WW II - Advance in the East 1941

The Nazi Propaganda on the back of the picture reads: Again and again atrocities of Bolshevists. Our photograph shows murdered women and children. The women have been raped in unimaginable manner. Motif from the Eastern Front from 07/16/1941. The attack undertaken by the German Army on the Soviet Union took place on 06/22/1941 under the code name Operation Barbarossa'. First welcomed and supported by the local population as liberators from the stalinist yoke the Wehrmacht became hated by the majority, which led to a guerilla warfare carried out with extreme brutality. [Irregularities in quality are due to its historical original.]

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