{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Battle for Budapest, Part 1—Episode 90","description":"\"Budapest lay athwart the main entry route to Austria and Bohemia. It was the main railway hub of the region and also the largest Danubian port. The Red Army could not bypass it. This was the first time in the war that the Red Army had to lay siege to a major city.\"\n\nThe Red Army assaults the capital of nazi Germany’s final remaining partner in the Second World War. The war appears to be almost lost—but that’s seen through hindsight. No one at the time knew that.\n\nMap 1: The Eastern Front, December 1944\n\nMap 2: Germany’s eastern and western fronts, 1 December 1944\n\nMap 3: The Petsamo-Kirkenes operation in northern Finland\n\nMap 4: The Red Army attacks BudapestOperation Konrad II\n\nPeople\n\n\n\nMihai I, King of Romania, 1944–1947\n\n\n\n\n\nMiklos Horthy, Regent of Hungary\n\n\n\n\n\nMiklos Horthy Jr.\n\n\n\n\n\nFerence Szalasi, nazi dictator of Hungary, 1944–1945\n\n\n\n\n\nEdmund Veesenmayer, Hitler’s “Special Envoy” to Hungary, 1944–1945\n\n\n\nSS-Obergruppenführer Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, commander of IX SS Mountain Corps\n\nHistorical photos: Fighting in Budapest\n\n\n\nSources\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. New York, NY, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War, 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017.\n\nMorse code by Thane Brown\n\nMusic composed and recorded by Nicolas Bury\n\nHosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762293/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}