Heer Highway to Hell

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...something ominous about these pictures

Edited October 8, 2009 by Naxos

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[Guest Darrell]

Dusty old trail to .... Stalingrad Summer 1942? :whistle:

[Brian Wolfe]

Hi Naxos,

That's what I would call gritty reality.

There is no glory in these photos.

Thanks for posting them.

Regards

Brian

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[IrishGunner]

I am constantly amazed how heavily the German Army was dependent on horses.

Hollywood never shows it this way...

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[peter monahan]

I am constantly amazed how heavily the German Army was dependent on horses.

Hollywood never shows it this way...

I think the figure I read once was that 30% of Wermacht transport was still horse drawn by 1945. It was in connection with photos taken after D-Day, as the Allies rush to close the Falaise Gap: the results of Typhoons strafing convoys of horse drawn carts. When horse carcasses bloat the legs on the upper side are actually pushed out horizontal to the ground and there is one particularly heartbreaking shot of an Allied tank rolling past a whole roadside covered in these poor dumb animals who died as a result of an inter-human conflict.

Peter

[joe campbell]

phenomenal photos!!

there is a starkness in black/white photography

that is hard to match...

joe

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