Photos WW2 German Forces

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A Panzer III Ausf Gof the 21. Panzer Division and supporting Infantry advance in the course of Unternehmen Theseus (Gazala offensive). Cyrenaica, May 1942

 

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Hotchkiss H35 tanks in service with the 7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen" in the Balklans, 1941.

A lot of "lesser" captured equipment was sent to the Balkans for anti-partisan service. We also see Italian light tanks and Russian armored cars used there. The theory was that more of the better German machines would be free for fighting the Soviets and in the western front.

 

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A lot of "lesser" captured equipment was sent to the Balkans for anti-partisan service. We also see Italian light tanks and Russian armored cars used there. The theory was that more of the better German machines would be free for fighting the Soviets and in the western front.

Well, it's not like Yugoslav partisans have anything efficient to counter even the obsolete light armored vehicles. Also, the less is said about, 7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen" the better.

 

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Scharnhorst in 1939 with her new Atlantic bow.

Admiral Hipper

Admiral Graf Spee's wreck in the River Plate, near Montevideo, Uruguay, 2 Feb 1940

Bismarck with full Atlantic camouflage in Norway, May 21 1941

Bismarck and Prinz Eugen conducting refueling exercises, Apr-May 1941
The photo was taken during Operation Rheinübung in May of 1941. Prinz Eugen had a team of Wehrmacht Propaganda reporters filming the ship during the operation. This photo is a still taken from the footage recorded by the Wehrmacht. Rheinübung was Bismark's final operation as she was sunk on 27 May 1941 with the Prinz Eugen narrowly escaping. The film was never released but Paul Schmalenbach donated the film after the war to an Prinz Eugen veterans group.

U-Boats surrender at Loch Eriboll, Scotland, May 19, 1945

 

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Horten Ho 229 prototype. It was a German prototype fighter/bomber initially designed by Reimar and Walter Horten to be built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik late in World War II. It was the first flying wing to be powered by jet engines

The design was a response to Hermann Göring's call for light bomber designs capable of meeting the "3×1000" requirement; namely to carry 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of bombs a distance of 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) with a speed of 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph). Only jets could provide the speed, but these were extremely fuel-hungry, so considerable effort had to be made to meet the range requirement. Based on a flying wing, the Ho 229 lacked all extraneous control surfaces to lower drag. It was the only design to come even close to the requirements, and received Göring's approval. Its ceiling was 15,000 metres (49,000 ft)

 

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A Ju 87D-5 of the 1./SG 3 "Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey", a German Stuka Wing that supported the Finnish forces in Summer 1944. Airstrip Immola near Imatra, Finland, June 21, 1944

 

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Ju 87 Ausführung G "Kanonenvogel" (gun bird) with 3,7-cm-Flak 37 automatic cannons. USSR, 1942

 

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Heinrich Himmler examines a captured T-34/76 tank during his inspection of SS-Division Das Reich, Soviet Union, April 1943

 

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Crewmen camouflaging Tirpitz, while others relax by the after 380mm gun turret, as she lay in the Flehke Fjord, Norway, circa 1942.
Note 10.5cm gun loading practice machine on the main deck, at left.

 

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KMS Scharnhorst during the operation against Spitsbergen Norway Sept 1943

Danish soldiers stand guard over the German cruiser KMS Prinz Eugen after German naval forces surrender in Copenhagen harbor, 13 May 1945.

 

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MG42 machine gun crew fighting in Monte Cassino, Italy, Apr 1944,

 

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Changing the diesel engine of German U Boat U-593. U-593 was sunk on 13 December 1943 by USS Wainwright & HMS Calpe via depth charges in the Mediterranean Sea

 

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Minensuchboot 1935 class minesweeper

U-66, returning from the patrol, in the port of Lorient, France, Sept 1942

 

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A soldier from the "Germania" regiment of the Waffen-SS Division Wiking fires an MG 34 from a tripod during combat in a Soviet village, 1941

An armoured column of Panzer III Ausf. G and SdKfz 10 halftracks advances towards Moscow during Operation Typhoon, October 1941

 

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Soldiers rush into action against Red Army positions during the invasion of the Soviet Union in October, 1941

Panzer IV Ausf. F2/G of the 4th Panzer Army passes by infantry near the Stalingrad-Morozosvk railway on the outskirts of Stalingrad, August 1942

 

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Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, and Admiral Hipper at Trondheim, Norway, 1940

Crew of German submarine U-537 pose with a polar bear killed while installing weather station "Kurt", Martin Bay, Newfoundland, October 1943

 

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German soldier inside a truck with a bullet hole-riddled windshield, Soviet Union, 1941

 

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Krupp K5 283mm Railway Gun Firing (1943)

German infantry advances in the snow behind a Panzer III during the drive on Moscow as part of Operation Typhoon, Autumn/Winter 1941

 

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The sinking of battleship Bismarck as seen from HMS Dorsetshire. This picture was taken by Petty Officer L.H. Martin.

KMS Scharnhorst conducts a torpedo firing drill in the Baltic after her refit

Kommandant and Watch Officer confer in a lighter moment on the conning tower of a Type VIIC

U-135 with Captain Praetorius wearing the white cap.

For her last patrol, she left Lorient on 7 June 1943. Northeast of the West Indies, she attacked and damaged Twickenham on the 15th. She then moved to the east Atlantic where she was attacked by the sloop HMS Rochester, the corvettes HMS Migonette and Balsam and a US PBY Catalina flying boat of VP-92. U-135 was sunk east of the Canary Islands on 15 July. Five men died, there were 41 survivors.