29 Degrees Celsius below Zero (-20.2 degrees Fahrenheit): This motorbike with sidecar of an german Airforce-Unit needs a fire to get started. The horse-cart in the background does not know these kind of problems.

Moshaisk/Russia - Winter 1941

Soldiers of the 10th and 4th Mountain-Divsion fought side by side in the greater Caucasus mountain range. Here the men from Upper Bavaria, the Allgaeu and Swabia were in their element. up here thick armour and engines didn't mean nothing, up here one had to trust his own muscles and the undemanding mules.

Mountain troops in Russia

A german soldier is being promoted by his company-CO. although in the field, the act is celebrated. notice the flowers in the cartridges and the carbines 98k put together to a pyramid.