Dead Germans in a Trench is a 1918 oil painting by Irish artist William Orpen, made during the First World War.

It was inspired by the battlefield of the Battle of the Somme that Orpen had visited in 1917, and depicts the bodies of two dead German soldiers sinking into the mud at the bottom of a trench.

[1] The painting depicts two dead German soldiers, one lies on his back, with an agonised open-mouthed expression on his face and a clenched hand raised.

The skin on the face and arms are painted in a blue-green colour, suggesting putrefaction and decomposition.

It was first exhibited at Agnew's Gallery on Bond Street in London in May 1918, after the initial decision of the military censor Arthur Lee to deny permission was overruled.