June 22, 1941 at dawn (it was actually a sunday morning): German troops await the order to launch Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union.

June 22, 1941

Totenkopf soldiers on the attack in mid 1942.By this time around  one third of the division's troops were underweight,weak and listless due to intense cold and inadequate shelter.(rudeerude)

On the attack

A motorbike of the Swabian 205th Infanterie-Division got stuck on a muddy Russian roadway. Comrades stopped by to help releasing the bike by using a log.