Photos WW2 German Forces

[Newtonk]

Could also go in the colorized thread,

 

[SamWell]

Battle at the outskirts of Kiev,during first german attempt to take the city

 

[Redav]

U-46 of Engelbert Endrass and U-47 of Günther Prien in the harbor, both Type VII B

 

[uktabber]

Reading a book about Prien & subwar right now......interesting

 

[Newtonk]

Reading a book about Prien & subwar right now......interesting

Yep, I read Iron Coffins, https://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Iron-Coffins-Herbert-A-Werner/9780304353309, the attrition rate was horrendous.

 

[BravoZulu]

Prisoners being led back past a wrecked PzKw V Panther in the St Lo area of France. Robert Capa

 

[BravoZulu]

24th March 1945: German soldiers and civilians who were in a farmhouse when it was shelled, hugging the ground to protect themselves. (Photo by Robert Capa)

 

[Newtonk]

Prisoners being led back past a wrecked Tiger Tank in the St Lo area of France. Robert Capa
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Ah, sorry to correct you, Bravo Zulu, that's a Panther tank with 75mm main gun & curved mantle.

 

[BravoZulu]

Ah, sorry to correct you, Bravo Zulu, that's a Panther tank with 75mm main gun & curved mantle.

Thanks mate, I didn't check the image properly and went with the caption.

 

[Redav]

Bismarck Invoice from Blohm & Voss............

 

[Redav]

U-443 (VIIC) and U-119 (XB)

You can see the difference in the two submarines

 

[Bombardier]

Tiger I from s.Pz. Abt. 509 and Panzer Crewman in early April 1944 in the Tarnopol Region in the Ukraine

 

[Redav]

Type II U-boats from a training flotilla
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[Redav]

At sunset, sailors relax on the stern of the German battleship Scharnhorst. The photographer is straddling barrel three of 28cm turret Caesar.

 

[Redav]

Two german submarines in Mar del Plata, Argentina - U-530 and U-977

 

[BravoZulu]

Two german submarines in Mar del Plata, Argentina - U-530 and U-977

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U-530 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg on 8 December 1941 as yard number 345, launched on 28 July 1942 and commissioned on 14 October 1942 with Kapitänleutnant Kurt Lange in command, who led her in six patrols. Lange was replaced in January 1945 by Oberleutnant zur See Otto Wermuth, who led her escape to Argentina after Germany's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to legends, apocryphal stories and conspiracy theories that it and U-977, which surrendered on 17 August, had transported escaping Nazi leaders (such as Adolf Hitler) and/or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a secret voyage to Antarctica, and even that it sank the Brazilian cruiser Bahia as the last act of the Battle of the Atlantic. Later investigations led by the U.S. and Brazilian Navies proved that the cruiser was sunk in an accident with depth charges during exercises.

U-977 was a World War II Type VIIC U-boat which escaped to Argentina after Germany's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to legends, apocryphal stories and conspiracy theories that it and U-530 had transported escaping Nazi leaders (such as Adolf Hitler) and/or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a secret voyage to Antarctica, and even that it sank the Brazilian cruiser Bahia as the last act of the Battle of the Atlantic.

After surrendering to the Argentine authorities, as had happened to the crew of U-530, they were extradited to the US where they responded to the charge of having torpedoed the cruiser Bahia, and then to the UK, where they faced accusations that they had landed Nazi leaders in Argentina before surrendering. Schäffer was released in 1947. U-977 like U-530 was seized by the US Navy, and sunk during naval firing exercises, in its case in 1946, when it was used as a target. U-977 was a training boat and made no war patrols

 

[Redav]

This is Kurt Knispel, a German Feldwebel of the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, cutt of from any hope of rescue, outnumbered, and dangerously low on ammunition, ready to make the last standing on Stalingrad in November 1942.

 

[BravoZulu]

This is Kurt Knispel, a German Feldwebel of the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, cutt of from any hope of rescue, outnumbered, and dangerously low on ammunition, ready to make the last standing on Stalingrad in November 1942.
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Knispel was severely wounded on 28 April 1945 by shrapnel to his head when his Tiger II was hit in battle by Soviet tanks. He died two hours later in a German field hospital.

On 10 April 2013, Czech authorities said that Knispel's remains were found with 15 other German soldiers behind a church wall in Vrbovec, identified by his dog tags.

On 12 November 2014, the German War Graves Commission reburied his remains at the Central Brno military cemetery in Brno. He was buried with 41 other German soldiers who died in Moravia and Silesia