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A three-minute story from this date in the Second World War, narrated, with the sources to check it. Then the battle it belongs to, drawn on the map phase by phase.
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SUN 15 OCT 1944War day 1,872Eastern Front
Horthy announced an armistice over the radio. German troops were already preparing their answer.
Early on 15 October 1944, Otto Skorzeny and German troops seized Miklós Horthy Jr. at a meeting in Budapest. The younger Horthy had been led to expect envoys of Josip Broz Tito; instead, Skorzeny’s men attacked him, bound him in a carpet and took him to Vienna. He was then transported to Mauthausen concentration camp. The kidnapping removed Horthy’s son from the negotiations and gave the Germans a direct means of pressure on the Regent.
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