German infantry at rest during the assault in the vicinity of the port city of Sebastopol, in the Crimea on the Black Sea, USSR; Autumn of 1941.

Taking a rest

A German soldier of the 855th Infantry Regiment, 344th Infantry Division, in a street outpost, in the south-western Vichy-France seaside city of Biarritz, 1943.


Half visible, half hidden

German troops occupy muddy trenches on the Saar Front (bordering France in the south-west corner of Germany) in anticipation of Patton’s attacks; December 1944. 