The German Foreign Minister confers with Prime Minister Bardossy  of Hungary at Budapest in late 1942. Ribbentrop presented Hitler's "request" for a large Hungarian army to be deployed on the Eastern front.

Ribbentrop and Bárdossy Talks, Budapest, 1942

The Commander of the Hungarian Second Army deployed on the Don river front was not afraid to express himself either to subordinates or to allies, as he is doing in this case.