Soviet soldiers with the corpse of Adolf Hitler...at least that's what they thought...or wanted the world to think...or were made to think...Whatever, it wasn't Hitler. Berlin, 1945

Dead Hitler

Waffen-SS NCO (?Totenkopf) with very unhappy-looking Soviet PoW, Russia, unknown date and location.  The prisoner is wearing Soviet-pattern body armour similar to that shown in a previous post.  Again, the breastplate has a cutoff over the right shoulder, presumably, to facilitate use of rifles and submachine guns.  Still looks impractical for anyone other than a machine gunner operating from a fixed position.  Best regards, JR.

Soviet body armour.

A kv-1 nicknamed merciless with its commander Lt. Pavel Khoroshilov loading ammunition the white stars represents 12 tank kills and the circles and triangles represents other kill from self propelled guns, trucks and armored vehicles 