Regimentskommandeur Emmanuel von Kiliani in the Winter

Oberst Emmanuel von Kiliani (Kommandeur Artillerie-Regiment 193 / 93.Infanterie-Division) in Gostilizzy, winter of 1941/42. Starting from 8 September 1941, the regiment set up its command post in a manor in Gostilizzy, Leningrad Oblast, Russian Front. Kiliani would receive the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold on 2 January 1942 as a Regimentskommandeur in the same position.

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Totenkopf Soldiers with Civilian

The men from the Totenkopf Division giving humanitarian aid to the poor and affected people in the Baltic states, as they push towards Leningrad during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.

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German Prisoners Captured Near Leningrad

A column of German POWs captured near Leningrad are marched through the ruins of a small village as Russian civilians look on. Approximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during the war, most of them during the great advances of the Soviet forces in the last year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post war reconstruction. According to Soviet records 381,067 German Wehrmacht soldiers died in Soviet labor camps (356,700 German nationals and 24,367 from other nations). Other sources put this number at close to one million. By 1950, five years after the war, most of the surviving German POWs were released. The last remaining German POWs in Soviet custody were released in 1956, eleven years after the end of the war. Near Leningrad (now, Saint Petersburg), Leningrad Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. December 1942. Image taken by Simon Friedland.

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Norwegian Soldiers on the Leningrad Front

Two Norwegian soldiers from the Den Norske Legion photographed on the Leningrad Front with a MG 34 (Maschinengewehr 34) machine gun mounted on an anti-aircraft tripod, summer of 1942. In the light-machine gun role, it was used with a bipod and weighed only 12.1 kg (26.7 lb). In the medium-machine gun role, it could be mounted on one of two tripods, a smaller one weighing 6.75 kg (14.9 lb), the larger 23.6 kg (52.0 lb). The larger tripod, the MG 34 Lafette, included a number of features, such as a telescopic sight and special sighting equipment for indirect fire. The legs could be extended to allow it to be used in the anti-aircraft role, and when lowered, it could be placed to allow the gun to be fired "remotely" while it swept an arc in front of the mounting with fire, or aimed through a periscope attached to the tripod. Mounted to the Lafette the effective range of the MG 34 could be extended out to 3,500 meters when fired indirectly.

Norwegian Kriegsberichter SS-Oberscharführer Oskar Bang in the Leningrad Front

Norwegian war correspondent SS-Oberscharführer Oskar Bang (born in 9 April 1916) holding a film camera on the Leningrad Front with the Den Norske Legion in the summer of 1942. Note the collar tab representing a Norwegian lion holding an axe.