Photos WW2 German Forces

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The wreckage of a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52 transport is visible at Gabes airfield in Tunisia as RAF transports move in to occupy the airfield the day after its capture - end of March 1943
Original Color Photograph

 

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A Jagdpanzer IV/70 (V) of the 116th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht waiting in the German town of Kleve (Niederrhein). Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, February-March 1945.

 

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Four german POWs Battle of Moscow, December 1941. Colorization

 

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German machine-gunner retreats from Zhytomyr

 

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Prisoners of "Bagration"

 

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Panzer III medium tanks at Kasserine Pass, Tunisia, Feb 1943.

 

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Bachem Ba 349 Natter, a vertical take-off point defense rocket interceptor. Autopiloted until in the bomber formations, no pilot skill required, pilot aims, fires rockets, nose detached, and pilot & capsule descend with parachute. None used in combat, 1st flight, March 1945

 

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BMW R-12 being towed behind a cart on the Eastern Front 1943.

 

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German "airslads"in 1941 during fighting on Soviet-Norwegian border in Arctic

 

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November 1941.Some soldiers from 163rd Infantry Division surrendering to soviet army

 

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Production line of Fiesler Fi 103 flying bombs at the Central Works, a vast underground production plant at Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains, Germany, following its capture by Allied troops.
Production of the V1s numbered 32,000; by March 1945, when the sites were finally overrun by the Allied armies, some 5,500 V1s, each carrying a one-ton warhead, had reached Britain.

 

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German soldier enjoying a cup of coffee after being captured. Normandy Coast, D-Day, 1944

 

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Colorization of a famous propaganda photo.The original description reads: “Women give gifts to our defenders who are about to be sent to the eastern front”.November of 1944

 

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The s.Pz.Abt.501 was issued their 45 King Tigers 25th July 1944. These were brand new June-July production tanks, but two weeks later only 8 could be made ready to fight at the Sandomierz bridgehead.

 

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A young German Soldier, recently taken prisoner, stares ahead while sitting on a church pew with his helmet in Coutances, Normandy - late July 1944

 

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A Panzer III rolls past the smouldering remains of another knocked out during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942

 

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Schwerer Panzerspähwagen Sd. Kfz. 231 (8-rad) knocked out near Zambrów in Poland in 1939

 

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Eastern Front, August 1941

 

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Repair of a Pz. Kpfw. III Ausf. G tank of the 13th Panzer Division near Zhitomir. August 1941

 

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Two Luftwaffe soldiers carrying MG 34 with a tripod, somewhere on the Eastern Front, 1943.