Photos WW2 German Forces

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dKfz 250/9 half-track burning after being knocked out by a British tank during the advance towards Vire, 2 August 1944.

 

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Paratroopers armed with panzerfaust and panzerschrek sheltering near a knocked out American M4 Sherman tank during the Batlle of the Bocage, Normandy summer 1944.

 

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A Panzer IV and infantry of the 6th Panzer Division of Army Group North slowly moving through a minefield near Leningrad

 

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A German soldier in a trench near a knocked out Soviet Valentine tank in Rzhev - 23 December, 1942

 

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German motorcyclists drive past a still smouldering Soviet BA-10 armoured car during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa - June, 1941

 

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Jagdpanther crew 1944

 

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Abandoned equipment including a Marder lll and a 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling standing by the side of a ruined farm-house at Breville. 1944

 

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German troops with a 45mm anti-tank gun M1937 and early model T-34/76 following a failed Soviet breakthrough attempt at Ruzhany in Belarus in mid 1941

 

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France, Normandy.- After the invasion, infantrymen in the ditch watching the airspace

 

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A german shepperd, literally

 

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A German military cameraman jumps between the cars of an armoured train. July 1941

 

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Pz.Kpfw. 38 tank from 7th Panzer Abteilung (Division) on the move. The tank is towing a trailer with a 200-liter barrel of fuel for the tank; Eastern Front, 1941.

 

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The crew of a StuG III assault gun from the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 394 (Assault Gun Brigade 394) having lunch in the French commune of Lonlay L'Abbaye on rue Saint-Michel; North-western France, June, 1944.

 

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T-34/85 and IS-2 knocked out by Panzergrenadiers near Riga,1944

 

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Two child soldiers, armed with Panzerfaust rockets and Mauser rifles, march along Bankowa Street in Lubań (Lauban), Lower Silesia, March 1945.

 

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Luchus #41-34 abandoned or destroyed by crew near Argentan - Gacé, France in August 1944

 

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KMS Tirpitz was completed by February 1941, with great hopes of making a binome with her sister-ship Bismarck. But during this period, the RAF raided the shipyard. They missed Tirpitz but badly damaged everything around and considerably slowed down the completion work. Commissioned on 25 February for sea trials in the Baltic she was stationed in Kiel and returned training in the Baltic in March to May. Its first mission was to patrol the Aaland Islands until 26 September 1941.
When there was no proof the Soviet Navy would make any breakthrough and the rapid advances of the German Army, it was understood the Luftwafe would deal with Leningrad, which was besieged. She tested her primary and secondary guns on a moving targer, the old converted battleship Hessen as a radio-controlled target ship. In May previously, Bismarck had been sunk, so there were less hopes of mounting an atlantic surface raiding mission again. Instead, Norwway looked les exposed and risky, while more effective now the allies started to supply the Soviet Army through the "northern road"; The battleship would from then on spend most of her career and end there as the "solitary queen of the north" as nicknamed by the Norwegians.
- Naval Encyclopedia

 

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Members of the 7th SS division killing Serbian civilians during Operation Kopaonik on October 1942.

 

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April 1945: a member of the Volkssturm armed with a Panzerschreck outside Berlin

 

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Tiger Is of the 2. SS-Panzerdivision "Das Reich" on the march in the Kursk Bulge, July 1943.