Gdynia, modern polish seaport just before second world war. MS Pilsudski polish ocean liner (14,287 gross register tonnage, 796 passenger seats in III classes). Ship was used during wartime as a transport unit by Poles and Britons. Sank 26.11.1939 in way from Newcastle, near Flamborough cape. Probably because of Nazi German mines. Name Piłsudski came from the name marshal of Poland, great Chief of State: Joseph Pilsudski (1867-1935)  who destroyed Soviet Red Army in 1920 war.

MS Pilsudski in Gdynia, Poland.

The Tartar lady from the town of Bakhchisaray on the crimea peninsula. Photo taken by a german soldier in 1942. He wrote to this photo: &quot;These women were gorgeous and proud and many german soldiers trying to draw nearer, they spit on the boots.

Tartar Lady from Bakhchisaray/Crimea, 1942

The farewell to the finnish battlegrounds. Sunset photographed by a german mountain trooper before his unit was transferred back to Germany the next morning, 1944.