While their families are on their way to the west, fleeing with the great masses of refugees, the Volkssturm soldiers have burrowed in the soil of their Silesian homeland to defend it against the Soviets. They make a hopeless attempt to stop the Red Army in their advance. German-Soviet Front in Silesia, now Poland; February 1945.

Defensive battle in Silesia

German Soldier with his wife and child after arriving at the american lines near the Czech Border, May 1945

German soldier and family, 

 Surrender of Red Army soldiers. Forground: a German tank soldier with Luger Parabellum 1908 pistol; maybe taken from one of the prisioners; Summer of 1941.
   