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Battlefront and home front: Germany in the summer of 1941 – leadership, frontline life and the reality of war _de

Men of the advance detachment penetrate the Soviet-occupied village. Every house and every farmstead must be cleared of Soviet soldiers and snipers.
Prop. Company 637; Location: Gatnoye – Date: August 6, 1941
Scherl Picture Service
On the Soviet Front: Our medical soldiers march with the fighting troops to provide first aid to their wounded comrades on the spot. (Potschlowaj, Ukraine).
PK: Hähle, August 417815-41 

 

 

The population of Ukraine from the Poltava region in their national costume
September 1941

 

Colonel General Guderian at the command post of a Panzer regiment.
The general is constantly on the front line. Here he visits the command post of a Panzer regiment to verify the progress of the advance.
PK-Huschke-Scherl.
20.8.41 [issue date] “Fr” OKW

 

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