Photos WW2 German Forces

[Redav]

Funeral procession of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, 7 June 1942.

 

[Redav]

One Day before operation Anthropoid Reinhard Heydrich attends 'Prague Music Week' with his wife, Lina Heydrich, at the Waldstein Palace, Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 26 May 1942.

 

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Saint-Nazaire, Reich Minister Dr. Todt, as head of the O.T., hands over the first bunker buildings to their intended purpose.

 

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Saint-Nazaire, Reich Minister Dr. Todt, as head of the O.T., hands over the first bunker buildings to their intended purpose.View attachment 530173

U-boat pens I believe.

 

[BravoZulu]

A 8.8 cm FlaK crew insert rounds into the gun's fuse setter. These guns had automatic fuse setters (Zünderstellbecher) for the ammunition.

 

[Redav]

Paris?
The guy on the left looks like an hotel consierge.

 

[BravoZulu]

Paris?
The guy on the left looks like an hotel consierge.
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A sentry in front of the Grand Hotel in Nuremberg. 10th Sept 1936

 

[BravoZulu]

A Messerschmitt Bf.109 painted black in flight due to oil leaking from a damaged engine

 

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A pair of Focke-Wulf Fw. 190 fighters fly along the coast. December 1943

 

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German soldiers in a military ceremony in France (1941).

 

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Rommel with italian officers

 

[Newtonk]

Paris?
The guy on the left looks like an hotel consierge.
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It looks like the little guy is about to break into a haka...

 

[BravoZulu]

Fieseler Fi 156 Storch from III-JG27

 

[BravoZulu]

Late production SdKfz 164 tank destroyer Nashorn somewhere on the eastern front. The crew observe their surroundings for possible enemy targets. The Nashorn is positioned between the two wooden houses which serve as makeshift camouflage. This vehicle belongs to s.Pz.Jg.Ab 519’s commanding Kompanie

 

[BravoZulu]

Messerschmitt Bf. 110C from the 1st Group of the Heavy Fighter Squadron ZG 2 (I./ZG2) at the start during the French Campaign. 1940

 

[Redav]

Scharnhorst Class Battleship Gneisenau pictured fitting out at Deutsche Werke Kiel AG Shipyards, Kiel c 1938.

 

[BravoZulu]

Wehrmacht troops enter the burning suburbs of Stalingrad, passing a group of Red Army prisoners carrying a wounded comrade. It will be the furthest the Axis will ever advance.

Stukas over Stalingrad; their attacks are merciless and apocalyptic. On August 23, over 1,000 Luftwaffe aircraft reduce Stalingrad to rubble; 40,000 civilians die in the inferno.

A German artillery crew fires a 105mm howitzer. The famous grain elevator and silo stands in the distance, which, like Pavlov's House, 50 Red Army soldiers turn into a fortress.

Infantry and a StuG III assault gun under fire near Barrikady factory. In Stalingrad's urban confines, the Wehrmacht forfeits its advantages in maneuver and airpower

 

[BravoZulu]

Stalingrad:
German infantry and an assault gun in street fighting. Inexperienced in this type of war, the Wehrmacht confronts concealed snipers by day and dagger-wielding Siberians at night

German infantry and an assault gun in action in the ruins of a factory workshop. The fighting is close-quarters and vicious: pistols, blades, and shovels become favoured weapons

German soldiers take cover under piles of steel in the Red October Factory, just across from their Soviet enemies. Positions change hands multiple times a day

Soldiers navigate the debris-strewn streets of the industrial district. The brutal urban warfare has bled Sixth Army white

 

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Panzer IVD No.711 destroyed in battle of Stonne with crew's tomb, May 1940

 

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StuG III from 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and a burning T-34. A German soldier has been killed when trying to use AT mine against T-34, Jul 1941