Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

German NCO enjoys a relaxing pipe while on guard with captured Soviet PPsh-41 (with box magazine), Russian Front (date and location unknown).  I have wondered sometimes what Germans were smoking in the latter stages of the war.  Was it something like the roasted scrapings of oak tree bark (left over after making the "coffee") ?  Or (though I hesitate to mention it) Greek tobacco ?  Best regards, JR.

A quiet smoke.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and senior staff members (from left) Lang, Ruge and Speidel contemplate a somewhat difficult situation, Normandy 1944.  Of the foursome, Rommel was perhaps the least committed to the anti-Hitler conspiracy that was to culminate in the 20 July bomb attack that resulted in Rommel's induced murder.  Best regards, JR.