Photos WW2 German Forces

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A German officer using a pair of binoculars next to wire-laying infantrymen during the Second Battle of Kharkov, May 1942

 

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Infantrymen position themselves at the corner of a house during street fighting in Odessa, Soviet Union, October 1941

MG34 Stalingrad 1942

 

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Eastern European volunteers in the German Army in winter camouflage search houses in a village, Soviet Union, March 1943

Two members of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" observe the burning ruins of Narva after intense Soviet artillery and air raids, 1944

The Soviet air force conducted an air raid, levelling the historic town of Narva on 6 March. An air and artillery shock of 100,000 shells and grenades at the "Nordland" and "Nederland" detachments in Ivangorod prepared the way for the 30th Guards Rifle Division's attack on 8 March. Simultaneous pitched battles took place north of the town, where the 14th Rifle Corps supported by the artillery of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps attempted to re-establish a bridgehead. Regiments of the Estonian SS Division repulsed the attacks, causing great Soviet losses.

 

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German troops in the Demyansk Pocket unloading supplies from a Ju 52 transport, Russia, Jan 1942.
German Federal Archive

 

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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-665-6815-10A, Osfront, Junkers Ju 87, Tarnanstrich.
Ostfront.- Spraying a white winter camouflage on the wing of an aircraft Junkers Ju 87 "6G+MS" of the 5./StG 1; One Kp Lw zbV]
Date: December 1943.
Photographer: Speck.
Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht - Heer und Luftwaffe (Bild 101 I)
Source: German Federal Archives.

 

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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-385-0582-06, Flugzeug Heinkel He 111.
France.- Bomber Heinkel He 111 "V4+LU" of the Kampfgeschwader 1 (KG 1) on field airfield; KBK Lw 4
Date: 21 June 1940.
Photographer: Wanderer, W.
Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht - Heer und Luftwaffe (Bild 101 I)
Source: German Federal Archives.

 

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The Panzer II Ausf. L Luchs ( Lynx) was arguably Germany's best reconnaissance vehicle of WW2.
Its most distinctive feature was the "Schachtellaufwerk" interleaved roadwheels, something usually associated with bigger tanks such as the Tiger 1 and Panther etc.
Despite its apparent success only around 100 were manufactured as the MAN factory suspended production to concentrate on the then new Panther.
Today there are only two surviving examples...one in the UK's Tank Museum and the other in the French Musée des Blindés in Saumur.
The pictured example was captured by British troops in Normandy and shipped back to the UK for evaluation.
Please view the "Tank Chat" link posted below.

 

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Looking somewhat like a 1:35 armour modeller's workbench, these are components which were awaiting assembly as a part of the German's Maus super-heavy tank program, but the war ended before they could be used.
(IWM)

 

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During the mid 1930s when Germany was gradually and surreptitiously re-arming following Hitler's ascent to power, the Heer resorted to using dummy tanks to practise armoured maneuvers in the field, pending the avaliability of the real thing.
These were simply plywood and canvas bodies which fit over regular automobiles, as seen here.
Crude maybe...but they stood them in good stead as the events of 1939 demonstrated.
(IWM)

 

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German "Fallschirmjäger", early in the war in their barracks in Germany.

 

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

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Not going to try that with the MP?

 

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Not going to try that with the MP?

Nope, unless you have a death wish.

 

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Young German soldiers of the Wehrmacht, having completed basic training, assemble to take the "Führer Oath" at their Munich barracks. Munich, upp. Bavaria, Nazi Germany. 1943.

 

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Molotow, Ribbentrop and Field Marshal Keitel walks down the front off the parade at Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin in November 1940.
Ref. Natmus/FHM

 

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Panzergrenadier from the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend in Normandy. 1944.

 

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A column of Panzer Is & IIs pause along the Brda River, General Heinz Guderian can be seen on the right in his command half track, 3 September 1939.

 

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Tank training at the range west of Kurmärker Kaserne ( now Patch Barracks in Stuttgart)

 

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A Ju-87 with a BK 3,7 anti-tank gun pod.

 

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