Totenkopf Etched DWM Parabellum

[Douglas Jr.]

Originally Posted by alanint

I've seen this photo before and have always considered it to be authentic.

These are French volunteers to the German army. Not all soldiers were filthy all the time. There was guard, garrison and occupation duty which did not involve combat.

Pictured is a scarse, MP38/40 transitional gun. Replicas do not come with early, slab-sided magazines or early, non ribbed magazine wells.

The negative is reversed so the MP40 is backwards. This is the only issue I see with this image.

I had see this picture before many times also.
It is a wartime photo and, if I remember correctly, it was first published in a German magazine called "Signal".