A leader around the MG34 team
A Waffen-SS junior leader accompanies the two men working the MG34. The three figures make a small support group, with direction, observation and the operation of the gun gathered into one scene rather than spread across unrelated poses.
The MG34 belonged to the general-purpose machine-gun tradition, able to serve with different mounts and assignments. That flexibility did not remove its need for a team and ammunition. The set shows the human organization around the weapon, giving the leader a relationship to a task instead of leaving him as a separate command figure.
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