This photo was taken in 1943 and shows members of the Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost in a "gruppenbild" (group photo) session at their headquarters in Angerburg, Mauerwald, which is part of the German Army Command Headquarters complex (OKH-Stabsquartier). For the identification is, sitting from left to right: Major Dr. Hellmut Nauck (Wirtschaftssachbearbeiter Gruppe II), Oberstleutnant Hübner (Leiter Gruppe V), Oberstleutnant z.V. Riedl, Oberst i.G. Reinhard Gehlen (Abteilungschef), Oberstleutnant Karl Ogilvie (Sachbearbeiter Lage Skandinavien), Oberstleutnant i.G. Johannes Hoheisel (Leiter Gruppe II), and Major i.G. Höfer (Sachbearbeiter Lage Mitte, Gruppe I). Second row FLTR: Hauptmann Georg Viktor von der Marwitz (Kommandant des Stabsquartiers), Major i.G. Wilhelm Kuebart, Major i.G. Gerhard Wessel (Leiter Gruppe I), Major i.G. Karl-Heinz Graf von Rittberg (Sachbearbeiter Personallage, Gruppe II), Major i.G. Rudolf Grüner (Sachbearbeiter Lage A, Gruppe I), Oberleutnant Günther Letschert (Kartei-Referent), Ministerialregistrator Rudolf Bahlk, Oberleutnant Adolf Eiseler (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), unknown, and Technische Oberinspektor Johannes Wagner. Third row FLTR: Leutnant Peter von Vaernewyk (Gehilfe des Kommandanten Stabsquartier), Oberleutnant Jürgen Remé (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), Oberzahlmeister Albert Wiesemann (Mitarbeiter Kartei-Referat), Hauptmann Körnchen (Verwaltungsaufgaben), unknown, Hauptmann Otto Schiller (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), Oberleutnant Dr.jur. Dipl.-Kfm. dipl.cons. Max Ritter von Bitterl-Tessenberg (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), and Oberleutnant d.R. Walter Schüle (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I). Last row FLTR: Oberleutnant Buchholz (Mitarbeiter Gruppe III), Oberleutnant Hellmut von Hagens (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), Oberleutnant Hermann Förster (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), unknown, Sonderführer Emmanuel Haller (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), Major Friedrich-Wilhelm von Leutsch (Sachbearbeiter Lage Nord, Gruppe I), Hauptmann Kurt Göllnitz (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), unknown, unknown, and Kriegstechniker Dr.jur. Jacobus Reimers. Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East) itself is an intelligence organization formed by the German Army whose task is to analyze foreign military forces on the Eastern Front, especially the Soviet Union. When World War II ended, Abteilungschef Gehlen and his men were used by the CIA to continue their work in spying on Soviet Communists through a "new but old" unit called the Gehlen Organization. This unit later became the forerunner of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, a West German intelligence unit in the Cold War era.
Source :
Der Spiegel 1971
Bundesarchiv B 206 Bild-GN13-08-01
https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/JX6IFLT44EBIBOXOBAGFSUDWCDIOJEUB?isThumbnailFiltered=false&rows=20&offset=20&viewType=list&hitNumber=34
https://archive.org/stream/GEHLEN-Reinhard-CIA-files/GEHLEN-Reinhard-CIA-file-VOL-2_f%26c322_djvu.txt
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=260485
Similar to the scene in the movie "Saving Private Ryan", this photo - which was taken by Kriegsberichter Geller from PK (Propaganda-Kompanie) 694 - shows German soldiers from the panzer and infantry units enjoying the music from a gramophone, amidst the ruins of war-damaged buildings on the Eastern Front. There is no exact information which unit they came from, but most likely they were part of 1. Panzerarmee / Heeresgruppe A whom are celebrating the fall of Rostov to the Germans on July 23, 1942. Obviously this photo was not taken in Stalingrad as some sources claim. - including Bundesarchiv - because in July the German troops had not yet arrived in the "City of Hell".
