 In the meantime, the Partisan 1st Brigade, from the 6th "Lika" Partisan Division, arrived after a twelve-mile (nineteen-kilometer) forced march and attacked the Waffen-SS paratroopers, inflicting heavy casualties.In October 1944, Hitler sent Skorzeny to Hungary after receiving word that the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating with the Red Army.The surrender of Hungary would have cut off the million German troops still fighting in the Balkan peninsula.