Picture of a German pow during the war in Russia

I don't usually take pity on the Germans but this one attached of a pow during the Russian winter campaign of 1941 makes me do so.

It shows absolute dejection and hopelessness. You can imagine a thought of "Why am I here?"

For some reason, I just feel so sorry for this soldier.

 

Ive little pity on them-loook at the millions of Russian PWs that died for lack of proper treatment.

 

I feel pity for all-who through no fault of their own-got swept up in the senseless mayhem dreamed up by a drug addled madman on the one side and a vodka crazed meglamaniac on the other.

 

Totally agree Jeffin. As I said before, for some reason this picture somes up the whole campaign for me. I've actually seen
the scene in a short documentary. He glances at the camera and then looks away.

 

All the promises he heard were not true; all the pride he had became desperation; all the fears became reality; rummors he has heard about the treatment for the prisoners; future? future is the next moment; hungry for sure; frozen to death, trying to be covered with everything he can use; home? do not even think about it; you will go crazy; keep your eyes low; focus to survive; Desperation.....

Looks more like a captured animal than a human. Who is human and who is sub-human now Adolf?

 

Pelekys;
An understandable emotion given the horrendous events-but emotions and correct military actions seldom connect. A war winning military policy for the USSR in 1941-1945 would have been to have turned significant numbers of the enemy's population against their rulers-but this was an impossible strategy given the passions of the times. There were some clumsy attempts.
My country-The United States Of America-was slow in this concept of "knowing thy enemy", but they did come to puzzling out just what had happened with these people to have cut them loose after the occupation.
That guy in the photo? Just a scared kid realizing he had been marched off at gunpoint by a leadership with some pretty tenuous connections with reality.
We should have used that!
JEffinMNUSA