On this day 2nd November 1944. HUNGARY JOINED THE AXIS POWERS IN DECEMBER 1941, BUT AFTER SUFFERING HUGE LOSSES IN THE BATTLEFIELD, MIKLOS WITHDRAW FROM IT'S ALLIANCE.

 On this day 2nd November 1944. HUNGARY JOINED THE AXIS POWERS IN DECEMBER 1941, BUT AFTER SUFFERING HUGE LOSSES IN THE BATTLEFIELD, MIKLOS WITHDRAW FROM IT'S ALLIANCE, 

Under this new government, the Jews of Hungary were forced into ghettos, and during the spring of 1944, over 435,000 Jews were deported to the Polish concentration camp of Auschwitz and killed.

Soviet units entered the suburbs of Budapest, Hungary.

Hungary joined the Axis Powers alongside Germany in December 1941, but after suffering huge losses on the battlefield, Regent of Hungary Miklós Horthy attempted to withdraw from its alliance with Germany.

 In retaliation, Hitler’s army invaded Hungary in March 1944 and established a fascist government loyal to Germany.

 Under this new government, the Jews of Hungary were forced into ghettos, and during the spring of 1944, over 435,000 Jews were deported to the Polish concentration camp of Auschwitz and killed.

That autumn, Horthy publicly announced that Hungary would break ties with Germany and seek a peace agreement with the Allies, but in response, Hitler overthrew Horthy’s government and put the savagely anti-Semitic Arrow Cross Party, led by Ferenc Szálasi, into power.

 Szálasi’s government terrorized Jews in Budapest, Hungary’s capital, killing over 80,000 of them in Budapest alone and sending another 85,000 on death marches to the Austrian border, while forcing another 70,000 into ghettos.

The Soviet army liberated Hungary in April 1945. All told, around 568,000 Hungarian Jews had died during the Holocaust .

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