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.

Heavy MG crew knocked out

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

A group of heavy-armed Waffen-SS grenadiers. They are equipped with the special canvas ammo pouches for the long, bent magazines of the StG 44, additional MG ammo belts and stick grenades. France, December 1944.