Rare Eastern Front pics (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

Came across these pics on twitter, thought the Eastern Front fans among us may like them;

http://1infanteriedivision.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/ww2-images-of-the-eastern-front-194142-part-iv/

Rob

 

[Mitch]

Rob..

Excellent thread and some really interesting pics. I heard earleir in the week a russian soldier who had just died had stashed away several hundered pictures taken from germans after the defeat in Stalingrad. some taken by combat photographers. I would expect them to either be placed into a museum or, bought privately and made into a pictoral book sometime
Mitch

QUOTE=Rob;475261]Came across these pics on twitter, thought the Eastern Front fans among us may like them;

http://1infanteriedivision.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/ww2-images-of-the-eastern-front-194142-part-iv/

Rob[/QUOTE]

 

[Rob]

Rob..

Excellent thread and some really interesting pics. I heard earleir in the week a russian soldier who had just died had stashed away several hundered pictures taken from germans after the defeat in Stalingrad. some taken by combat photographers. I would expect them to either be placed into a museum or, bought privately and made into a pictoral book sometime
Mitch

QUOTE=Rob;475261]Came across these pics on twitter, thought the Eastern Front fans among us may like them;

http://1infanteriedivision.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/ww2-images-of-the-eastern-front-194142-part-iv/

Rob

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Mitch,

They are interesting aren't they, showing both the grim reality and the rememberance of fallen comrades, I really like them. Couple of pretty gruesome shots in their too, there is one of a dead soldier somehow hanging off the back of a tank, but I really can't see what he's attached to, its almost as if he were hovering, poor guy.

Rob

 

[Mitch]

I like pictures like this taken by soldiers in the field and not done for the propaganda newsreels which show the glory. I have managed to get a few good collections which show the darker side of war. I agree that guy on the back of the tank or, half a guy looks weird but, thats what happened.

I have pictures of frozen troops who died while they were eating and are frozen solid in that position really creepy but, interesting to begin to try and realise what these troops went through and the temperatures they endured. Must really have been a nightmare fighting the enemy and, the climate
Mitch