German soldiers on the Eastern Front / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal battalions??? during the Second World War have been published as part of a new book much like the Allies were portrayed as doing in the classic war movie The Dirty Dozen. Images from ???Strafbattalion: Hitler???s Penal Battalions??? by author Walter S. Zapotoczny show soldiers from the Nazis??? Penal Battalions in the thick of the action, using tanks to launch an assault on the enemies in one picture and priming a mortar in another. Further, far darker images from the collection show the heavily armed troops shortly after capturing prisoners on one of their daring missions, while the most disturbing shot from the collection shows three troops holding guns to the backs of the heads of three Soviet partisan prisoners, before executing all three / Fonthill Media / mediadrumworld.com