The troops expelled from the Eastern Front in World War II could not defend themselves or form a new front in the open, snow-covered terrain. Soon, both the German and the poorly equipped Hungarian armies collapsed and were killed or froze to death as they retreated from Stalingrad in the extreme cold. The bodies of the retreating soldiers were buried in the snow around the Don River. Long lines of retreating soldiers, frozen soldiers, barely soldiers wandered, only instinct kept their feet moving. But the soldiers had no weapons in their hands, and the strain was too much, and the minus 40 degrees Celsius paralyzed their brains and bodies.
On January 12, 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II, the Hungarian army suffered the catastrophe of the Don River. The Hungarian army suffered tens of thousands of casualties in a few days. About 100 soldiers from Hordemezebershahrie drowned in the Don River. The Soviet troops were on the offensive from the Stalingrad offensive, and fighting broke out in the extreme cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius from the Uribi bridgehead on the Don River on January 12, 1943. The Soviets blocked supply lines, cut off relief to the Germans in the Stalingrad offensive, and acquired a network of rail lines. As the Hungarian army retreated from Stalingrad due to extreme cold, lack of equipment, and food supplies, the toll was very disastrous. The loss of life of the Hungarian army was estimated to be about 120,000 to 130,000 out of about 250,000 transported Hungarian soldiers. About 50,000 were killed in action, about 50,000 were wounded in action, and about 28,000 were taken prisoner. About 70% of the military equipment and all heavy weapons were destroyed. About 100 Hungarian soldiers fell into the Don River and drowned.
During the Second World War, the Hungarian army explicitly entered the war against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. in the summer of 1941, Hungary declared war against the Soviet Union. Hungarian troops initially took part in the fighting on the Eastern Front to a limited extent and to a greater extent. Hungary, under pressure and demand from Nazi Germany, eventually had some 200,000 or more Hungarian troops transferred to the Eastern Front by June 1942. The Hungarian troops belonging to the German army were first transported by rail, and after walking hundreds of kilometers, they arrived at the area around the Don River. There, exhausted Hungarian soldiers were immediately sent into battle. The Hungarian soldiers were forced to defend the area around the Don River for about 200 kilometers.
The Soviets, who had been on the offensive since the Stalingrad offensive, broke out into battle in the extreme cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius from the Uribi bridgehead on the Don River on January 12, 1943. The Soviets blocked supply lines, cut off relief to the Germans in the Stalingrad offensive, and acquired a network of rail lines. As the Hungarian army retreated from Stalingrad due to extreme cold, lack of equipment, and food supplies, the toll was very disastrous. The loss of life of the Hungarian army was estimated to be about 120,000 to 130,000 out of about 250,000 transported Hungarian soldiers. About 50,000 were killed in action, about 50,000 were wounded in action, and about 28,000 were taken prisoner. About 70% of the military equipment and all heavy weapons were destroyed. About 100 Hungarian soldiers fell into the Don River and drowned.
One of the direct causes of the loss of the independent Hungarian state was attributed to the loss of a large part of the Hungarian army due to the catastrophe of the Don River. Most tragically, Hungary's independence was prevented militarily, economically, and strategically by both Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union - the inhumane dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin. Hungary was able to regain its national sovereignty, which it lost from the Soviet Union in March 1944, in October 1989, after the Soviet dictatorship collapsed.
