5923434 ?Russia carries on?, Eastern Front, 1943 circa (b/w photo) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); National Army Museum, London; (add.info.: ?Russia carries on?, 1943 circa. Photograph, World War Two, Eastern Front (1941-1945), 1943 circa. The Germans, in reprisal for partisan actions, executed thousands of innocent Soviet civilians, but millions more died from starvation as the Germans requisitioned food for their armies and fodder for their horses. As they retreated from Ukraine and Belarus in 1943-1944, the German occupiers systematically destroyed infrastructure, towns, villages and crops. Civilians were left to starve or die of exposure. These parents have found their murdered son among a pile of dead bodies. One of 26 British and Soviet official photographs.); by National Army Museum ; out of copyright.