Bombing of Kassa
On 26 June 1941, four days after Germany attacked the Soviet Union in violation of the Molotov–Ribbentrop non-aggression treaty as a part of Operation Barbarossa, three unidentified planes bombed the city, killing and wounding over a dozen people and causing minor material damage.[1] Hours after the attack, the Hungarian cabinet "passed a resolution calling for the declaration of the existence of a state of war between Hungary and the USSR.Captain Ádám Krúdy, the commander of the Kassa military airfield, identified the attackers as German Heinkel He 111 bombers in his official report but was ordered to keep silent about it."[2] During the Nuremberg trials, the USSR brought forth a statement allegedly taken from Hungarian Major General István Újszászy.This theory was introduced because he found that, following the Kassa bombings, certain officers behaved suspiciously, not due to concrete evidence.