]The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II by Krisztián Unguáry pxxiii. Re: Himmler prohibiting destruction of the Budapest ghetto. "...two days before the
advancing Russians reached the ghetto, there was a plan by some SS and Arrow Cross units to invade the ghetto and massacre its inhabitants. A German major-general stopped this, threatening its eventual perpetrators with arrest."
What SS units were they?
Who was the German General?
Budapest 1944 : German General preventing pogrom?
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Hello Rob, how are you doing?Rob - WSSOB wrote:]The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II by Krisztián Unguáry pxxiii. Re: Himmler prohibiting destruction of the Budapest ghetto. "...two days before the
advancing Russians reached the ghetto, there was a plan by some SS and Arrow Cross units to invade the ghetto and massacre its inhabitants. A German major-general stopped this, threatening its eventual perpetrators with arrest."
What SS units were they?
Who was the German General?
It was the Wehrmacht general-major Gerhard Schmidhuber of the 13th Panzerdivision, killed later in action, in January 1945.
http://ww.powells.com/review/2005_08_18.htmlUngvary claims that an SS-Arrow Cross plan for the last-minute extermination of all the inhabitants of the Big Ghetto was thwarted by the quick action of a renegade Arrow Cross officer and the Wehrmacht General Gerhard Schmidhuber ...
And now another question: who was the Hungarian officer?
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Hi Yerbamatt, I am welll!
I have no idea who the Arrow Cross officer was. That's very intesting about Wehrmacht general-major Gerhard Schmidhuber's role in stopping the massacre. On Jan 3, 1945 Budapest garrison commander SS-Gruppenfuhrer Karl von Pfeffer-Wildenbruch appointed a Nazi political officer onto Schmidhuber's divisional staff, supposedly because P-W didn't consider Schmidhuber politically reliable. I wonder if P-W was reacting to Schmidhuber's actions vis-a-vis the Budapest Jews.
Thanks for your response!
I have no idea who the Arrow Cross officer was. That's very intesting about Wehrmacht general-major Gerhard Schmidhuber's role in stopping the massacre. On Jan 3, 1945 Budapest garrison commander SS-Gruppenfuhrer Karl von Pfeffer-Wildenbruch appointed a Nazi political officer onto Schmidhuber's divisional staff, supposedly because P-W didn't consider Schmidhuber politically reliable. I wonder if P-W was reacting to Schmidhuber's actions vis-a-vis the Budapest Jews.
Thanks for your response!
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Re: Budapest 1944 : German General preventing pogrom?
His name was Szalai Pál (also Szalay in certain sources) a police liaison officer of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party.
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