5th Royal Hungarian Reserve Division

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The 5th Royal Hungarian Reserve Division was a division of the Royal Hungarian Army during World War II .

The division was formed in October 1943 from the 5th Royal Hungarian Light Infantry Division. On April 1, 1944, she was incorporated into the VIII Royal Hungarian Army Corps. A month later she was assigned to the Hungarian occupation command in the Soviet Union . Assigned to the II Royal Hungarian Reserve Corps under General Jenö Bor (later Major General Bela Lengyel ), the division was deployed under the command of Major General László Szabó as part of the 2nd German Army in the Pripjet Marshes area. In the course of the Soviet summer offensive Operation Bagration , the division had to fight back north of the Pripjet via Pinsk towards Brest-Litovsk at the end of June 1944 . After a large part of the areas under German occupation had to be surrendered by the Wehrmacht , the Hungarian occupation command had become superfluous.

Because of the rapid advance of the Red Army in the Balkans, the division was relocated to Hungary in September 1944, where it was re-incorporated into the II Royal Hungarian Reserve Corps. The division was deployed in Hungary until April 1945 and surrendered to the Red Army near Zlín in Czechoslovakia in May 1945 .

literature

  • Charles D. Pettibone: The Organization and Order Or Batte of Militaries in World War II , Volume 7: Germany's and Imperial Japans Allies & Puppet States , p. 157