The guy was a young man, in his mid-twenties, when the war began, but then, due to an unfortunate mess-up with the wife of an admiral of the Kriegsmarine -who spent a long time out in the sea-- he was sent to the Eastern Front. Helgard worked after a picture taken in the Ukraine in 1943. Three years of fighting against Stalin's troops made the unfortunate Werner Von Stuck look like that. Also, as an added punishment, he was never issued a new uniform, that's how his grade insignia became faded.

I hope this little piece of info restores the historical truth of the tragic events pictured here.

Bravo Helgard for the accurate representation of this long forgotten lost soldier!

The tank BTW is fantastic!

--Panos

"That's another fine mess you got me in to!" -- Oliver Hardy