Monday, June 4, 2018

Kommando der Wachtruppe Parade through Brandenburg Gate

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The origin of the Großdeutschland Division was the Kommando der Wachtruppe (Command of the Guard Troop) in Berlin, and the infantry-train...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Armored vehicle of the Hitlerjugend Division in the Ruins of Caen

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A Sd.Kfz. 231 armored vehicle of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend" photographed in the ruins of Caen, Normandy, France ...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

SS-Standarte "Der Führer" Soldiers

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A group of enlisted men from the SS-Standarte "Der Führer". All wear the SS-VT (SS-Verfügungstruppe) pattern field cap and coll...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

SS-Verfügungstruppe on Winter Exercise

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A group of motorised troops from the SS-VT (SS-Verfügungstruppe) on winter exercises. Most wear the standard Greatcoat - or "Mantel...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

German Soldier Watching the Drawing of His Wife

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German soldier with his wife watching the drawing of the wife. He is wearing the chevron sleeve for Obergefreiter rank. Translated as ...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

SS Soldiers in France

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German soldier from SS-Standarte "Der Führer" / SS-Division-Verfügungstruppe (motorisiert) in France in 1940. He wore a stahlhe...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

German Soldier Washes a Civilian Car Impressed into Wehrmacht Service

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A German soldier in Westende, Belgium, washes a 1937 Opel Super 6 cabriolet by the coachbuilder Hebmüller, civilian car impressed into Ge...
Monday, February 26, 2018

“Hallo, wie geht’s?” Emblem of U-93

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This photo of U-93 was taken in December 1940 shortly before the “Hallo, wie geht’s?” (Hello, how’s it going?) emblem was replaced by the...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Unteroffizier Gerhard Proske from Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54)

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This picture show one of the pilots who flew in the shadows of the aces. He is Unteroffizier Gerhard Proske of 1.Staffel / Jagdgeschwad...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

DKiGträger Hauptmann Walter Schaefer-Kehnert

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Hauptmann der Reserve Walter Schaefer-Kehnert (born 1918) received Deutsches Kreuz in Gold in 5 December 1943 as Hauptmann der Reserve an...
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Monday, October 2, 2017

Danish SS-Untersturmführer Ellef Henry Rasmussen

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Danish SS-Untersturmführer Ellef Henry Rasmussen photographed in 1944 on the Narva front, Estonia, just after graduating from SS-Junkersc...
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Monday, April 10, 2017

Oberleutnant Richard Grimm in Stalingrad

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Oberleutnant Richard Grimm, one of the company commander from Pionier-Bataillon 305 / 305.Infanterie-Division, at Goroditsche, 13 October...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Reichswehr Artillery Team

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A gun team mans a 7.5cm Feldkanone (field gun) NA, during a pre-war Reichswehr exercise. Although the light artillery piece was used in W...

Reichswehr MG Crew During Manoeuvre

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Soldiers of the Reichswehr man a Maschinengewehr (MG) 08/15, during an exercise in the interwar years. The largescale introduction of the...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

German Soldier Otto Lanz with his Family

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German soldier Otto Lanz with his family. Otto Lanz of the 305. Infanterie-Division wrote in one of his field post letters before he went...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Great Display of Firepower by LSSAH

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Great display of firepower from the soldiers of Leibstandarte Division along fenced area of a Ukrainian farmhouse during Operation Barb...

War Crime of Soviet NKVD

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A member of the Leibstandarte Division photographed with a distraught crowd of women after seeing the piles of corpses of murdered people...

SS Wiking Officers

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    Wiking Division officers at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in Ukraine, 1941. The man in the foreground is an SS-Hauptsturmführ...

The Greatest Fighter Ace in the World

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    During the Second World War, one German Luftwaffe pilot compiled a combat record so remarkable that he earned the distinction of beco...

SS Car Passing Russian POWs

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A Kfz. 15 medium cross-country personnel carrier from the Das Reich Division move past Red Army prisoners during Operation Barbarossa, ar...