Many residents of Budapest volunteered to fight, including these two railway workers, wearing their black service uniforms, moving a heavy machine gun into position.

BUDAPEST SIEGE: Civilian Defenders Prepare

The dwindiling German and Hungarian military pressed into service all available units, including these Hungarian gendarmes ordered to fight in these small and outdated Ansaldo tankettes.

BUDAPEST SIEGE: Ansaldo Tankettes

War production continued during the siege, Nov. 1944-Feb. 1945, mainly on Csepel (Che-pel) island, at the huge Weiss-Manfred  manufacturing complex. Here a worker is grinding a crankshaft for a military engine. Of course, their production figures paled by comparison to Russian, US, British, and German quantities.