Panzerjäger Leutnant Arrested by the Canadians

 

A well decorated German Leutnant, member of Panzerjäger (Tank Hunter) unit, arrested by the Canadian army on 13 April 1945 in Netherlands. He have the Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse ribbon in his lapel, while in his uniform is pinned Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse, Allgemeines-Sturmabzeichen and Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber. He is also wearing the Kuban Shield in his sleeve.

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German Generals Member of Anti-Nazi BDO - NKFD

 

 

8 December 8th 1944: Co-signer of the appeal 'To the people and the Wehrmacht' of the Bundes Deutscher Offiziere (BDO, Federation of German Officers) in the National Committee "Freies Deutschland" (NKFD, Free Germany). It was a German anti-Nazi organization that operated in the Soviet Union during World War II, with members mostly came from German officers and generals in captivity. The identification (with their last rank and position) as follow:

1.Generalleutnant Vincenz Müller (Kommandierender General XII. Armeekorps)
2.Generalmajor Joachim Engel (Kommandeur 45. Infanterie-Division)
3.Generalleutnant Hans Traut (Kommandeur 78. Sturm-Division)
4.Generalmajor Günther Klammt (Kommandeur 260. Infanterie-Division)
5.Generalmajor Alexander Conrady (Kommandeur 36. Infanterie-Division)
6.Generalmajor Herbert Michaelis (Kommandeur 95. Infanterie-Division)
7.Generalmajor Friedrich-Carl von Steinkeller (Kommandeur Panzergrenadier-Division "Feldherrnhalle")
8.Generalmajor Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff (Kommandeur "Festung Mogilev")
9.General der Infanterie Friedrich Gollwitzer (Kommandierender General LIII. Armeekorps)
10.Generalleutnant Rudolf Bamler (Kommandeur 12. Infanterie-Division)
11.Generalmajor Claus Mueller-Bülow (Kommandeur 246. Infanterie-Division)
12.Generalmajor Adolf Trowitz (Kommandeur 57. Infanterie-Division)
13.Generalmajor Aurel Schmidt (Höherer Pionierführer 10 / 9.Armee)
14.General der Infanterie Paul Völckers (Kommandierender General XXVII.Armeekorps)
15.Generalleutnant Kurt-Jürgen Freiherr von Lützow (Kommandierender General XXXV. Armeekorps)

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Photo and ID courtesy of Graveland
https://en.topwar.ru/171615-svobodnaja-germanija-gitlerovcy-protiv-fjurera.html

First Axis POWs at Tobruk

 

Men of the Australian 9th Infantry Division guard Italians and some of the first German prisoners to be taken during the war in North Africa, after Rommel's first unsuccessful assault on Tobruk, 17 April 1941. If we are talking about Heer Division, it was the 5. leitche-Division during the 1st Siege of Tobruk that was on 10-14 April 1941. However, on the 2nd Siege of Tobruk from 30 April to 7 May 1941 it was a mix between the elements of the 5.leichte-Division and the newly arrived 15. Panzer-Division (except for Panzer-Regiment 8 that was not involved yet). BTW, if someone asking: Why are their heads bowed? It is actually a basic techniek of not to look your captors in their eyes, state only your name and number. Look what happened at Malmedy: at the Nuremberg Trials the SS Soldiers stated in their defense that the American POW’s looked at them tauntingly almost staring them down ... we all know how that ended for the Americans!

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4981605118546865&set=gm.2563691697254982
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205205791

German POWs Watching US Vehicles in Autobahn

Germany, April 1945. Wehrmacht prisoners (officers and NCOs) seated on the long embankment of an "Autobahn", while watching a column of US vehicles pass by, advancing further to Germany.

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SS POWs Guarded by US Soldiers

German Waffen-SS Prisoners, mostly wounded, are guarded by US soldiers in a village square.

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/41818881@N06/

German POWs Reaction to Holocaust Film

The immediate reaction of German Prisoners of war upon being forced by the US Army to watch to the uncensored footage of the concentration camps shot by the US Signal Corps, 1945. After the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, films of the atrocities of the Holocaust were shown to the prisoners, which engendered shock, anger, and disbelief; amazed and disbelieving prisoners nicknamed them knocken films (films of bones). After compulsory viewing of an atrocity film, 1,000 prisoners at Camp Butner dramatically burned their German uniforms while a few prisoners even volunteered to fight in the war against Japan (the idea however was dropped by the American military). This forced process itself was part of the Allied policy of postwar denazification, meant to purge Germany of the remnants of Nazi rule and rebuild its civil society, infrastructure, and economy.

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https://www.checkhookboxing.com/index.php?threads/eerie-creepy-photos-updated-the-story-behind-the-japanese-samurai-sword-assassination-photo.40853/page-96
http://www.historyinorbit.com/rare-historic-photos-n/13

German Prisoners Captured Near Leningrad

A column of German POWs captured near Leningrad are marched through the ruins of a small village as Russian civilians look on. Approximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during the war, most of them during the great advances of the Soviet forces in the last year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post war reconstruction. According to Soviet records 381,067 German Wehrmacht soldiers died in Soviet labor camps (356,700 German nationals and 24,367 from other nations). Other sources put this number at close to one million. By 1950, five years after the war, most of the surviving German POWs were released. The last remaining German POWs in Soviet custody were released in 1956, eleven years after the end of the war. Near Leningrad (now, Saint Petersburg), Leningrad Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. December 1942. Image taken by Simon Friedland.

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http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/130655411180/a-column-of-german-pows-captured-near-leningrad

Luftwaffe Prisoners Taken in a Jeep

 Two German Luftwaffe Unteroffizieren (Corporals) are photographed on the hood of an American-made Willys MB jeep after being taken as POWs by Dutch soldiers of the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade (Prinses Irene Brigade) in neighboring Belgium. Near Beringen, Limburg, Belgium. September 1944.

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http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/131443691765/two-german-luftwaffe-unteroffizieren-corporals

German Prisoner and US Soldier at the Battle of the Bulge

A U.S. Army soldier takes a German soldier as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge; a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. The surprise attack by the Germans caught the Allied forces completely off guard. The U.S. forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany’s armored forces on the western front, rendering Germany largely unable to replace them as the Soviets launched an offensive days earlier in the East. Near Bastogne, Luxembourg Province, Belgium. 23-26 December 1944. Image taken by Robert Capa.

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German Prisoners After the Liberation of Maastricht

A U.S. Army soldier with his M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle leads surrendered German soldiers to a POW collection area following the liberation of Maastricht. Maastricht was the first Dutch city to be liberated by Allied forces and the nearby village of Margraten would become the home of the Netherlands American Cemetery, the only U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands, where 8,301 U.S. soldiers who were killed in combat are buried. Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands. September 1944.

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http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/140814451235/a-us-army-soldier-with-his-m1-garand

Young French Woman with German Soldier

A young French woman, who began a romantic relationship with a German Wehrmacht soldier during the German occupation of France, refuses to leave his side as he and other German soldiers were taken as prisoners after the Allies had liberated the area around Orléans. Near Orléans, Loiret, France. August 1944.

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 http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/141508924635/a-young-french-woman-who-began-a-romantic

German Pilot Rides into Captivity in US Jeep

 A German Pilot rides into captivity after his plane, from which he was strafing American positions near Weisweiler, was brought down by anti-aircraft fire out of a formation of 25 Luftwaffe aircraft during Operation Queen. The operation was aimed against the Rur river, as a staging point for a subsequent thrust over the river to the Rhine into Germany. It was conducted by the 1st and 9th U.S. Armies and was a German defensive victory. Weisweiler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 9 December 1944.

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http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/142814969600/a-german-pilot-rides-into-captivity-after-his