NAZIS APPROACH SMOLENSK ON ROAD TO MOSCOW, MOVE TOWARD LENINGRAD, CHECKED NEAR KIEV (7/17/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/17/41 | Daniel T. Brigham, C. Brooks Peters, Otto D. Tolischus, F. Tillman Durdin, Charles Hurd, more

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

German soldier talks to wounded Soviet tanker.

Are you sure about that? It looks to me like a substantial part of the Soviet tanker is missing.

[PzLdr]

Most historians writing after the War were relying on the testimony, affidavits, studies done for the U.S. Army, by the German generals, including Halder. Their common themes were: all the mistakes were Hitler’s [if only he’d listened to us], and all the criminal acts were committed by the SS, including the same Waffen SS that saved their bacon more than once.

I first read of the dissension over the Kiev encirclement in, I believe, Alan Clarke’s “BARBAROSSA”.

[Larry381]

{German soldier talks to wounded Soviet tanker.} Are you sure about that? It looks to me like a substantial part of the Soviet tanker is missing.

I think you're right-no that was a personal comment for another photo that had no place/date. I know I shouldn't but I had to laugh when I read your comment.

[Swannie]

I don’t know what the topic of the thread is but by coincidence I was looking papke up on the net and came across this. i was drawn to his identity by a photo of his grave with a helmet mounted on top in a Youtube video series “unpublished German Photos of the war in Russia 1941-45. I think it was Episode 2 or 3. I was not expecting anyone else to be looking for him.