MECtb, you don't have to worry, most people are surely aware of that. It is not difficult to understand that there were horrors on both sides, even if nobody points it out.

said niniss747 2008.03.28 at 16:56:47 PDT

They might have gotten caught with their pants down and had just enough time to run out before getting killed by the blast. Had the Soviets robbed them, they would have probably stripped them naked.

said Andreas3355 2008.01.21 at 08:14:12 PST

Germans did exactly the same to the Soviet dead at Stalingrad leaving them virtually naked. They also used to take every slice of bread they could find on dead Soviet soldiers. There was nobody to take those pictures... What goes around comes around...

said MECTb 2007.10.14 at 00:32:01 PDT

that's life.

said eigenmann81 2007.06.24 at 03:58:06 PDT

Took a closer look at the photo. The dead German in the foreground is barefoot as well...clean bare feet. I also noticed he isn't a soldier, but an airman in the Luftwaffe (Air Force).

said mnpd007 2007.02.21 at 19:00:06 PST

I've noticed some of the German dead in this series are barefoot. And, the feet look clean. Maybe boots were in short supply? Look at the clean barefeet of the dead German in the extreme upper left of this photo.

said mnpd007 2007.02.21 at 18:58:05 PST

typical eastern front photo, totally barbaric battles.

said tbsteph 2007.02.01 at 20:07:02 PST

yep.. the russians were so badly eqipt that they normally robbed the dead of anything usefull.. after killing them that is..

said ferryjambo 2006.12.22 at 09:20:55 PST

Smashed German Bunker. Evidently over run, note missing boots.

said jnvogler 2006.07.16 at 12:39:25 PDT