33rd Waffen Cavalry Division of the SS (Hungarian No. 3)

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The 33rd Waffen-Kavallerie-Division of the SS (Hungarian No. 3) was a unit of the Waffen-SS formed in November 1944 from scattered Hungarian cavalry units . As a division , however, it really only existed on paper. Even before the planned line-up was implemented, the units previously collected for this purpose were deployed to defend Budapest due to the worsening situation at the front . There they were enclosed by the Red Army together with the two SS cavalry divisions Florian Geyer and Maria Theresia , as well as large parts of the 3rd Hungarian Army , and destroyed at the beginning of February during the Battle of Budapest .

commander

literature

  • Krisztián Ungváry : The Battle of Budapest 1944/45. Stalingrad on the Danube. FA Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7766-2120-6 .
  • Peter Gosztony : The struggle for Budapest 1944/45. In: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau. Jg. 13, 1963, ISSN  0342-4847 , pp. 575-585, 654-672, 729-739; Jg. 14, 1964, pp. 46-61, 92-105, 181-190.
Divisions of the Waffen SS


SS Panzer Divisions

1. “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” • 2. “The Reich” • 3. “Totenkopf” • 5. “Wiking” • 9. “Hohenstaufen” • 10. “Frundsberg” • 12. “Hitler Youth”

SS Panzer Grenadier Divisions

4. "Police Panzer Grenadier Division" • 11. "Nordland" • 16. "Reichsführer SS" • 17. "Götz von Berlichingen" • 18. "Horst Wessel" • 23. "Nederland" (Dutch no. 1) • 28. "Wallonia" (Walloon No. 1)

SS cavalry divisions

8. "Florian Geyer" • 22. • 37.

SS grenadier divisions

27. “Langemarck” (Flemish No. 1) • 31. • 32. “30. January " • 34th" Landstorm Nederland "(Dutch No. 2) • 35th SS Police Grenadier Division • 38th" Nibelungen "

SS mountain divisions

6. "North" • 7. "Prinz Eugen"

Waffen-Cavalry Divisions of the SS

33. (Hungarian No. 3)

Waffen Grenadier Divisions of the SS

14. (Galician No. 1) • 15. (Latvian No. 1) • 19th (Latvian No. 2) • 20th (Estonian No. 1) • 25th (Hungarian No. 1) • 26th (Hungarian No. . 2) • 29. “RONA” (Russian No. 1) • 29. (Italian No. 1) • 30. (Russian No. 2) • 30. (Belarusian No. 1) • 33. “Charlemagne” (French No. 1) • 36.

Waffen Mountain Divisions of the SS

13. “Handschar” (Croatian no. 1) • 21. “Skanderbeg” (Albanian no. 1) • 23rd “Kama” (Croatian no. 2) • 24th Karstjäger division