Drill at the Infantry School in Döberitz in 1938. The soldier takes cover with bayonet planted on his carbine 98k. To the right you can see Stielhandgranaten as blanks.

Infantry School Döberitz 1938

Two soldiers of the Waffen-SS in bivac. The left one has pulled over his oakleaf pattern tent piece and his carbine K98 leant at the barn's wall. The right soldier is wearing a peadot pattern uniform and is armed with a Sturmgewehr 44.

Waffen-SS trooper with StG 44

The crew of a french bunker of the Maginot Line surrenders to german troops in June 1940. The face of the french soldier in the center says it all. The french army was not a well motivated one, no comparisson to their fathers in 1914-1918. The german soldier on the right is wearing cotton bags to stash handgrenades.