Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Gebirgs Motorcyclists Crossing the River

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Two motorcyclists, wearing their distinctive rubberised coats, wade across a stream during a Gebirgs units drive through southern Poland,...

Gebirgsjäger in a Rubber Boat

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German Mountain troops (Gebirgsjäger) are seen paddling across a river in a pneumatic boat during invasion of Poland, 1939. These 18 feet...

Civilian Carts of 1. Gebirgs-Division

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Two photographs taken in sequence showing local civilian carts pressed into service and being used by Gebirgstruppen of the 1. Gebirgs-...
Friday, November 30, 2018

U-128 on its Fourth Patrol

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U-128, a Type IX C u-boat, was an extremely successful submarine attached to the 2. Unterseebootsflottille (2nd Submarine Flotilla) in Lo...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Two Luftwaffe Instructors with Their Charges During Training

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Two Luftwaffe instructors with their charges during initial training. The recruits are wearing white denim clothing, which was popular ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Bio Karl Wolff

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Karl Wolff is second from the left in this 1941 photo taken in Russia. On the far left is Hermann Fegelein (then commander of the SS Kava...
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Monday, November 19, 2018

U-Boat Commander Hans Hellmann

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Oberleutnant zur See Hans Hellmann was born on 8 March 1921 near the Polsih border, became a U-boat commander, and was murdered in Bremen...
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...