During December, 1944, Hungarian Minister of Defense Beregfy is photographed at the  first ring of the defensive  &quot;Attila line&quot; built around Budapest. This section  was held by the 22nd Waffen SS Division. On Beregfy's right stands  SS officer Karl-Heinz Keitel,  the eldest son of  Field-Marshall Keitel, who later would be wounded and evacuated by air from the city.

BUDAPEST SIEGE: General Beregfy at the Attila Line

Hungarian Stukas

General Beregfy is shown here inspecting  the training of  Hungarian soldiers in the use of the German Panzerfaust (bazooka) anti-tank weapon.  He also facilitated the integration of  many new Hungarian recruits and transfers into the German military structure,  most of all by the establishment of the 25th SS Grenadier Division &quot;Hunyadi,&quot; based on the original Hungarian 13th Light Division, which eventually reached a strength of 20,000 soldiers.