A small group of Magyar soldiers on leave to home enjoy a few beers in the town of Vörösvár in Hungary during WW2.

Hungarian Soldiers on Leave

During the summer of 1944, a few Tiger panzers were made available to the Second Armored Division fighting in Galicia. The German markings and numbering was kept. Note the pointed Honved caps on two of the crew members.

Tiger Tank in Hungarian Service, 1944

	As the commander of the 3rd Corps of the Hungarian Second Army on the Voronezh front, General Stomm was able to organize an orderly withdrawal of his troops during January, 1943, while providing rear-guard protection to the German 2nd Army. 

	The units under his command were the last to retreat from the Don river. But when the withdrawal of large Hungarian  contingents was blocked by a regional German commander, Stomm formally dissolved his formations and allowed them to successfully withdraw as small groups.

	His legs froze and had to be amputated when he became a POW in 1943. He and Hungarian communist exile Rákosi, the latter recruiting for the Soviet side, had a brief argument there, for which  now communist boss Rákosi came close to being able to send the hobbling general to the gallows, after the latter's return to Hungary. Following the Soviet era, Stomm was fully rehabilitated.
