German soldiers taking cover in a cornfield on their advance to an ukrainian village, summer 1941. The picture was taken by photographer Artur Grimm during Unternehmen Barbarossa, German invasion of Soviet Union. The great plain of Europe stretches from the coast of the English Channel across the Low
Countries, Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union to the foothills of the Urals. Occasionally, as
if about to change its character, it gathers into the folds of undulating hills, but always it subsides
again into monotonous flatness. Bounded on the north by the sea, and on the south, at least until
the Ukraine, by mountains, it has for centuries been the stage on which first the tribes of Europe,
Celt, Teuton, and Slav, then the fanatics of religion, and finally the more formalised, but no less
warlike, armies of the national states which succeeded them, have enacted the gory dramas in
which European history so deplorably abounds.
Source :
http://losgrandesfotografos.blogspot.com/2018/02/arthur-grimm-1908-1990.html
https://www.stalingrad.net/introduction/introduction.html
https://waralbum.ru/371741/
