Combined point of POWs in Berlin,  April, 1945. The last reserves of agonizing Reich.

Defenders of Berlin. 

Infrared, circa 1944: One of the few SdKfz.251/20 "Uhu" equipped with the "Biwa" infrared gear for the vehicle driver and MG42 gunner. Reported range of the infrared gear was 500+ meters. But with the muzzle flash from the MG42 as intense as what it was, I wonder how useful the whole contraption could ever be? The ability to see in the dark is cancelled out when you are blinded by your own muzzle flash!
(fb/Thomas Laemlein)

Nightvision

German Order Police (note the "eagle's head" long police bayonet worn by the man in the foreground) descend to the basement in search of hidden valuables, Jewish Ghetto, (Lodz, Poland ?) 1940.  This sort of activity was typical of early German operations in newly-formed Jewish ghettos in Poland.  Later, the Jews would have much worse to put up with ... JR.