• Jumi@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Take this with a grain of salt but I think it might be a picture of the 6. Panzer-Division.

    That Division was in the Heeresgruppe Nord (Army Group North) at the start of Operation Barbarossa and after the siege of Leningrad started it was relocated to the Heeresgruppe Mitte (Army Group Middle) where they took part in the attack on Moscow. They then had to be taken out of the front to be rearmed and retrained after heavy casualties, so I assume most of the soldiers shown in the picture where either dead or incapacitated at that point.

    Later they were used in the Heeresgruppe Don/Süd (Army Group Don or later/before Army Group South) for the failed relief attack of Stalingrad and Operation Zitadelle.

    They came back to Germany for replenishment shortly before Operation Bagration started and came back to Heeresgruppe Mitte when it ended.

    Then they were sent to Hungary and later capitulated to the Red Army in May 1945.

    Interestingly enough Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the officer who tried to kill Hitler with a bomb, was in that Division for a while.