Photos WW2 German Forces

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German picture of the burning city of Leningrad.

 

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WWII. Italian Campaign. Battle of Anzio. 22 January - 5 June 1944. Wounded German Fallschirmjäger are evacuated from the battlefield in Sd.Kfz.251/8 Krankenpanzerwagen (Ambulance) half-tracks.

 

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Once again I must say......AWESOME PHOTOS you've posted of the eastern front and western Europe in WWII Skyline Drive, Thank You......keep them coming!!!

 

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Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf. b in the background - don't see them very often ​

 

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Generalleutnant Hasso von Manteuffel and Major Harald Krieg, Knight's Cross holders of the elite Panzergrenadierdivision " Großdeutschland ", confer in a defensive frontline trench during the second Battle of Târgu Frumos. Eastern Romania. Eastern Front. May, 1944.

 

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Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber over Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 2, 1942. Mamaev Kurgan at right.
German Federal Archive

 

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Liège-Belgium, October 1944.
German Gestapo agents arrested after the liberation of Liège, herded together in a cell. (Most probably they are local informers of the GESTAPO)

 

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Smoke rising from various districts of Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 30, 1942. Water tower of Stalingrad Station 1 is at left.
German Federal Archive

 

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German soldiers taking a break, Caucasus region, Soviet Union. Summer 1942.

 

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Oberst Karl Lorenz (second from left) Panzergrenadier-Division Grossdeutschland, South of Ukraine, January 1944.
He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

 

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The 9.SS-Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen" was not a very highly photographed unit, and pictures of this formation are hard to come by. The division was highly involved in the foiling of Operation Market Garden, this photo comes from a collection of which most of the photos are from that battle.

 

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Two werhmacht soldiers with MG 34 ready to fire at the enemy during the invasion of Russia

 

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Former State of Poland, September 1939.
The German-Russian border posts at the demarcation line.

 

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U-203 – Sunk 25 April 1943.
Built as yard number 632 of Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft AG in Kiel, she was laid down on 28 March 1940, launched on 4 January 1941 and commissioned on 18 February under Kapitänleutnant Rolf Mützelburg.
U-203 carried out eleven patrols with the first flotilla and is credited with sinking 21 ships for 94,270 gross register tons (GRT) and damaging a further three for 17,052 GRT. She was a member of eleven wolfpacks.
She was sunk by British carrier-borne aircraft and a British warship southeast of Greenland in April 1943.

 

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A veteran German Obergefreiter sporting the ribbon of the Iron Cross 2nd Class, Infantry Assault Badge and a wound badge. Stalingrad, September 1942.

 

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Occupied Brest, September 23rd 1939
Wehrmacht officers generalleutnant Mauritz von Wiktorin at left, general der Panzertruppe Heinz Guderian (centre) and Kombrig Semyon Krivoshein at right for the Soviet all standing on the platform during the common parade.

 

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Occupied Brest, September 23rd 1939
Wehrmacht officers generalleutnant Mauritz von Wiktorin at left, general der Panzertruppe Heinz Guderian (centre) and Kombrig Semyon Krivoshein at right for the Soviet all standing on the platform during the common parade.

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You can almost hear them....
Ve vill invade you wit our panzers, commie...
....its a long way to Moscow, ask the french.....[Sneeze] t34.....

 

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German armorer loading ammunition into a Bf 109 fighter of JG 54 'Grünherz' fighter wing, Russia, August 1941. (Reiners, Federal Archive).

 

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This pic came without a caption, but to me it looks like two "Fallschirmjäger", the ruins might point to Monte Cassino.....