Members of a Volksgrenadier-Division near Breslau/Lower Silesia. Except for their means of transportation these soldiers are well equipped with Panzerfausts and assault guns, also mind their reversible tan-patterned camo jackets.

Tank hunters on bikes II

Hitler youth members on their way to the front supposed to stall the Red Army.

Tank hunters on bikes

...were these Hitlerjugend boys according to Dr. Joseph Goebbels trying to conventionalize the HJ deployment as a heroic epic.