Bundeswehr ceremony of taking the Oath to Hitler in person, 1934.  As oaths go, the validity of this one in legal and/or moral terms was distinctly questionable.  However, many German soldiers and commanders, over the next decade or so, thought otherwise ... Best regards, JR.

Taking the Oath.

German soldiers move a horse-drawn vehicle over a corduroy road while crossing a wetland area, in October 1941, near Salla on Kola Peninsula, a Soviet-occupied region in northeast Finland. 

In northeast Finland

German infantrymen take cover in a house in southern Italy, on February 6, 1944, awaiting the word to attack after Stukas had done their work. 