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The Axis collapses: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 87
Description
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
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