TANK BATTLE IN BUDAPEST - German Newsreel Europa Woche Nr. 90 1944

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EUROPA WOCHE Nr. 90
November 14, 1944
1:15 - Germany: Use of young people in industry
2:47 - Germany: Summer courses for women leaders of the Reich Labor Service
3:47 - Germany: Concert event for Czechs laborers in Germany
4:46 - Barcelona (Spain): Swimming competition (harbor crossing)
5:42 - Oslo (Norway): Football match between a Norwegian team and a German team
6:44 - Sweden: National Plowing Championship
7:59 - Northern Italy: construction of fortifications and defensive positions
9:15 - Slovakia: Deployment of the German Wehrmacht against Slovak partisans
10:55 - Budapest area (Hungary): Armored combat operations in the southeastern sector of the front
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12:50 - BONUS: Additional Hungarian combat footage 1944
The Red Army started its offensive against the city on 29 October 1944. More than 1,000,000 men, split into two operating maneuver groups, advanced. The plan was to isolate Budapest from the rest of the German and Hungarian forces. On 7 November 1944, Soviet and Romanian troops entered the eastern suburbs, 20 kilometers from the old town. On 26 December, a road linking Budapest to Vienna was seized by Soviet troops, thereby completing the encirclement.
As a result of the Soviet link-up, nearly 33,000 German and 37,000 Hungarian soldiers, as well as over 800,000 civilians, became trapped within the city. Refusing to authorize a withdrawal, Adolf Hitler had declared Budapest a fortress city (Festung Budapest), which was to be defended to the last man. Waffen SS General Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, the commander of the IX Waffen SS Alpine Corps, was put in charge of the city's defenses.
Street fighting in Budapest increased in intensity. Supply became a decisive factor because of the loss of the Ferihegy airport on 27 December 1944, just before the start of the siege. Until 9 January 1945, German troops were able to use some of the main avenues as well as the park next to Buda Castle as landing zones for aircraft and gliders, although they were under constant artillery fire from the Soviets. Before the Danube froze, some supplies could be sent on barges, under the cover of darkness and fog. Food shortages were more and more common and soldiers had to rely on finding their own sources of sustenance, some even resorting to eating their horses. The extreme temperatures also affected German and Hungarian troops. Soviet troops quickly found themselves in the same situation as the Germans had in Stalingrad. They were able to take advantage of the urban terrain by relying heavily on snipers and sappers to advance.
Fighting broke out in the sewers, as both sides used them for troop movements. Six Soviet marines even managed to get to Castle Hill and capture a German officer before returning to their own lines - still underground. Such feats were rare because of ambushes in the sewers set up by the Axis troops using local inhabitants as guides. In mid-January, Csepel Island was taken, along with its military factories, which were still producing Panzerfausts and shells, even under Soviet fire. Meanwhile, in Pest, the situation for the Axis forces deteriorated, with the garrison facing the risk of being cut in half by the advancing Soviet troops. On 17 January 1945, Hitler agreed to withdraw the remaining troops from Pest to try to defend Buda.
Unlike Pest, which is built on flat terrain, Buda was built on hills. This allowed the defenders to site artillery and fortifications above the attackers, greatly slowing the Soviet advance. The main citadel, (Gellért Hill), was defended by Waffen-SS troops who successfully repelled several Soviet assaults. Nearby, Soviet and German forces were fighting for the city cemetery amongst shell-opened tombs; it would last for several days.
The fighting on Margaret Island, in the middle of the Danube, was particularly merciless. The island was still attached to the rest of the city by the remaining half of the Margaret Bridge and was used as a parachute drop zone as well as for covering improvised airstrips set up in the city center. The 25th Guards Rifle Division operated from the Soviet side in combat on the island (for losses see below).
On 11 February 1945, Gellért Hill finally fell after six weeks of fighting when the Soviets launched a heavy attack from three directions simultaneously. Soviet artillery was able to dominate the entire city and to shell the remaining Axis defenders, who were concentrated in less than two square kilometres and suffering from malnutrition and disease.
After capturing the southern railway station during a two-day bloodbath, Soviet troops advanced to Castle Hill. On 10 February, after a violent assault, Soviet marines established a bridgehead on Castle Hill, while almost cutting the remaining garrison in half.

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[@kondor99999]

I wonder how the Germans felt, seeing how the names and places were constantly moving Westward. Surely it was obvious that the war was being lost. “Weren’t we fighting near Kiev a year ago?”

[@sozialistischespatientenko3797]

For one thing, the maps shown in the Wochenschau in 1944 did NOT show towns like Moscow anymore. If they had done it, it would be too obvious that the front wandered steadily westward compared to November/December 1941. Beside this, Goebbels masterfully talked about "frontline shortenings", "planned disengagements" and pointed to the huge Russian losses, which were almost always much, much higher than the losses on the German side. Another trick, which also can be seen today (Russo-Ukrainian war): as long as a position or city can be hold, it is strategically important. As soon as it is lost: no value whatsoever-->"planned disengagement". As far as I´ve been told by my grandma (I´m from Germany), they did not feel really uncomfortable with the course of the war (as it was presented to them by Goebbels!) until the Soviets crossed the German border in autumn 1944. Until then: so what? It´s not our land anyway. My grandpa on the other hand was on the Eastern Front and was forced to take part in this sh*itshow from 1941 until Berlin in 1945. He certainly got more intimate knowledge about the German chances, sadly (but understandingly) he never spoke much about what he was forced to witness there... Ruhe in Frieden, Opa! Don´t let that ever, ever happen again!

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

​@@sozialistischespatientenko3797Your Grandpa fought against the greatest threat to humanity: Communism. Today we embrace it. Where it will lead to, we can see every day with our own eyes. We were warned a long time ago, not just by Hitler, but by many others as well. They lost, now we will face the music.

[@OpiumEnjoyer19]

On the 24th of December a small Hungarian Flak squad was placed outside of my grandmothers house on the Soroksári street in Budapest, my grandmother called them in for dinner, since they were hungry and freezing out on the street, after dinner the hungarian soldiers left, a few minutes after they returned to their position they were targeted by some Katyusha rocket launcher and killed.

[@kondor99999]

Sounds like it could have happened just the other day in Ukraine. War never changes.

[@user-gg9hg8go6j]

Бабушка привечала фашиств. Сколько горя принесли моей родине венгры. Поделом им пособникам фашистов.

[@user-xb5bh9ig1v]

😢😮

[@helmuthaberkost4901]

​@@user-gg9hg8go6jtypischer kommunistischer, rachsüchtiger und unversöhnlicher Hass!!! Wir haben die Verbrechen der Bolschewisten an uns und der Welt auch nicht vergessen, aber wir vergeben euch!!! Und das trotz der 10 Millionen Deutsche, die nach 1945 ermordet wurden!!!

[@josefkopacz1144]

​@@user-gg9hg8go6j Soviet stooge.

[@slimbim77]

What can I say, I simply love your channel where I can see footage that I don't get to see anywhere else.Thank you!

[@M1945]

Slimbim, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@drbrainstein1644]

You know it was Mark Felton who recommended your channel back when you had just over 2000 subscribers. So I’ve been sticking around for a while now and ya, it’s totally worth it. 👍

[@M1945]

Brainstein, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@waltie1able]

Very sad. My mother, her sister and mother and father were in Berlin up until the Russians came, got out just in time. My two uncles were on the Easter Front. I am 73 years old now. Mother married a US Army Sargent . You cannot win when you are fighting the rest of the entire world.

[@helmuthaberkost4901]

Du weißt genau, weshalb wir Deutschen zum kämpfen gezwungen wurden, weil die Feinde Deutschlands uns zerstören wollten. Es ging wie immer darum, einen starken Konkurrenten auszuschalten, insbesondere seine Ideale und sein Streben nach Unabhängigkeit!!! Wir erschufen ein neues System, entkoppelt von Zinsknechtschaft!!! Mein Vater (1921) wußte genau wofür er 6 Jahre kämpfte und 9 Jahre Gefangenschaft überstand!!!

[@pawelpap9]

It’s not like the rest of the world attacked you.

[@francocalabria3971]

​@@pawelpap9 Approfondisci i fatti storici e capirai che la Germania e l'Italia sono state le uniche nazioni a voler fermare le Oligarchie Finanziarie usurarie veri padroni del Pianeta che decidono il nostro destino. E capirai anche che gli usurai del pianeta hanno pianificato lo scoppio della prima e seconda guerra mondiale e non solo...

[@yannickduval5485]

​@@pawelpap9...yes it is

[@M1945]

Waltie, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@tmatkovits]

My paternal Grandfather was a Reserve Lieutenant in the Royal Hungarian Army and spent most of 1942/43 in occupied Eastern Ukraine and West Russia. Thankfully he was able to avoid the late 1944 call ups and final collapse.

[@mikejohnson2098]

Thanks for posting

[@M1945]

Mike, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@danielgreen3715]

You Never Disappoint us with your Videos Frederick There's always something interesting that one sees on these Clips Cheers

[@M1945]

Daniel, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@mariosantana4725]

Great video. Thanks.

[@M1945]

Mario, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@peterchilcott628]

Sehr interessante Aufnahmen.😊

[@TheWilferch]

Fantastic quality and content for war footage of this era..... your latest offerings have exceeded your normal high standards !! .......

[@mariosprenger5186]

Immer wieder interessant!👍

[@ernstmogensen]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@M1945]

Ernst, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@user-ls7ui9el8w]

Vielen Dank.

[@larrybedouin2921]

Thanks Frederick.

[@M1945]

Larry, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@88Truc]

Missed your LIVESTREAM... Bummer. Will keep eye out next time Fred. Nick

[@M1945]

Nick, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@stevep5408]

Amazing how Smiling Albert is instantly recognizable!

[@M1945]

Steve, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@jasonmussett2129]

Very interesting! Good stuff! 👍

[@M1945]

Jason, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@jasonmussett2129]

@@M1945 I' ll be there👍

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

Impagables éstas joyas documentales de la propaganda alemana.. insuperables!

[@michalbobko2354]

The guy's document @ 10:35 is in Polish, valid til 1949 and he is registered in Lemberg, German for Lwow. Today's Lviv Ukraine.

[@TheWilferch]

The various places names....changed overall over time or simply as known in certain languages.....makes following this an extremely difficult proposition for me as I uncover and use various sources ( and nationalities) of information. The further point.....the incredibly "different" names for these places....not just linguisitc minor changes to give you a hint. (Lemberg = Lwow = Lviv, etc)

[@pawelpap9]

Actually document is in Russian with Polish translations in parenthesis. It is stamped with German text. I assume it was issued by the Soviet occupiers after September 1939.

[@M1945]

Michal, a new Budapest video is going live kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqQY4Kmj8toeNU

[@Berlin-Kladow]

Is the women’s leadership course filmed at the Royal Palaces at Potsdam or Hannover ?

[@jim7544]

Almost all of central and eastern Europe would have chosen German rule over Soviet rule in 1944 - had they the ability to choose.

[@andraslibal]

With the exception of the nations that got played by the British to bleed for their gains, some of the highest losses of populations dying for a Britain that would abandon them. 17% of Polish 14% of Serbs and 11% of Greeks perishing for British war aims, gaining nothing from Britain in the end.

[@yuppy1967]

Don’t forget the Czechs.

[@Chiller11]

Not if you’re Jewish or Roma I’m guessing.

[@rafarazniewski6154]

To tak jakbyś wybierał między dżumą a syfilisem.

[@Berlin-Kladow]

So many displaced went West which was to the benefit and gain of US, Canada , Australia, NZ where many emigrated to. Loss to the nations of Europe.

[@BearFlagRebel]

Probably the battle of the Hungarian Plain that took place in the fall of 44.

[@Angelo-ef2xu]

Amazing ! Horrido !

[@JGCR59]

That Mortar starting from 13:40 is not really used as it should be

[@helmuthaberkost4901]

Yes but in some circumstances in fight you need to shoot in close range!!!

[@martinwarner1178]

Beautiful people, with a good organised society. Unlike todays West. Peace and goodwill.

[@Ccccccccccsssssssssss]

Guess after all these years you still haven't learned what propaganda is

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

​@@CcccccccccsssssssssssWe in western society learn every day what propaganda is: fight right wing extremism and love the Jw.

[@andraslibal]

12:55 "... against the Red Horde. With a constant patrolling activity they discover the enemy nests and then with the use of their firearms they annihilate the attacking bolshevik troops."

[@andraslibal]

@@user-gg9hg8go6j I am translating a historical video. Germans did not rape women and did not take all men to Siberia. Soviets did. I tend to believe my grandma on that not the history books.

[@helmuthaberkost4901]

​@@andraslibalI thank you for your translation and your words!!! I agree with you!!! Greetings from Germany!!!

[@myguitarjoe]

Hát nem mindeki érti,de mink igen.

[@pawelpap9]

@@andraslibalYou should consider history books though. Single witness story, no matter how touching, can easily paint a misleading picture. I would also submit for your consideration that Germans starved to death Soviet POWs. Maybe Siberia could be a welcome alternative.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

@@andraslibal Germans raped and killed woman and children. And not just SS, regular Wehrmacht troops did that in the East.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Typical Wochenschau would start with sports/culture/entertainment , opposite of modern news. This was to persuade you that life goes almost as normal, and if something bad happened to you, it is just insignificant detail and you are to blame if you fill miserable. Then it would be economy, home front, and life in rear for frontline units. This was to persuade you that you could do more, as so many other people are doing, and that life is not that bad even if you end up in the army. Finally, news from the front, victories, burning enemy tanks shot from multiple angles to persuade viewers there were dozens of them ... Of course, astute viewer would notice that victories are getting closer to home, and so is map shown (without frontlines). He would also notice preparations for defense, and no one talking about offensive any more. P.S. Hungarian troops in the video seem particularly badly trained. Notice bad handling of mortar (overturns after shot ), and hand grenade.