Men of the SS-Division "Totenkopf" with MP40s and winter camouflage during the encirclement in the Demyansk Pocket, south of Leningrad; 8 February, 1942.

Warm clad, well armed

Erwin Rommel and other officers at a weapons demonstration of the 8 cm Raketen-Vielfachwerfer (8 cm multiple rocket launcher), one week before D-Day where Sword Beach would be located; 30 May 1944. 

Rommel at a possible Invasion site

German Infantrymen approaching the Volga river on 23 August, 1942. The men are examining an empty Russian dugout, which was part of the cities outer defenses. During their drive east many Soviet troops evacuated their defensive positions in front of the Volga and withdrew into the city of Stalingrad.