Hungarian soldiers pose with a German self-propelled "Marder II" tank destroyer, somewhere on the Eastern Front.

Rear view of the weapon

Eastern War Theater, Soviet Union: Hungarian infantry advancing in a village on a country road; Summer, 1941

Hungarian Participation

Hungarian soldiers in front of a Royal Hungarian Army 40-mm Nimród self propelled anti-aircraft gun. It was primarily utilized against lightly armored vehicles and for air defense; 1942/43 photo.    

Don River Front, USSR.

Hungarian troops in the vicinity of a 39M Csaba armored car in Ukraine (1941)
Hungarian produced armored vehicle Csaba (pronounced Cha-bah) was an armored car, used by the Royal Hungarian Army during World War II. They were used as actual fighting vehicles, command cars and reconnaissance vehicles. The armament consisted of a 20 mm Solothurn anti-tank rifle and an 8 mm machine gun.

Augmentation to the war effort

Hungarian member of a tank crew posing by his tank; Eastern Front.

Waiting for the baptism of fire...

Hungarian soldiers are photographed at a Soviet T-28 medium tank, abandoned on the side of a road on the Eastern Front; 1941.

Abandoned enemy tank

Hungarian soldiers at a captured Soviet pillbox and a Maxim machine gun; Somewhere on the Eastern Front, 1941.

Captured fort with its weapon

Hungarian soldiers place a wounded man on a cart to be taken to the rear for treatment of his injuries; Soviet-German Front, 1942.

Wounded Hungarian soldier

Hungarian soldiers receive felt boots to help to cope with the cold weather on the Soviet-German Front; Winter 1942.

To prevent frost bite

Hungarian soldiers receive gift packets of alcohol and cigarettes, away from home, on the Eastern Front; Summer, 1942.

Morale booster gifts

A small group of Hungarian soldiers pose next to a Rába Botond (probably M38) all-terrain military truck, somewhere in the USSR; 1942.

Soldiers with a Rába Botond

Hungarian infantry somewhere on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Pause in combat activity

Hungarian soldiers follow a truck with the body of a deceased colleague before the burial ceremony on the Soviet-German (Eastern) Front; 1942.

Farewell to a fallen comrade

A Hungarian soldier stands on the road by a crashed Soviet I-16 (Ilyushin) fighter, somewhere in Russia; November 1941. 

Crashed enemy plane

Hungarian soldiers at the grave of sergeant (Őrmester) Istvan Kemeny in the village of Ternovoye, Ostrogozhsky district, Voronezh region; Russia, July 1942.

Grave of a fellow soldier

Hungarian soldiers near the 40-mm Nimród World War II Hungarian selfpropelled anti-aircraft tank, on the grounds of  Ferenc József infantry barracks on  Üllői út 133-135 in Budapest. Originally, it was intended to be used as an anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapon, but it proved to be ineffective against Soviet T-34 tanks.  In the background, behind the railway embankment, is the Church of the Holy Cross (Szent Kereszt-templom); 1942.

"Nimrod" selfpropelled gun

Hungarian soldiers eat from their mess-kit while sitting on the armor of a 40-mm ZSU 40M "Nimrod" self-propelled anti-aircraft gun; Eastern Front, 1942.

Grab a meal on top of an AA gun

A Hungarian soldier armed with a German MP-40 submachine gun poses for the camera in front of a bunker on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Left-handed soldier with a fur hat

A battery of Hungarian 105-mm light field howitzers fires at the Soviet troops somewhere on the Eastern Front; 1942.

A barrage on the enemy

A Soviet soldier performs a song to the delight of visiting Hungarian officers and fellow POWs in a prisoner of war camp on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Happy in Hungarian captivity

Hungarian soldiers carry a coffin with the body of a deceased comrade during a burial ceremony on the Soviet-German Front; 1942.

Farewell to a comrade in arms

A group photo of Hungarian servicemen celebrating Christmas on the Soviet-German Front. They stand in front of a 40-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun "Nimrod" (40M Nimród).

A drink and a tiny Christmas tree

Hungarian soldiers guard Soviet POWs on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Captured Soviet soldiers

Hungarian tank crews in practical training on the Pz. Kpfw. VI Tiger tank by members of the Schwere Panzer-Abteilung (German 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion). At the end of the training, ten Tiger tanks were transferred to the Hungarian army; Ukraine, May 1944.

Training on the Tiger

Hungarian motorcycle couriers or scouts somewhere on the eastern front near Kharkov in the winter of 1942 in a mask covering their faces due to the extreme cold

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