Picture taken by Hans Eckle, and showing Leutnant Klaus Vogt's 9. Kompanie from Oberst Willi Winzer's Inf.Rgt.578 inside the grounds of the Tractor Factory. A group of assault guns move up on the left. In the rear is the factory's main gate and technical buildings. The building on the right is a workhall containing forges and other stamping machinery. 15 October 1942. — in Stalingrad, Volgograd.



Stalingrad

American soldiers look on as a line of German prisoners is led down to the Rhine river on March 26, 1945.

POWs march

Veteran landsers.

Perhaps they have survived a hundred deadly skirmishes and larger battles. Wonder if they had any hearing left? Their tinnitus must have been unbearable.