With photos like these the German population should be shown that things are just fine on the eastern front. German soldiers during an improvisational but convinient christmas celebration including tree and gifts.

Christmas on the eastern front

German soldier fixed themselves these huge shoes of straw for protection from the cold. The boots were worn over the regular high leather boots. Of course they were totally unusable for combat action.

Mighty shoes of straw

A German column crosses a river on a makeshift bridge in Russia. It was a curse for the German troops that most of the russian rivers ran crosswise to the direction of advance.