German infantrymen watch the Luftwaffe in the skies over Stalingrad,bombing a  Soviet building, softening up the path for these  troops to attack a command outpost of the Soviet 13th Guards Division.
1942 


Waiting to go

Sturmbannführer Hellmuth Schreiber (1917-2008)
Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel (1906-2000)
Obersturmbannführer Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny (1912-1985)

(last ranks are mentioned, by the time this photo was taken -summer 1943- all three were serving in SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Deutschland")