Hungarian artillery is awaiting the coming Soviet offensive during the siege of Budapest, winter 1944-1945. The fighting's  ferocity is compared by some observes to that of the Battle of Stalingrad.

Defending Budapest, 1944

The Hungarian capital suffered immensly during the war, enduring a three-month siege, with much of the city destroyed, including the bridges over the Danube river.

Devastated Budapest, Hungary, 1945

1944 Oct.16. 
(Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-680-8283A-13A)