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Offline Leopardi

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16335 on: 28-01-2019, 13:01:02 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16336 on: 28-01-2019, 19:01:55 »
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SS soldiers searching a village on Eastern Front, two of them armed with Erma EMP-35's. For some reason civilian carries a box with ammo belt for Maxin MG. USSR, 1941.
On a next photo (the most famous) you see him dead.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16337 on: 28-01-2019, 20:01:35 »
Oh, you're right I've never connected this two photos, but now that I double checked I noticed that ammo box near the corpse. Tbh that photo looks really grim, there's nothing that 100% gives away what's gonna happen but something in this scene makes it look that it's gonna be bad...



SS Gebirgsjager from Prinz Eugen Division with MP-35

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16338 on: 29-01-2019, 00:01:17 »


Earlier photo too, man with white hat in center.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16339 on: 29-01-2019, 02:01:47 »


Earlier photo too, man with white hat in center.

Did they find them with a cache of weapons for partisans?

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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16341 on: 29-01-2019, 09:01:54 »


Destroyed Churchill Crocodile. Schilber, Limburg 1945

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16342 on: 29-01-2019, 11:01:44 »


Polish sailors guarding officers from surrendered U-249, May 1945. Both sailors armed with Lanchester sub-machine guns, note the mag pouches for insanely long 50 round magazines.


And regardind the photo oddysey of a man in white hat:

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That's probably the last photo of him alive

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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16346 on: 30-01-2019, 19:01:14 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16347 on: 30-01-2019, 20:01:12 »
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That's probably the last photo of him alive
We will certainly never know what really happened



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16348 on: 30-01-2019, 22:01:12 »
Judging by that last photo, the German soldier behind/left is shouldering his gun.  Likely told him to pick the things up and start walking back to town (to keep things calm and orderly), and shot him along the way.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16349 on: 31-01-2019, 00:01:00 »
Not to be morbid, but where would one find the final picture?  I am curious as Seth or someone said that was the more 'famous' picture, but I don't recall having seen it. Is the subject of the man in the white hat well known?
« Last Edit: 31-01-2019, 00:01:11 by Wilhelm »