Photos WW2 German Forces

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A low-level aerial view of Berlin taken four months after the war gives an idea of the total devastation. The building with the tower (left) is the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall).

 

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2 May 1945: Berlin surrenders to the Soviets during WWII. German General Weidling accepts General Chuikov's unconditional surrender terms. Weidling is taken prisoner by the Soviets and sentenced to 25 yrs in prison. He died on Nov. 17, 1955 in Russia.

 

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SS grenadiers alongside a Panzer IV during street fighting to recapture the city of Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, March 1943

 

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8.8cm Flak fires on British tanks near the Egypt-Libya border, note the kill marks on its barrel, November 1941

 

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German soldiers eating chicken during a pause in their advance through Soviet territory. Eastern Front

 

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Focke-Wulf Fw200C 'Condor' of the Luftwaffe. The aerial array on the nose is for the FuG 200 Hohentwiel air-to-surface vessel detection device, a low UHF frequency type of radar, used by the Luftwaffe from 1943-1944.

 

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3.7cm Pak 36 team in action, circa 1939-41

 

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Krupp K5 283mm railway gun firing. It was one of the most commonly used railway guns during World War 2 by Germany

 

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Panzer I being towed across a bridge in Belgium, 1940

 

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Wehrmacht soldiers of Panzer Regiment 2, 16th Panzergrenadier Division and an Italian woman pass by German Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III Ausf. G) assault guns near the Piazza del Popolo. Rome, Lazio, Italy. November 1943.

 

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Crew of a Panzer IV (with turret skirts) (tank number 303) of the 16th Panzer Division, stopping at the roadside

 

[uktabber]

Wow, great pictures!! Thanks for posting them!

 

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Messerschmitt Me262, Innsbruck, Austria. May 1945

Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe 170312 near Frankfurt, Germany March 1945

 

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Norwegian Campaign. 9 April 1940. German Fallschirmjäger after securing the Fornebu Airport in Oslo.

 

[ordnanceguy]

The caption reads "Looking down on some of the wrecked and abandoned Nazi equipment left in the courtyard of the City Hall in the 10th District of Paris after the French capital's liberation August 25, 1944. The Nazis used the building as a telephone center and fortress. Their resistance was strong here and many members of the Maquis were massacred and buried in the courtyard."

There are a lot of different vehicles shown here. Can anyone properly ID them? Most appear to be looted but otherwise undamaged.

 

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German infantrymen give a light to a captured Belgian soldier, May 1940.

 

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Wehrmacht machine gunner following heavy street fighting to recapture the city of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on December 14, 1943.

 

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Soldiers of SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon 500 in a position during the fighting near Vilnius. July 1944

 

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Soldiers of the 28th Volunteer Grenadier division of the SS “Wallonia” inspect a knocked out IS-2 near Riga, 1944.

 

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Wehrmacht soldiers next to a knocked out Soviet KV-1S near Lake Ladoga. 1944