Soldiers of 39th Panzerkorps evacuating villages near Gumbinnen/East Prussia, autumn 1944.

East Prussia 1944

German soldiers of the eastern front on leave at the Breslau station, summer 1944. The board says: &quot;No passage through town without document of delousing&quot;

On leave

Obersturmfuhrer Karl-Hans Scheu SS Reconnaissance Battalion 6 a veteran of many long range patrols behind Soviet lines in the wilderness of Karelia enjoys a cigarette after returning from one such operation in 1943.