Operation Panzerfaust

When

15 Oct 1944 – 16 Oct 1944

Kind

Coup

Coordinates

47.50° N, 19.04° E

Description

military operation to occupy Hungary in October 1944

1944 Nazi German military operation to replace Hungary's leadership with loyalists

Operation Panzerfaust 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 leader 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 for…

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• Wikidata: treaties and coupsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der ungarische Reichsverweser Miklós Horthy wird im Kommandounternehmen Panzerfaust von SS-Truppen unter Otto Skorzeny unter Arrest gestellt und am folgenden…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Horthy annonce à la radio qu’il a demandé l’armistice et donne l’ordre de cesser le combat”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ハンガリー王国でドイツ軍と矢十字党によるクーデター（パンツァーファウスト作戦）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page