Faces Of War (Worn-Out, Tired, Stressed, Scared, etc.)

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Post by yaroslav » 01 Nov 2009, 14:55

German POWs in Berlin - 1945.
So, they could be Hitler's extra resources.

GLANCE TO THE PAST.

Source: From the WW2 (1941 - 1045) encyclopedia book, M.Kozlov 1985.
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Post by yaroslav » 01 Nov 2009, 15:01

Russia. Eastern front.

They are smiling, and expecting to get Moscow.
At the fist year of Barbarosa.

German solders liked to make and store such photos, but when they became to be POWs these photos condemned them to death.

Source: scanned from the WW2 (1941 - 1045) encyclopedia book, M.Kozlov 1985.
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Post by yaroslav » 01 Nov 2009, 15:06

Another smiling faces.
Hanged russian nurse.

He is expecting for the fast victory and return to home where he will show this photo to his mother.

Source: scanned from the WW2 (1941 - 1045) encyclopedia book, M.Kozlov 1985.
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Post by yaroslav » 01 Nov 2009, 15:12

Asian exotic.
After Stalingrad battle.

Source: scanned from the WW2 (1941 - 1045) encyclopedia book, M.Kozlov 1985.
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Post by yaroslav » 01 Nov 2009, 15:17

German POWs on march afer Berlin battle.
They seem to have not brilliant future in the russian captivity.

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Post by yaroslav » 01 Nov 2009, 15:24

Russian tanks in Berlin.

About what is thinking this old solder? He could remember glorious times when great parades took place here.

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 02 Nov 2009, 08:05

Nice pictures you have, Yaroslav. Thank you for sharing! :)

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Post by yaroslav » 03 Nov 2009, 13:32

Source: Archives of Ministry of Defence, Russian Federation.

Russian POWs, captured by Wermaht solders
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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 06 Nov 2009, 20:37

Erich von Manstein in the fourth years of the war...

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Post by bobschleyer » 06 Nov 2009, 22:57

Stalingrad machine gunner

Source: "Inside Hitler's Germany - Life Under the Third Reich" by Hughes and Mann

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 19 Nov 2009, 20:22

A tank-driver Gefreiter, exhausted by the panzers' "drive to the sea" through France in May 1940, enjoys a cigarette by his tank. He has not opted to wear his M1935 feldgrau field greatcoat over his M1934 special tank-crew uniform to protect it from the grim of battle. Note the drivers' goggles, civilian shirt and M1936 pullover...

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 19 Nov 2009, 21:14

Tenses really shows up from this DAK armoured engineer lines up for the attack to the enemy defense...

Source : Book "The German Army 1939-45 (2) : North" by Nigel Thomas & Stephen Andrew
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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 19 Nov 2009, 21:55

Tunisia, April 1943. Mechanized infantrymen from 15th Panzer Division, probably from the 115th Mechanised Regiment, taken prisoner at the Battle of Gabes Gap. Their expressions at the prospect of captivity vary from relief (third left), through trepidation (right) to dejection (second left)!

Source : Book "The German Army 1939-45 (2) North Africa and Balkans" by Nigel Thomas & Stephen Andrew
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Post by Larrister » 20 Nov 2009, 01:35

War aged young soldiers rapidly.
Here's a photo from an Inf. Rgt. 19 album. Left photo France 1940, right photo Russia 3 years later.

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Post by Larrister » 20 Nov 2009, 01:39

From the same album, two sullen and weary soldiers.
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