Take Budapest by Kamen Nevenkin

Author:Kamen Nevenkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752477039
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

The operations of the Soviet armoured formations during the first Budapest offensive (29 October – 6 November 1944), events described in Chapters 8, 9 and 10.

The successful Soviet advance on that day forced Friessner to reorganise his southern wing once again. In order to strengthen the defensive line and tighten the control over the Hungarians, he placed the Magyar VII and VIII Army Corps under the III and LVII Panzer Corps respectively. Thus two strong task forces were established under Fretter-Pico: Panzer Groups ‘Breith’ and ‘Kirchner’. Fretter-Pico himself received instructions to stop the enemy at the Kunszentmiklós–Kecskemét–Szolnok line.188 General Breith, whose staff had just arrived from the Nyíregyháza area, was entrusted with the responsibility of defending Budapest from the south. For that purpose he was given the four divisions still in transit (8 and 22 SS, ‘Feldherrnhalle’ and 13 Panzer). Friessner was sure that with these divisions he would be able to plug the gap between the two Hungarian corps and finally defeat Shlemin at Kecskemét. While giving these orders he could not take into account the fact that barely an hour before the 4th Guards Mechanised Corps had begun to sneak through that gap. Malinovsky and Shlemin had outplayed him: throughout the day they used Sviridov’s and Kolchuk’s corps as a shield to absorb the full weight of the German counter-attacks and thus screened the route of advance of Zhdanov’s and Grigorovich’s troops. These were intended to be the sword that was to deliver the coup de main against Budapest.

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