Photos WW2 German Forces

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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-676-7969A-25, Flugzeug Heinkel He 177.
Reich territory.- Bomber Heinkel He 177 on airfield with crew; PK Eins Kp Lw zbV
Date: 23 September 1944.
Photographer: Schröder.
Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht - Heer und Luftwaffe (Bild 101 I)
Source: German Federal Archives.

 

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Tiger I of Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 505

 

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THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORMANDY 1944.
A German StuG III Ausf. G assault gun on its side in the river at Putanges, 20 August 1944.
Creator: Knight (Capt), No. 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit.
Source: © IWM B 9464

 

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The Red Army received several hundred Churchills as a part of the Anglo-Soviet lend-lease arrangements.
They subsequently fought in heavy tank units in several key battles including Stalingrad and Kursk.
Here, a camouflaged Demag D-10 half-track passes a KO'd Red Army Churchill IV somewhere in Russia, circa 43/44.
(Bundesarchiv)

 

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WWII. Battle of Moscow. Russia. Winter 1941. German troops of Army Group Centre rest up during the battle.

 

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German Battleship Scharnhorst at Wilhelmshaven - April 1939

Scharnhorst was sank on December 26, 1943, 77 years ago, during the Battle of the North Cape, out of her crew of 1,968, only 36 were rescued from the frigid Arctic waters.
LIFE Magazine Archives - Hugo Jaeger Photographer

 

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A member of SS Nords Pioneer Battalion , photo taken winter 41/42 . Probably building the winter accommodation , the remainsof many of these can still be found in Lapland to day.

 

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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-408-0847-10, Flugzeuge Heinkel He 111.
France.- Association of bombers Heinkel He 111 in flight; KBK Lw 5
Date: 1940.
Photographer: Martin.
Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht - Heer und Luftwaffe (Bild 101 I)
Source: German Federal Archives.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 109K4 10.JG51 Black 1 and bar. Ronne, Bornholm, Denmark. 4 May 1945.

 

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SS officers are being disarmed after having been surrounded and forced to surrender in Milan, Italy. 30 April 1945.
Source: IWM

 

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PanzerVI Tiger - 2th Panzer -Division Das Reich - Vire-Caen - France -1944

 

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Tiger II in Danzig, March 1945

 

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Wehrmacht Officer leaving the Château de Versailles.

 

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Spanish Volunteers of the Blue Division prepare to leave for Russia.

 

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Armoured column advances past infantrymen and civilians on the side of the road during Operation Spring Awakening, Hungary, March 1945

 

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1st company, sPzAbt.503, a Tiger I crew loads shells for its 88mm KwK 36, Russia, June 1943

 

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Kholm pocket .winter 1941/42.Germans and body of soviet soldier.Eastern Front.

 

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WWII. Eastern Front. 16 July 1944. A German sapper primes a stick of dynamite in preparation of blowing the rail line.

 

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British motor merchant vessel Beacon Grange sinking after being torpedoed by German submarine U-552, south of Iceland, 27 April 1941.

 

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German troops smashing their way into a Russian house during Operation Barbarossa, summer 1941.
© IWM (HU 111383)