English Translation

15 - 2 - 4./ On the Hungarian side, the bad equipment and poor armament will be brought into the meeting as a cause of failure. It is clear that units without shoes will be sent into the fight, that the equipment is very defective, especially in heavy weapons, that troop parts have not received pay or branded goods for months. Parts of the eastern 6th Army deployed by Budapest also find that they are no longer fully capable of fighting and partly demoralized, whereas the attitude and fighting power of the deployed SS units, German tank forces as well as the newly added 27l. Volksgrenadierdivision is outstanding. The force ratio of the German to the Russian units in the area of Budapest is given by 1 : 5 to 1 : 6. Thus, about 5 600 enemy tanks are compared with 80-100 own tanks. The superiority of the own armor-piercing melee weapons / tank fist and tank scare/ is determined by all places, in particular by the units in operation. The artillery use of the Russians is not yet significant, as it seems that the rearing, especially heavy weapons, is causing difficulties. The German fighter planes /Major Rudl with his squadron / relieve their own operating units far and far and wide and are especially heavy on enemy tanks. It is also to the use of this combat squadron to thank that the Russians cannot make closed attacks on the city territory and that the air activity in the combat area is therefore unimportant. The Russian infantry is supposed to be quite shaky in the masses./Youth and aged/. The success of the Russian is due above all to his repeatedly applied tactics of focusing on the massaging of tanks and the use of elite troops. For example, when the attacks to the east of Budapest were stalled, units of the Carpathian passports were drawn after. The Romanian troops are deployed unsparingly and the united l2 divisions are constantly being filled up.