Photos WW2 German Forces

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Panzer I As advance in a mechanized column past smoking men and officers, Poland, 11 September 1939

 

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Spanish members of the "Blue Division" aboard a raft on the Eastern Front

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German Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun mounted on top of a flak tower, Germany, 1943

 

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Captured Panther, Tiger II, Jagdtiger and another Tiger II somewhere in Germany at the end of the war

 

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Admiral Hipper loading mountain troops in Cuxhaven, April 1940

28th May, 1943. German submarine Type VIIC, U-755, suffers a direct hit from a rocket projectile, while under attack in the Mediterranean Sea north-west of Mallorca from Lockheed Hudson Mark V, AM725 'M', of No. 608 Squadron RAF based at Blida, Algeria. U-755, already damaged as a result of another air attack two days previously, sank in nine minutes with the loss of 40 lives, the first occasion on which a submarine was destroyed by rockets.

 

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Grenadier in winter camouflage manning an MG34 during the Battle of Narva, Estonia 1944

 

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Joint wreath-laying ceremony conducted by German and Polish high-ranked officers in Warsaw in 1939, several months before Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

H.Himmler during visit in Poland.

 

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German forces in the Battle of the Bulge

 

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S-boat S-100 class and her bow 20 mm gun while operating in the English Channel, looking the 2cm Flak 38 gun towards the fully armoured bridge section (Kalottenbrücke) which was introduced with S-100.

 

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Infantry and a Panzer III advance in Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa, 1941

 

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Infantry and a Panzer III advance across the Russian steppe in the opening phases of Operation Barbarossa, 1941

Who the hell writes these captions. this is about as close to Russia steps as I'm from San Francisco to Canadian border

 

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A series of pics from a Wehrmacht rehabilitation facility in 1942.

 

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Who the hell writes these captions. this is about as close to Russia steps as I'm from San Francisco to Canadian border

Dunno mate, but the same caption is on several different sites that I checked, I couldn't find anything stating otherwise and I'll happily stand corrected

 

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Dunno mate, but the same caption is on several different sites that I checked, I couldn't find anything stating otherwise and I'll happily stand corrected

Here is the cover from the Russian edition of Francois de Lannoy book "Panzers en Ukraine"