Robin yes I think I know the photo that Alamy one reminded you of, it’s a still from a Soviet clip showing some bodies near the airport at Stalingrad, similar pose but in the other one it almost looks like he’s riding a bike lying down - bizarre how a corpse ended up frozen solid in such a position.
I’m with Brian about whether to portray certain aspects of war – clearly the vast majority of modellers avoid the worst & understandably so. But like him I sometimes find it tiresome to see yet another depiction of sanitised warfare as though it’s some kind of Cowboys & Indians game. I’m just as guilty, so in a fit of ultra-realism a few years ago I did this partisan aftermath…
At the time (2017) I was concerned not to offend the forum owners so I first asked if I could show them; in the end we agreed I’d provide a link to where these & other images were stored. Anyone could click the link so it wasn’t exactly censorship. I’ve been watching Erik’s current “The Spaghetti Massacre” in the Diorama forum and there seems to be no such sensitivity these days. At least my images are contained in this thread about Einsatzgruppen, anyone choosing to read it ought to have been prepared for anything. Is it glorifying War any more or less than a perfectly weathered Tiger?
For me it’s a conundrum, we here all find weapons of war totally fascinating, yet if confronted in real life with what they do to human beings I’d bet most of us would vomit.