Reenactment picture ?

[von thoma]

It's a reenactment picture, or it's real ?
What do you think ?
Thanks for your answers.

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Photo:http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php? ... ge__st__80

[Simon H]

Uncropped photo here:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4135/491 ... e96f_b.jpg

Reenacted picture.

[m14msgt]

nice pic

[von thoma]

Reenactment picture or true ? Hum....it smell to Box Cover for Tamiya.
Thanks.

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[history1]

How logical is it to wear your pistol under your water bottle in close combat, von Thoma? Why do they all have so clean uniforms and hands?
Reenactment for me.

[Simon H]

I am not even sure the Stielhandgranate is real...

[von thoma]

Your opinions on this photograph ?
Thanks

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[von thoma]

Nobody ?

[Max]

This site seems to claim that the picture is from Bundesarchive Photos 1933 - 1945.
but the decal edges are not the usual format
http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?p=115188#p115188

[Max]

Reenactment picture or true ? Hum....it smell to Box Cover for Tamiya.
Thanks.

Most sites seem to think it was taken at Stalingrad.
For example
https://www.vintag.es/2018/03/horrors-o ... hotos.html

Of course it would only take only one person to post a picture as genuine and most people will uncritically repost it as such.

[Max]

Reenactment picture or true ? Hum....it smell to Box Cover for Tamiya.
Thanks.

Good call Von Thoma
You are right.
It is a reenactment picture after all.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gdrecon/a ... 4659659371
It goes to show how easily miss-information can be perpetuated on the net.
Do a photo search for the image to see how many sites say the picture was taken at Stalingrad.

See also
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gdrecon/a ... 4659659371

[StigRoadie]

If most people cannot tell they are modern photos then the guys are doing something right.

[Max]

If most people cannot tell they are modern photos then the guys are doing something right.

All the more reason to check sources thoroughly.
You can often tell that a reference has come from a single source by the fact that the wording is identical over multiple sites.
I checked the first site with a variation in text [one that didn't mention Stalingrad] and got the real source.

[von thoma]

I see something strange in this photo, but I don't know exactly what it is....

Reenactment, or true ?

Thanks for your inputs

[Michael Kenny]

Of course it would only take only one person to post a picture as genuine and most people will uncritically repost it as such.

The soldier throwing the grenade is an extremely well-fed individual!

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