26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian) [SEP] dissolved or abolished
face of the advancing Soviet Red Army, it surrendered to the United States Army in Austria in May 1945.
History.
The division was authorised in November 1944, following the German overthrow of the Hungarian regime of Miklós Horthy, and was designated the 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian) (26. "Waffen" Grenadier Division der SS (ungarische Nr.2.)) on 27 December 1944. By the time it was given this designation, it had reached a strength of 8,000, comprising 3,000
26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian)
The 26th "Waffen" Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian) was a short-lived infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Established in November 1944 following the German overthrow of the Hungarian regime of Miklós Horthy, it was never properly formed, trained, or equipped, and after being evacuated from its training camp in the