Showing posts with label Famous Photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous Photo. Show all posts

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Bosnian Mountain Troops Trains in the Mountain


Bosnian volunteer soldiers from the Kroatische SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division (later renamed 13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Handschar) conduct military training in the snowy mountains of Germany, before being deployed to their home, Balkan region. This photo was taken in the summer of 1943, with the original caption: "Leben sehen die Männer aus dem Süden Schneeberge im Sommer." (for the first time in their lives, these people from the South see snow-covered mountains in the summer!)

Source :
https://hindi.fansshare.com/community/uploads32/7110/ferid_d__ani__/?d=german.fansshare.com
https://oper-1974.livejournal.com/1453438.html

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Afrikakorps Soldiers with Sand Protector


Goggles, scarves and headdresses were indespensible for blocking sand and the sun, and for preventing sun strokes. The heat often caused mirages. The wind, named "ghibli" by the Italians, could blow at more than 150 km/hours and caused terrible sand-storm, which could last up to three days. The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Albrecht Heinrich Otto of PK (Propaganda-Kompanie) "Afrika" in April 1941.

Source :
"Deutsche Afrikakorps (1941-1943)" by Ricardo Recio Cardona
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-785-0285-14A,_Nordafrika,_Soldat_mit_Sandschutz.2.jpg

Sunday, July 26, 2020

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.

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

Thursday, January 14, 2016

SS Soldiers in the Ardennes Offensive

On 18 December 1944 during the Ardennes Offensive, very early in the morning, the American 14th Cavalry Group had gotten in an ambush of the Kampfgruppe Hansen (Leibstandarte Division) on the road between Poteau and Recht and was destroyed. These are photographs taken after the action along the wreckage on the road.

Famous Photo of SS Soldier in the Ardennes Offensive

Among the most famous of the photos taken by German military cameramen during the Ardennes Offensive, is this shot of a soldier from Kampfgruppe Hansen (Leibstandarte Division) posing for the camera, after the action with American 14th Cavalry Group on the road between Poteau and Recht, 18 December 1944.