Large sized portrait  showing Fallschirmjäger Bataillon Reinhardt just before their deployment at the Eastern Front.
 
In this picture one can see a lot of highly decorated paratroopers with awards like the, EK 1, Spanish Cross, German Cross in Gold, Rudolf Toschka wearing his Knight's Cross and 3 other paratroopers who were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in a later stage of the war. 
 
Leutnant Bading (Dk und Ehrenschale)
Rudolf Hoffmann (Dk)
Horst Vogel (Dk und Ehrenschale)
Rudolf Toschka (Ritterkreuz)
Hauptmann Kurt Reinhardt (Dk)
Leutnant Karl Ludwig Haedge (Dk)
Oberleutnant Robert Hoefeld (DK und später Rk)
Horst Diedrich (Spanienkreuz)
Hauptmann Friedrich Hauber (Dk und später Rk)
Leutnant Bruno Wittenauer (Dk)
Leutnant Erich Beine (später Ritterkreuz)
 
size: 10 cm x 16,5 cm
 
condition: in a used condition with a period repair in the middle (creased) to stabilise the picture, nevertheless a top historical  Fallschirmjäger picture.