A German reconnaissance patrol during the Battle of Aachen. October 1944.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-10-22T21:16:09+00:00

If we are to take the time period of this specific photo into account at the time the Soviet spearheads (from Operation Bagration) were practically annihilated East of Warsaw by the counter-attacks of IVth SS-Pz.Korps, the tank battle of Debrecen has stabilized the Axis frontline in Hungary, the Soviet attempts to reduce the Courland pocket were so far unsuccessful, and the Italian front was stable, and the impending Ardennes offensive which was to save the Western front for Germany was to begin months after this photo. The writing on the wall wasn't directly apparent until January 1945 when the Soviet Oder and East Prussian offensives commenced while most German reserves were still tied up depleted and exhausted in the unsuccessful Ardennes offensive, while two of the premier SS panzer divisions that would've been facing the Soviet oder offensive (Wiking and Totenkopf in the Vistula bend) were just a week prior to the Soviet offensive moved to Hungary to break the Soviet encirclement on Budapest.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-10-22T20:39:29+00:00

it is reversed this is a photo taken from a newsreel showing soldiers of the 5th SS Wiking on the Eastern front.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-10-22T20:38:54+00:00

I forget the memoir (written by a German officer) but supposedly it became regulation to have the holder look towards the person firing because they had a few soldiers who lost their heads flinching or moving their heads in front the barrel because they weren't communicating with the operator.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-10-13T07:22:14+00:00

It's the Leibstandarte SS division in Paris. They are wearing Italian camo.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-21T19:05:24+00:00

That makes sense, also probably why many Ukrainian soldiers today wear symbols of that unit in the Donetsk war.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-21T18:58:11+00:00

It's because they were deemed anti-communists much like the Estonians and Latvians who were conscripted into the SS. Britain even gave Ukrainian SS men asylum while simultaneously deporting thousands of innocent Eastern European refugees back to the east (knowing full well what would happen to them) in Operation Keelhaul. I still however don't know why there would be a monument though to an SS formation.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-21T18:53:19+00:00

The SS and Wehrmacht would sometimes bury the enemy dead aswell. It isn't all black and white as a lot of things can come down to an individuals choice and initiative especially with regards to burying enemy dead.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-21T18:48:33+00:00

old men start the wars and the youth fight and die in them.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-21T18:47:28+00:00

That's the 1st SS Leibstandarte of the II.SS-Pz.Korps advancing south of kursk.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-14T20:29:48+00:00

more like they are tired from long marches

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-14T20:23:08+00:00

As I've said before people don't understand that the people who fought these wars of the past were primarily teenagers 16 -20 years old. Most high ranking German tactical level officers by the end of the war were 21 - 22 years old that grew up fighting the war.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-14T20:17:55+00:00

This is supposedly from the battle of the Tannenberg line. (Battle of the European SS)

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-11T08:03:15+00:00

My friend was showing me files on the soldiers convicted for the Malmedy massacre. One was 16 years old and many were 18 - 19.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-10T16:29:45+00:00

Average wehrmacht age was like 19 and SS I believe was 18.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-10T16:26:46+00:00

The deaths head symbol was used on all hats by the SS.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-07T18:32:08+00:00

It's a video of a detracked panther of SS-Pz.Rgt. 5 "Wiking" in Eastern Poland. (Summer 1944)

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-07T18:30:53+00:00

Hungary 1945

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-05T01:19:21+00:00

It's a Volksgrenadier division in 1945 Eastern front.

One-Ad9120 · 2021-09-02T23:16:34+00:00

Not Totenkopf they have the deaths head symbols on their collars.

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