The German front soldier of 1943. The look of the bright successful Landser of the Blitzkrieg campaigns is gone for good. The faces are marked of the fierce fightings on the eastern front, the daily routines horror and the will to persevere and spare this fate to the homeland.

German soldier of 1943

«One of the last places where Germans capitulated was Dunkerque. The column of the German POWs crosses the town on the way to Belgium. The French youth plays freedom fighters and points their handmade weapons at the POW column. On the right a hanged doll symbolizes the end of Nazism.»<br>
Source: book "Krigsbilleder vi ikke så", Copenhagen 1945.

Germans capitulation in Dunkerque, 1945

Somewhere at the road of advance to Poltava/Central Ukraine. Three members of a german heavy MG crew were killed in action. German casualties in the first months of Operation Barbarossa exceeded the apprehensions. The losses of the Heer only in October of 1941: 25717 men and officers KIA, 91606 WIA, 4058 MIA.