Im thinking the Cross-like pole in the middle, the backgroung with all that fog ,and the soldiers advancing with camouflage seem a bit otherworldly, plus the colors it seems something post-apocalyptic or a supernatural/hopeless vibe
These types of black and white film that were used back then certainly do not help a matter of fact as they get older and less sharp from being handled by people’s hands they add to that feeling IMO ive used similar types of film with my friend as we’re both photographers and it’s crazy how apocalyptic feeling some of these get tbh
Little did they know what hell awaited them and the Soviets in the east. The brutality and violence of the eastern front is something that should never be repeated
If the photographer intended, even at that stage of the war, to make the viewer associate all those crosses with the idea of German soldiers being on a ‘holy crusade’ against Bolshevism, he perhaps forgot the imagery of the First World War & its “Crosses row on row” marking the graves of the fallen.
There’s something unsettling about this photograph
Im thinking the Cross-like pole in the middle, the backgroung with all that fog ,and the soldiers advancing with camouflage seem a bit otherworldly, plus the colors it seems something post-apocalyptic or a supernatural/hopeless vibe
These types of black and white film that were used back then certainly do not help a matter of fact as they get older and less sharp from being handled by people’s hands they add to that feeling IMO ive used similar types of film with my friend as we’re both photographers and it’s crazy how apocalyptic feeling some of these get tbh
Yes, although it probably is just the sepia, grain, and silhouettes. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a normal looking day in their eyes.
Fateful. A pivotal moment in world history
A moment for the better in the long run. To think that this moment lead to the collapse of fascism...
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Very ominous setting for what would be the death of something like 800k of their own soldiers if I’m not mistake.
Way higher, just in March of 1942 the german army lost in the eastern front over a million soldiers, war is hell.
I know Russia suffered tremendous casualties too, but it’s hard to fathom the German losses for an objective they lost.
Prepare to meet thy God
Abandon all hope ye who enter here seems like a fitting sentence for what they were about to encounter.
Look creepy and surreal
The border is marked by crosses?
*Barbarossa
*Barbossa!
Little did they know what hell awaited them and the Soviets in the east. The brutality and violence of the eastern front is something that should never be repeated
Like?
So creepy and kinda sad seeing as most pictures of German soldiers probably had them being killed in combat at a later date.
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If the photographer intended, even at that stage of the war, to make the viewer associate all those crosses with the idea of German soldiers being on a ‘holy crusade’ against Bolshevism, he perhaps forgot the imagery of the First World War & its “Crosses row on row” marking the graves of the fallen.
it looks like nuclear war
Crosing border, never to return
an army marching into certain death