A german field chaplain, watch the gothic cross on his cap just under the eagle. You can tell by the ribbons above his legt chest that he was awarded the War Merrit Cross 2nd class with Swords and the Russian Front Medal 1941/42, the so-called &quot;Frozen meat-medal&quot;.

German Field Chaplain

The coasts of France had been made allegedly impregnable by the germans: The ''Atlantikwall'' with pillboxes, barbed wire circuits, obstacles and minefields. But the walls' possibilities of resistance were limited, too long was the coasts the germans were forced to protect from an allied invasion. Another fact was the limited amount of battle-capable divisions the germans has based in the west. One whole division consisted of dyspeptics only, then there was the &quot;Ohren-Division&quot; (ear-division) consisting of hearing impaired and soldiers with other auricular ailments. With them a true mixture of jestingly called ''loot-germans'': armenians, azerbaijanian, turkestans and Volga-tartars, altogether 75000 men.

French beaches

A short break in the inferno: A hungarian woman provides a soldier of the Waffen-SS with hot food durimg the Battle of Budapest.