The frozen body of a dead Red Army soldier in a defensive position captured by mountain rangers from the 6. Gebirgs-Division of the Nazi Wehrmacht. The Eastern Front of the Second World War in North Europe.
A German MG-34 machine gun is mounted on a snowy parapet. This testifies to the use of captured Wehrmacht weapons in the Red Army in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War.
The 6 Gebirgs-Division photo was taken during the Battle for the Soviet Arctic in the winter of 1941-1942.
Location: USSR
Picture taken: Winter 1941-1942