Rshew/Russia 1943: After only a couple of days of hard fighting the german cemetery next to the local Army Surgical Hospital is blotched with graves.

German cemetery of Rshew

A group of captured soldiers of the Waffen-SS are interrogated by an American soldier. The SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) is talking energetically at the G.I. while the high-decorated Rottenführer (Corporal) seems to be amused by the situation.

Captured Waffen-SS members

This photo shows a young rifleman of a waffen-ss unit. watch the carbine K98 on his back and the early palmtree camouflage-pattern of the soldiers smock.