An advance party of the 3rd Panzer-Division south of Brest-Litowsk on June 22nd 1941. Within eight weeks Hitler wanted to reach the goal of the campaign the line of Astrachan-Archangelsk.

Into Russia! June 22nd 1941

Photo of battles in Soviet land. (caption and title changed)

Fire bomb

Russian farmers are allocated farmland by the german army in the Kursk-Orel area. The german soldier is carrying a looted russian SVT 40 Tokarew rifle. An excellent semi automatic rifle oftenly used by snipers - russian and german.