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.

BUDAPEST SIEGE:  Training Magyar Defenders

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

Well aware of the approach of Soviets forces, the Arrow-Cross wasted no time in propagandizing the public for the battles soon to come .  Here a group of local supporters display and admire one of their posters, which stresses continued Hungarian-German solidarity and military preparedness. (The posters do not show atrocities committed by some Arrow-Cross activists.)