It is related that the fighters of a German armored brigade that had run out of fuel, as well as viable battlefields, surrounded themselves with a protective mine field, and that the Russians, who had no time to waste, merely laid another ring of mines around them and rushed off through the Hungarian woods, and, finally, that a Hungarian military squad spent some six months deciphering and cleaning the mine fields, thus ultimately liberating the obstinate brigade that remained inaccessible for years after the war ended. The twofold ring of starvation was so difficult to break because the secret of its layout perished together with the defeated and the victorious.