Regent Horthy and his military staff considered the defense of Budapest suicidal for the grand city on the Danube. After his overthrow in October, 1944, the new Arrow-Cross regime of Szalasi agreed with Hitler's firm demand for the defense of the Hungarian capital. Here a Hungarian Honved unit is in the process of building the Attila defense line, probably in late October or early November of 1944.

BUDAPEST SIEGE: Building the Attila Line

Especially on the eastern Pest side, a well defined and prepared line of defense was established starting in the fall of 1944. Shown here is a Hungarian MG unit.

BUDAPEST SIEGE: MG on Attila Line

1st Lt. Boday-Csiszar Tibor, Royal Hungarian Army (Magyar Kiralyi Honvedseg) shown here somewhere on the Eastern Front. According to eyewitnesses, he was killed by a burst from a Russian submachine gun on February 1944, when he refused to surrender... He chose a hero's death over captivity in a Soviet labor camp for POWs. May he R.I.P. along with many other brave men.