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Article: Cemetery dedicated for German, Hungarian World War II soldiers

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Dateline: BUDAORS, Hungary A military cemetery for almost 14,000 German and Hungarian soldiers killed during World War II was dedicated Saturday in this town on the southern outskirts of Budapest.

The cemetery holds the remains of 13,192 German and 567 Hungarian soldiers, the majority of whom died in February 1945, when they broke out of Buda Castle in Budapest after being surrounded by Soviet forces,

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