The woman was a russian partisan, sentenced to death and hung on the Lenin monument of Woronesh. The act was meant as determent but showed the brutalization of warfare on the eastern front in cruel way.

The gallows of Woronesh

When the german 46th Infantry Division vacated the town of Feodosia/Russia in December 1941 they were forced to leave their non-transportable heavy wounded behind. When the town was re-conquered on January 18th 1942 the Infantry-Regiment 105 found the wounded left comrades beneath the side-wall halfway hastily buried still in their bandages. They had been slain or killed by dropping them off the side-wall by the Red Army.

The slain of Feodosia

A pilot's fate: German fighter plane ME 109 and the killed pilot after the crash. Stolberg near Aachen/Germany, 1944.