As part of our series of articles on how World War II changed forever the countries that fought in it, ... With the Soviet army approaching, Hungary was being ruled by a puppet Hungarian-Nazi regime.

During World War II, more than 11 million soldiers served in the Army. Only one small unit could count among its ranks three European royals, sons of the last Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg emperor.

Even after the fall of Budapest on February 13, 1945, the Hungarian 3rd Army participated in the last major offensive operation by German troops of World War II near Lake Balaton, codenamed ...

“Tomorrow the sun will shine.” That is how my father encouraged his comrades at the overcrowded “hospital” in the Ukraine in the winter of 1943, on the eastern front of World War II.

Their status remains a sensitive issue and has complicated Hungary's relations with its neighbours. Following World War II, the country found itself under communist rule. An uprising against Soviet ...

That is how my father encouraged his comrades at the overcrowded “hospital” in Ukraine in the winter of 1943, on the eastern front of World War II. Hundreds of Hungarian Jewish forced ...