A German noncom posing with a Gnôme et Rhône AX2 motorcycle, surrounded by a group of Wehrmacht soldiers in a relaxed mood in the Soviet countryside, in the Belgorod region.


Motorcycle rider

Masrhall Ivan Stepanovich Konev
He was one of Stalin's favourite generals and one of the few senior commanders whom even Stalin admired for his ruthlessness. Konev, according to Beria's son, had "wicked little eyes, a shaven head that looked like a pumpkin and an expression full of self-conceit."
According to Milovan Djilas, Konev openly boasted of his killing of thousands of German prisoners of war:"The cavallary finally finished them off. 'We let the Cosaks cut up as long as they wished. They even hacked off the hands of those who raised them to surrender' the Marshal recounted with a smile." 

I.S. Konev

Machine-gun crew of the German "Grossdeutschland Division".