In this sepia photo, three Magyar soldiers and an air force officer hold a discussion in 1941 before the Axis conquest of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Battle of Kiev and Hungarian Officers, 1941

A German officer chats with Hungarian colleagues riding in a small Mercedes-Benz staff car on the Eastern front.

M-Benz Kübelwagen in the Hungarian Army

The driver does not seem to be overjoyed while local young ladies pile atop his Nimrod self-propelled gun. But the soldiers  alongside the girls are all asmile, as an old Romanesque style Catholic church gazes down from the background.