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This image is unidentified, but we suspect that it was taken in the Ukraine during the early phase of Barbarossa. We are not sure how to interpret the image. We assume that it is a propaganda photograph. Actually it is almost laughable. Here German soldiers are dolling out a small basket of some type of goodies. At the same time the NAZIs were shipping freight cars full of food back to the Reich. The question here becomes how to interpret photographs that have no ibformation associated wih them. There is no doubt in my mind that this phoograph was taken in the East during the summer of 1941. The peasabt scarves of the women suggest the Ukraine or perhaps Belorussia. It also seemes a staged photograph. We say that in part because of the basket. Just who staged the event we are not sure. Soldiers were not suposed to take photographs, although we know some did. The soldiers seem to be regular Wehrmacht soldiers, but there vaps and lack of weapons means that they are not front-line combat soldiers. This all seems to be aking place on a rail line. We would be very intersted in any insights readers mat have.
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