Showing posts with label Country Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Country Ukraine. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Luftwaffe Officers at Feldkommandostelle "Steinbruch"

1942-1943: One side of a stereograph of Luftwaffe officials at a German Air Force headquarters location in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Original caption in German reads: "Im fahrbaren und somit schnell beweglichen Hauptquartier der Luftwaffe werden die Operationen der Luftverbände geleitet" (In the mobile and thus rapidly moving headquarters of the Air Force, the operations of the combined Luftwaffe staffs are conducted). Hermann Göring's Feldkommandostelle "Steinbruch" was built during the same time when the "Werwolf" complex was built. It was blown up in 1944 by retreating German forces. Parts of the large bunker that stood here can be found in the forest north of the village of Hulivtsi (near Kordeliwka and close to the Luftwaffe airfield in Kalinowka – Google Earth: 49°29'51.85"N – 28°35'51.54"E). The complex was once attacked by a group of partisans, led by general Naumova, in February 1943.


Source :
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1180077
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/64587/Remains-Headquarters-Hermann-G%F6ring-Steinbruch.htm

Monday, October 31, 2016

Great Display of Firepower by LSSAH

Great display of firepower from the soldiers of Leibstandarte Division along fenced area of a Ukrainian farmhouse during Operation Barbarossa in 1941. If the sniper fire is not adequate, a few bursts from the MG 34 machine gun will suppress any enemy activity.


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http://5sswiking.tumblr.com/post/147862177882/great-display-of-firepower-from-the-soldiers-of

War Crime of Soviet NKVD

A member of the Leibstandarte Division photographed with a distraught crowd of women after seeing the piles of corpses of murdered people by NKVD in Lviv, late June 1941. From 22 June 1941 to 28 June 1941 before the German advance arrived, the Soviet NKVD brutally massacred over 4,000 of Ukrainian and Polish civilians and political prisoners in the city of Lviv. The NKVD committed many massacres in Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and other parts of the Soviet Union from which the Red Army was retreating in 1941.


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http://5sswiking.tumblr.com/post/147866015232/a-member-of-the-leibstandarte-division

SS Wiking Officers

    Wiking Division officers at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in Ukraine, 1941. The man in the foreground is an SS-Hauptsturmführer, while on his right is an SS-Obersturmführer.


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http://5sswiking.tumblr.com/post/147908936532/5sswiking-wiking-division-officers-at-the

Saturday, May 14, 2016

German and Italian Officers in the Ukrainian Church

Fascist Italian Army officers (left) and a German Wehrmacht Gebirgsjäger (alpine soldier, right) officer stand in front of the battle-scarred Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin in the town of Staromykhailivka as inquisitive local children look on from behind. Staromykhailivka and the surrounding region would become part of Reichskommissariat Ukraine in September 1941; a German civilian administration created for the pacification of the region and the exploitation of its resources and people for German benefit. Staromykhailivka, Stalino Oblast (now, Donetsk Oblast), Ukraine, Soviet Union. October 1941.


Source :
http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/141452565105/fascist-italian-army-officers-left-and-a-german