The Heer was represented by parade ground figures that included marching officers, marching infantry men, marching flag-carriers, marching musicians, a marching panzer man in his distinctive black uniform, marching Gebirgsjager ("mountain troops"), marching musicians, marching cavalry and marching cavalry musicians. The parade ground figures also included officers standing at attention, enlisted personal standing at attention or at "present arms", standing flag-carriers, a panzer man saluting, standing musicians, standing cavalry and standing cavalry musicians.
There was also a figure of a drill instructor and three figures of new recruits doing training exercises.
Heer combat troops included Infanterie (series 500/- and 600/-) (riflemen, grenade throwers and machine gun teams), Kavallerie (series 400/-), Artillerie (crewmen for the tinplate artillery pieces), Nachrichtentruppe ("communications troops") which included World War I-vintage message dog- and carrier-pigeon-wranglers, Pioniere ("combat engineer and construction troops") and Krad-Schutzen ("motorcycle troops") on individual two-passenger motorcycles and three-passenger sidecar models.
Poison gas had been used by both sides on the Western Front during World War I, and so there was also a Gasalarmschlager ("gas alarm striker") and several Infanterie figures wearing gas masks.
The Verwundete und Sanitatspersonal (series 656) included doctors and nurses to treat the assortment of wounded soldiers that the medic figures brought back from the battlefield. Series 656 also included a Toter Soldat ("dead soldier") .
Lagerleben ("camp life") was represented by soldiers washing, cleaning, eating or simply lying around. There was also figure 550/36/50, a unit clerk who came ready to work with his own table, bench and typewriter.
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