Cholm the killing fields

[Stijn David]

Hello,


Wel after giving you guys a little rest about the Cholm issue and to get fire again into the Cholminterest i decided to show once again a very nice ( sad ) never published picture.

This picture is taken during the end off April 1942 ( last weeks of the encirclement ) by a former glider pilot and shows 2 soldiers ( a LW officer and one not identifyed ) talking towards each others nearby a grave yard from KIA soldiers.

Please take a good look at this picture and tell me what you guys observe => a major Tip for you guys is that it is actually quite touching !!! ( it is quiete easely IMHO )

Cordial Greetings and thanks for showing

[Joseph D'Errico]

Wooden gravesite marking look like the RAD symbol?
JD

[Stijn David]

Cholm the killing fields

Hello,


Nope => good try , look carefully between the 2 standing soldiers , if im not mistaking we can see 2 feet + a cloth cover drapped over a presumably death soldier !!!!!!!!!

Not quite the image we normally see from German side , it shows once again the ugly face of a war + somwhere there must have been a German family who lost a relative in that little town called " Cholm " => even a so called heroic battle takes casualty's and here we see a unusual image of this raw reality .


Cordial Greetings,

[Lorenzo Brown]

I have enhanced the photo...definitely a fallen soldier.

[Joseph D'Errico]

Hello,
I saw that, but I thought that was too easy. I think the gravesites and their markings are also a good testament of comradery in the field as well as the brutality of war.
JD