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British soldier with captured Nazi bicycle-mounted anti-tank troops, Germany, WW2, 1945
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They're kids!
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In 1945 toward the end of the war, Germany had teenagers 16 or sometimes younger fighting.
Mark 3 Sten gun pictured. The second most produced Sten variant, though less than half as many were produced as the Mark 2.
Two Panzerfaust anti-armor weapons in the bottom left. They are either the 60M or 100M variants, I can't tell from the photo. Both variants had identical warheads, but different maximum ranges. Without being able to read the text on the warheads I can't definitively say which variant they are though.
I've gone back and forth on if the slung rifle is an MP 43 or StG 44, based on the stock profile as it mates to the receiver, buttstock size, barrel nut, and possibly the grip material but have decided the resolution, angle, and lack of color in the photo makes me hesitant to make a definitive call. The MP 43 and StG 44 are nearly identical with only a few tiny changes between iterations, both taking the same magazines, intermediate ammunition, and filling the same role.