'Surrender', 1943

Photograph, World War Two, Eastern Front (1941-1945), 1943.

Red Army soldiers, wrapped up well against the biting Russian winter, cover four surrendering Germans as they approach hands-aloft towards their trench. Three are armed with rifles, while the third carries a PPsh-41 submachine gun. The Red Army captured over three million German prisoners during the titanic struggle on the Eastern Front. Of these 374,000 died in captivity.

One of 26 British and Soviet official photographs.