ZoC -
Clearly you are just looking for reasons to criticize, and are twisting the facts to put your case together. If you start with a little more appreciation of the actual case, and don't come at it with an agenda, you might see:
The figure on the far left was actually left-handed and should be depicted pointing with his dominant hand.
The direction he needs to point out is to his right. To point with his other hand he would have had to turn or pivot. Left-handed or not, no member of the Wehrmacht is going to turn his back on an SS officer in late 1944.
The figure standing closest to the schwimmwagen had a slight hand wound so the bandages would have prevented him from putting his right hand in his pocket.
Yeah right. Look more closely … notice that the SS were equipped with GLOVES? Why? Because it was cold! But with bandages, it would have been impossible to put a glove on.
Only a civilian, who has never been in the field for days or weeks, in the winter, in northern Europe, would think that bandages will keep an un-gloved hand out of a pocket in sub-freezing weather.
The schwimmwagen had earlier suffered a flat tire, left-rear if I recall correctly, so the spare tire on the front would no longer be there.
If you think that the Germans would leave behind a flat tire in 1944, then you clearly do not understand the circumstances of the Germans in 1944. That flat tire was rubber, for heaven's sake. How many sources of rubber do you thing Germany had? Didn't you see where the canvas cover was folded over -- clearly a sign of some disturbance of the normally stable stowage of the spare? It should be obvious that the spare had been taken off, and the flat tire it replaced has been put on the front in it's place.
I mean really now … pay attention to the details!
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-Mark