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Events on Sunday 19 March 1944 2
1944Germany occupies HungaryJews of Hungary deported to AuschwitzGermany occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944. Within weeks, 437,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in the largest and most rapid deportation of the Holocaust.
1944Germany occupies HungaryOperation MargaretheGerman forces occupied Hungary to stop it from making a separate peace with the Allies. Regent Miklós Horthy stayed in office, but a pro-German government was installed. The occupation made possible the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews.