The Budapest Siege

World War II German Military
#101

Memoirs of a medical flag lieutnant

“Before the breakout I classed to the german military hospital.At the south side a dark gaping hole was the entrance to the underground levels of the Castle.Thin and tired looking german doctor coming with two military medical assistant.Now his primary objective,deliver of the corpses,no other treatment.We divided to three group,and get the charge analyze the injureds how many attendace is necessery on each level.
I’m going down to the deep second floor.
We’re moving forward slowly,just a few candle twinkle.The air is dense and smothery: blood,rotting,excrement,urine,exudation,cigarette smoke and gunpowder mixed to a consistent reek.
The reek is infest to the corridors and awful.
The flashlights is cut images from the gloom: on the corridor both side the injureds laying on the wood pallets and the floor,mostly in uniform with belts maybe the holsters isn’t empty and may we found some handgrenades in the pockets too.
Groanings,sighs,inarticulate german plaints,praying and cursing.The poems of Dante is so sterile from this hell.”

“Now we enter the last third floor down: there is the class of the head shooted wounds,blinds and the lames.
On the floor two or three person laying,their facelines is calm,mute and moveless.
We found some hungarian soldier also.A few painkiller is for a few men,to say goodbye.”

#102

The morgue is at the bottom catacombs and in a out of order kitchen,every room full with the corpses.
The military hospital is burst into flames,several time.
Perhaps the smoking injureds gave the fire.
At 18th of february the upper level flare up again.

Memoirs of a medical officer

“The fire is coming from the side wing,from the ammo storage under our hospital.The curtains,the inlays on the wall,and the pallets of the injured is feeding fast the fire.The light of the flames is blinded us,the ammunition and the grenades is blasting and the injured screaming in the midst of the raspy blazes.A 2 meter wide corridor is the only exit from the upper level.We haven’t got time to save everyone.We drag out around 100 injured,but many of them frozen at outside in the snow.We hasn’t got too much choice…”

“After the fire we searching for survivors in the catacombs.The room is separate with a big iron door from the corridor.A few men try to open the heavy door from the outside: we enter a reeking,obnoxious room,the room is full with sorely injured german and hungarian officers.The peoples are strip off and perfuse the hot walls with their piddle.”

The fire has 300 - 800 victim

(After the breakout,a few times russian soldiers burning alive many injured at the hospital for fun.)

#103

12 of february 1945

Memoirs of a civil servant
“At the morning queer quiet sit under the town.Sometimes hear single shots,submachinegun bursts.The fights continues already at the nearest mountains around the capitol.In the streets only a few roaming animals,and some crazed starving soldier who search a hideout.The soviets are evacuate the inner districts all executive break off a few hour.
I make a move into the downtown.
Along the way I saw a knocked out tank,ruined buildings abandoned ammo carts and corpses everywhere.
No one on the streets.
I going into the charge to see my office,everything is ruined in the office also.
I move out from the building and get going to the direction of the Hall Of The Ministry.
A man coming from the end of the main street with turned down head:the under secretary of the ministry
- Please leave me alone… and he moving further
The beautiful baroque style building is ruined also.
I’m going in:I saw the remaining of the Royal Carts,and two dead horse and a corpse in the stable.
Time to get home
At the Edelsheim gate someone standing at the doorway in the twillight.I scared, turn back and choose another way.
When I get to the hospital I see two unarmed german soldier coming out from the gate.
They saw me and start to run away.”

#104

Memoirs of a undergrad student

"In the morning I step in to the boarding school with a greeting:
- We’re liberated hurrah!
But silence and dark looks welcome me.At the midnight the soviets rape 10-15 student at the air raid shelter,then send the girls for a three day penal servitude.

  • “The war is over” I tought as much and I going to see my father and my sister.
    I heard news some germans still in the Castle,accordingly I avoid the area.
    I turned around to a street suddenly firefight start.
    I going in a high class house and found three young man who wants to join that way.
    A little bit later we get going without shooting.
    We don’t see anybody on the streets,just corpses.
    At the cartography institution we found about 20 german and hungarian troop corpses in one pile,and in a big burned down parlol we saw more dead soldier.
    The view look like very oppressive,like in the Bergman film soldiers on the surface of the sea.
    I separate with my casual friends,and move along alone,to one of my classmate.
    No one on the streets.
    I get into the building and open the front door:I suddenly shocked
    10-15 high standing german officer in one group inside the court.
    Their uniform was a little bit rusty but the red line on their trousers and the gold epaulettes is show exquisite difference the previously seen troops corpses in greycoat.
    I start to mumble but it seems they also get frightened of my turnout.
    I think they waiting for to capture someone them and they isn’t look like in world conquer mood.
  • Als Zivil, können Sie sicherlich gehen - sad one of them,and I walk out from the courtyard.
    I going in to the boarding school,someone tell me the russians promulgate curfew from half past two because the clean up is starting,the soviets is rake up the german and hungarian soldiers who disperse under the breakout."
#105

Memoirs of a civilian
“At 17th of january about 10 pm a few SS troops break in our air raid shelter from the by pass passages.They announce us the whole company is coming about one hour in,then they break the other exit,and gone.
About one hour isn’t the SS only a squad of Red Army soldier is coming.
The janitor tell the soviets about the SS troops,and the soldiers is hide in the next room behind the water tanks and wait for the germans.
About midnight the SS troops is arrived.
The soviets let in only 5-6,then start to firing them with their sub machineguns.
Blissfully they saw in the twillight the incoming SS soldier with the panzerfaust and hit him first so he isn’t fire off the panzerfaust.
Either SS is drop a handgrenade between the russians and that’s made big trouble the water tanks is blow up,and the water is overflow the rooms.
We stand up our boxes what we use to bed.
About 1:00 am the Red Army soldiers is whip us into the streets.
The SS who hit first is still rattle when we pass him,his pazerfaust is put into the corner of the exploded water tanks.
Up at the streets was terribly cold,the corpse mountains hasn’t got any smell.”

#106

Memoirs of a civilian

“Rashly the mass is stop by the russian soldiers,and we don’t know what’s happened.
A german coming alone down from the street in frazzled uniform,unarmed and with opened mantle his iron cross is clearly distinct.
The three russian guard is start to discuss.
The soldier is getting closer,and one of our guard is deflect the soldier to the abandoned street car railways into the snow.
When the german is get the railways the russian is hit him at his nape.
I think if the russian isn’t saw the iron cross,that man is have escape…”

#107

Report of a private detective

The behavior of the Red Army is the following after the arrival

[i]- The soldiers is usually in drunken status

  • The soldiers usually rape every woman
  • The soldiers steal everything
    (from the paintings,money,gold,clothes to the cover of the bed.Mostly interested in shiny things,and they very like the alarm clocks,and robbing from the civilians their tickers but don’t know how to read the time)[/i]
    [i]- The soldiers isn’t respect their officers,usually resist the commands
  • The soldiers like and feeding the kids in sensible status (many woman saved her crying children from the raping)
  • The soldiers sometimes barbarous with the civilians
  • The soldiers always barbarous with their russians who switch into the enemy (usually beat them hard,in serious situations cut them with swords and execute)[/i]
    [i]- The soldiers isn’t respect the spiritual they broke and move into the church
    (cut everything into pieces,steal the gold crosses and other gold things,drink from the mass cup)
  • The soldiers searching for the members of the Waffen SS and the german injured in the hospital and execute them usually.
    (in a playing fields the russians dig their own graves a squad of Waffen SS soldier and execute them.Drop grenades to the rooms in the hospital between the injured,or overrun the injured with their tanks,burning alive,shoot down the injured or chop up with axes,and the heads put into the terrace of the Citadell) [/i]
    - Sometimes permissive with the enemy troops,occurent thing some russian soldier drop to a hungarian mantle to a german Waffen SS*
    (*in the soviet pow camps the russians separate the members of the SS who have blood group tattoo,immediatly executed)

The germans is also shoot down the civilians for their animals if them exclaim.
The germans sometimes execute the russian pows,and also chop up the injured with axes under the siege.

Fritz Vogel officer of the Waffen SS is hide in a boarding school cover himself as a deaf and mute student.After the war he get going to Wien in foot,and send many packages for their rescuer to the school under many years.

#108

SS blood group tattoos (German: Blutgruppentätowierung)
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#109

Really sad, sad information about the Ostrom. Thanks, imi.

#110

The lost side isn’t have usually too happy stories :slight_smile:
the good question is what’s autocracy is better?

#111

German - Hungarian archives from the city siege and the fights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQHOMEMqlZI

#112

Nice to see the “Püppchen” rocket launcher in action at 1:27.

#113

Looked like a Stielgranate 41 being fired from a Pak 36 just before it as well.

#114

Thanks for the video, imi.

#115

Gee the Soviets got away with the worst atrocities after the war. Disgusting.

#116

The Russian anger was understandable in partway, because the germans do horrific things sometimes in the occupied russian lands.
In the POW camps, they search for the members of the Waffen SS from their blood group tattoo and execute them all
The problem is the russians do their revenge on every country on civilians also, and they got away with without penalty
I have a very clever phrase, I think this is fit here :

“Always the winners write the history”

#117

Gulfview!
I have the map of Budapest from 1941
This map contain the old street names for the easier identify of the places
I think you appreciate this!
http://oi41.tinypic.com/34qpunm.jpg

#118

Sorry, I have to post 5 comments, to be allowed to send what I want, so… 5…

#119

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