Picture of the Day

[nysä]

Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer 1944

[nysä]

Not to be morbid, but where would one find the final picture?

https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/1018/

[Leopardi]

[Kasztelan]

Canadian sniper in Italy, using combo of P14 with Warner & Swasey scope. More info about scope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVPbSt88S3Y

I'm really intrigued by this whole series of photos we were posting about that guy. I love that you can put all this pieces together and try to guess the entire story. That's why I love searching all this archives... I'm no filmmaker myself but I have this "vision" of a short film titled "Man in a white hat"... You know black & white, 15-20 minutes, based on all these photos.

[Seth_Soldier]

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.

Yes, but we won't know the exact reason.
The left soldier seemed a trigger-happy guy.
The russian might have done a tiny wrong move like walking faster or not walking in the middle of the road.

I haven't found a good explanation.
Afaik the photograph was SS Kriegsberichter Franz Roth

and an other pic of that day:

[Kasztelan]

The left soldier seemed a trigger-happy guy.

Yeah, I was under the same impression. If you look at the very last photo, this guy is still tense and aiming at the body, while the other soldier has his gun lowered and is doing this gesture like he was trying to calm that guy down.

[Leopardi]

German POW's, I wonder what happened to them with all the Soviet demands after the Finnish truce.

[nysä]

German POW's, I wonder what happened to them with all the Soviet demands after the Finnish truce.

Over 100,000 people were turned over to the Soviet Union, including over 2,500 German POWs. It's unknown what really happened to them (most likely forced labour), whereas many/most Russians were executed as traitors.

Source: "Ei armoa Suomen selkänahasta - Ihmisluovutukset Neuvostoliittoon 1944- 1981" by Jussi Pekkarinen, Juha Pohjonen




Two StuG IV (mid- and late-production) claimed by the 2nd Belorussian Front. East Prussia, late January 1945

[Kasztelan]

It looks like fortification/tank version of Suomi with a standard stock

[Flippy Warbear]

Just a regular Suomi with a barrel shroud from the bunker variant?

[Kasztelan]

Sure, I suppose it works both ways 

[nysä]

Cavalaire-sur-Mer, August 1944

[Leopardi]

Lahti boat guarding the lake in Kiestinki

[Seth_Soldier]

[Kasztelan]