A German officer and other soldiers, standing around an Sd.Kfz 253 tracked light armored vehicle, observe the battlefield near the road in the Novgorod area.
The SdKfz 253 leichter Gepanzerter Beobachtungskraftwagen (light armored observation car) was a German light observation vehicle that was used by artillery forward observers to accompany tank and mechanized infantry units. 


Observing the battlefield

Soviet officers inspecting a Destroyed Maus heavy tank. 1945

Destroyed Maus

Parade of the SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen". A half-track (Sd.Kfz. 7) of the Artillery Regiment passes through the town of Mostar, Croatia (Yugoslavia); July 8, 1943.
   The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht during World War II in Yugoslavia. 