Photos WW2 German Forces

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Abandoned Sdkfz 251/9 "Stummel" and Sdkfz 234/3 "Stummel" in the Halbe Pocket, Germany. April 1945

 

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MG 34 and crew on the Eastern Front, circa 1943

 

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Minelayer in port in the Aegean Sea, August 1943

 

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Sailors keep watch from the conning tower of a U-boat, 28 September 1942

 

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POWs 6 June 1944, Queen beach, Sword area

 

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Bicycle infantry in the city of Kharkov, Ukraine, Summer 1942

 

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Battle of Crete. 20 May – 1 June 1941. A donkey is used to help a wounded German Fallschirmjäger off the battlefield.

 

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Soldiers equipped with Splittertarn camouflage smocks and gas masks during an exercise, circa 1942

 

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Wermacht Zündapp KS 600 and sidecar, left abandoned after taking heavy damage - 1944

 

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StuG rolls past a T-34/76 knocked out behind a house on the Eastern Front in 1943

 

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Luftwaffe airmen setting up an 8.8cm Flak near Kharkov, Ukraine, Soviet Union, 1943

 

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Sturmhaubitze 42, Ausf. G with 5 kill rings

 

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Disabled Tiger ‘223’ from Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 alongside a destroyed Soviet KV-1S, South of Lake Ladoga, September 1943

Tiger 1s from 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" in the Vinnytsia Region, Ukrainian SSR, November 1943.

 

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Tirpitz in Norway

 

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Those are a couple of rare photos of the brutal Oskar Dirlewanger who earned his reputation combatting partisans on the Eastern front, Poland and Belarus particularly:





Most likely the last photos of him alive here standing next to a French captain and a Morrocan tirailleurs… when in captivity. His final breath must have been under the severe beating of other or former polish POWs that eventually brained him.

As an anecdote, his men called him “Ghandi” probably because he was very thin and a joke because of his violent and unhinged character that was totally opposed to the Indian leader pacifist resistance.

 

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Bismarck

 

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Gneisenau in Kiel, may 1939.

 

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Tiger II №312 was commanded by SS-Oberscharführer Heinrich Ritter of 3./s.Pz.Abt.501. On 7 January 1945 it was knocked out near Goronne, Belgium at a range of 350 yards by an M36 Jackson of by Corporal Adam S. Kiwior of the 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion, which was aiding the 82nd Airborne Division

An artillery shell subsequently landed in the open turret of Kiwior's M36 TD, wounding him along with two other members of his crew, and killing the other two.

 

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A Wolfpack! U-boats U36, U30, U29, U28, U34, U 33 & U 35 (Type VII) in their berths at the Wilhelmshaven docks in 1940.

Photo: Authors own collection!

Colourisation - Nathan Howland @HowdiColourWorks

 

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A young German soldier inspects the wreck of Sherman Firefly Vc T2102203 "Chaser" of C squadron of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers knocked out near Authie in June 1944