"turt" <wilm1@sprint.ca> wrote in message...
> "Bob Taylor" <news@windstream.net> wrote in message...
>> a425couple wrote:
>>> "Erinnerungen" wrote in message
>>> news:1r847a5p40g3bjdksroscumb3rhsf6bkaf@4ax.com...
>>> The fierce fighting of the winter is clearly evident from this
>>> photograph of the Kholm pocket, where Germans have stacked
>>> dead Red Army soldiers to form a protective wall, early 1942
>>> Perhaps practical, but just seems wrong!
>>> Thanks for the photos.
>>
>> Agreed. But as someone famously said, war is hell. Those bodies are
>> frozen solid and the ground is probably impenetrable, so what should they
>> do with them?
>> Yes, Erinnerungen, thanks for sharing this amazing collection.
>
> I cant imagine the mess when the weather warms up.
Yep.
That's why getting transferred to Graves Registration unit
in the Quartermaster Corps was not a choice plum!
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