovakia

The Dukla Pass is to the right.

 

Map 2: The Battle of Debrecen 

 

 

Photos

General (later Marshal) Rodion Malinovsky, 1944

 

General (later Marshal) Fyodor Tolbukhin, 1944

 

Marshal Ivan Konev, 1945 

 

Milos Horthy, Regent of Hungary, 1944

 

Ferenc Szalisi, Leader of the Hungarian Nation, 1944

 

General Heinz Guderian, Inspector-General of the Army, 1944