Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and General Fritz Bayerlein (in staff car) confer with German troops in captured US M3 half-track, North Africa.  Date imprecise - but can be narrowed to the period between end-August 1942 (when Bayerlein moved to North Africa) and March 1943 (when Rommel left).  German SdKfz 251 in line following the M3.

Rommel and Bayerlein.

Adolf Kratz, Werner Schwalb and Johannes Wittinger were tried for the murder of August Plaszek.  Schwalb was sentenced to hang; Kratz received life imprisonment ( he was later returned to Germany after contracting tuberculosis); Wittinger was acquitted.

SENTENCED TO HANG

A German column advancing eastward toward Russia pauses for a rest break.  We all know what the future would hold for them.