WEHRMACHT PHOTOGRAPHER FRANZ GRASSER 1911-1944

 

 

 

German soldier Franz Grasser (26.03.1911 - 13.11.1944) was already a gifted photographer before the war, but it’s his war-period work that is particularly poignant.

Conscripted in 1942, during his service with the German Army he kept taking photos, leaving us an extensive collection of documents in b&w and AGFA colour. Straying away from scenarios of death and destruction, his photos focused mainly in his companions and the wide landscapes of southern Soviet Union and its people.

When his division (the 376th ID) was destroyed in southern Ukraine in August 1944 he was declared MIA. The German War Grave Commission has him listed as deceased in Soviet captivity near Novorossiysk in November 1944.

Note: RECOLORIZED pictures in the tones of German AGFA colour film.

Original Deutsche Fotothek