German Infantry

[Gunner]

What's with the straps around the helmets I wonder?

 

[Louis]

What's with the straps around the helmets I wonder?

Maybe to facilitate camouflage?

 

[Gunner]

Looks right.
I never noticed it before.

 

[Louis]

Writing letters to home, 1940, France.

 

[Louis]

German soldiers with a various of M1 Garand rifles and Thompson machine guns captured, during the Battle of Anzio.

 

[Louis]

- Look at the camera for the photo!! ... ("Cafe de Flore" during the battle for the Liberation of Paris, Aug. 1944.)

 

[Gunner]

 

[Nathangun]

Oh fixed bayonets, nasty.

 

[Rico]

Would be 1942 I think in opening of Fall Blau to open way to Caucasus.

 

[Louis]

Stalingrad battle scene.

 

[Louis]

Eastern Front, 1943: A Russian peasant boy cleans the boots of a wounded German soldier.

 

[JP48]

Any guess on the age of those wounded soldiers? Look pretty young.

 

[Louis]

Any guess on the age of those wounded soldiers? Look pretty young.

yep, that's what I thought when I saw the image for the first time. I do not believe that they exceed 20 years. ¿?

 

[Nathangun]

Any guess on the age of those wounded soldiers? Look pretty young.

I'd put them at 14-15 years.

 

[Louis]

Soldier from the 10th Regiment of the SS Totenkopf on guard on the roof of the Royal Castle in Krakow.

 

[Louis]

Two german soldiers speaking with swiss border guards, 1944.

 

[Louis]

Soldier smile on Victory Parade in Berlin, 1940.

 

[Nort]

 

[Louis]

Take cover from shelling in a stream bed near Anzio, 1944.

 

[Louis]

German soldiers joking. Unknown location and date.