Panzergrenadiers from Kampfgruppe (Battle Group) Hansen (one of the three large Kampfgruppe of the Leibstandarte Division) take a cigarette break. Such a state was the norm during combat operations. - On December 18, 1944, very early in the morning, the American "14th Cavalry Group" had gotten into an ambush of the German "Kampfgruppe Hansen" on the road between Poteau and Recht, about 7-8 miles south of Malmedy, Belgium. 


Cigarette break after combat

German soldier prepares the road signs in a undetermined
 hungarian place (probably the village of Tarján nothwest to Budapest)  to the incoming german and hungarian troops from the breakout of Budapest  
Much less soldier arrived as the Germans were thought after 14th of february 1945



Waiting

German Soldier with his wife and child after arriving at the american lines near the Czech Border, May 1945