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

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 28 Nov 2010 21:39

Generaloberst Eduard Dietl sleeping...

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 29 Nov 2010 07:36

The vanquished have that defeated look: German prisoner captured near Otterloo, Netherlands...

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Post by Svetlana Karlin » 29 Nov 2010 22:59

Eastern Front.

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Post by peeved » 08 Oct 2011 20:58

Gefreiter with Schützenschnur looking disapprovingly at the officer's shooting stance.

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 30 Sep 2012 17:54

The pressure of combat is shown on the faces of these young SS-Panzergrenadiers of 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich'. This Sd.Kfz. 251/1 advance through the soviet steppe in the southern Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk. July 1943...
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Post by BDV » 02 Oct 2012 14:59

Neither the Romanian POWs nor the Soviet guards look particularly well-rested or care-free/

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Post by stupidmop » 02 Oct 2012 21:02

Amazing photographs. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Johnbr » 29 Oct 2012 02:00

Unpublished German photographs of the war
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Post by peeved » 23 Jan 2013 11:01

Exhausted Kradmelder. Photos from exp. eBay.de auction http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0823732849 and http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 1034029110

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Post by peeved » 23 Jan 2013 14:21

Tired and dusty. Photo from exp. eBay.de auction http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0709973702

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Post by Wiking Ruf » 26 Jan 2013 03:53

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Otto Funk 12.SS-Pz.Div. "Hitlerjugend" June 1944 Normandy


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Left to right: Sepp Bund (KIA 26.06.1944 near Cheux), Klaus Schuh (KIA 26.06.1944 near Cheux) and Günther Hamel.

In the background Klaus Schuh´s ammo-carrier SS-Sturmmann Otto Funk. They were all born in 1926, both Bund and Schuh were killed in action on June 26 near Cheux. Funk is wounded the same day but will continue fight till the bitter end (May 8 1945). Photo taken at Ardenne Abbey, near caen at June 12th, 1944.

Otto Funk survived the war.

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SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf von Ribbentrop, 3. Kompanie, I./SS-PzRgt 12 in the sidecar and driving the motorcycle is SS-Obersturmbannführer Max Wünsche, Rgt. Komm. of SS-PzRgt 12, after visited the survivors of III Zug 15/25 in Rots, Normandy. 9 June 1944.
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Re: Faces Of War (Worn-Out, Tired, Stressed, Scared, etc.)

Post by Adibach » 16 Feb 2013 18:28

John G. wrote:I don't think this is the same guy....1st off the "younger" version is supposed to be France 1940 but he has a "Winter in Russia 1941/42 ribbon on his ribbon bar plus he's an NCO. The "older" view he's an "enlisted man"...(no NCO tresse). There is a resembleance, maybe they are brothers?
Don't mean to "nit pick"....
Agree with you John...it looks to me like there is over 20 years difference in age ,maybe its his son?
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Post by tigre » 30 Dec 2013 22:19

Hello to all :D; something more..................

Welish - Winter 1941/42.

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Post by tigre » 05 Jan 2014 19:26

Hello to all :D; something more.............

Resting in the position!

Source: on the picture.

Cheers. Raúl M 8-).
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Post by Larrister » 05 Jan 2014 21:25

A couple more.

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