The first picture showing Dostler staring at the camera is so clear because it was originally shot in full color. The remaining pictures are movie camera stills. The entire execution was filmed for newsreel audiences back in the US. Dostler carried out the execution of 15 or so OSS American operatives who had been captured. They were on a mission of sabotage. Apparently the order to execute them came from Kesselring himself. The execution newsreel footage is pretty well known, well at least it has been shown over the decades on tv, just as the execution footage of Skorzeny's men captured at Bastogne in US uniforms are pretty infamous...cheers and regards, Ryan S