Dead German soldier, re-enactment or real photo? (gruesome photo!)

[stonemint]

Waffen-SS:

[stonemint]

FJ KIA in Normandy on the "meatwagon":

[stonemint]

SS anti-tank team wiped out by US troops.

[stonemint]

The Soviets did the same thing (to prove that the SS were not "supermen" after all):

[Jean-Loup]

Interesting photos. It seems clear the photographers in some of them proped up or rotated the SS helmets for the runes to be well visible.

[stonemint]

Happens on both sides--US GI killed by a German sniper, 1945 (& this is a period photo):

[stonemint]

German EM:

[panzer1432]

sad loss of life

[Remy Spezzano]

This is most definitely an original wartime photo taken by Tony Vaccaro.
Who I had the pleasure to meet 2 yrs ago when he was promoting the HBO documentary about his WW2 photos. Very humble man.

[Admiraal]

German EM:

Looks like a civilian to me. That type of hat was common.

[matthias_AC]

Looks like a civilian to me. That type of hat was common.

Agree.

[matthias_AC]

Here is another graphic shot, taken by Robert Capa and showing machinegunner Raymond Bowman who was killed in the city of Leipzig by (supposably) a German sniper just seconds before the picture was taken. Not a close-up like the other pictures, but dramatic and sad anyway (the reflection in the fresh blood always gives me the shivers):

[mjfur]

Here is another graphic shot, taken by Robert Capa and showing machinegunner Raymond Bowman who was killed in the city of Leipzig by (supposably) a German sniper just seconds before the picture was taken. Not a close-up like the other pictures, but dramatic and sad anyway (the reflection in the fresh blood always gives me the shivers):

Interestingly he is wearing a version of the Luftwaffe LKp Flight Helmet.

[Gren. Fuchs]

SS anti-tank team wiped out by US troops.

What makes this ID as SS? Is there a location associated with this photo?

[mjfur]

What makes this ID as SS? Is there a location associated with this photo?

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