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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Luftwaffe Officers at Feldkommandostelle "Steinbruch"

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1942-1943: One side of a stereograph of Luftwaffe officials at a German Air Force headquarters location in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Original ca...
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Monday, January 28, 2019

Pioneers Carrying an Extended Charge

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Two Heer pioneers rush forward in training carrying an extended charge (Gestreckteladung) as their Unteroffizier looks on. This consisted...

Crossing a Pontoon Bridge at Night

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Crossing a pontoon bridge at night, under the supervision of the Pioniere during an exercise (note the coloured bands on helmets and caps...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Inflatable Boats are Loaded with Troops

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5.5m medium inflatable boats are loaded with German troops. It was these boats that were paddled across countless rivers to secure the fa...

Corduroy Road in the Frontline

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A completed corduroy road made by the German pioniertruppen was often settled in by running a tank or other heavy vehicle down it before ...

German Infantry Crossing the River

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Improvisation and ingenuity were characteristic of the German Pioniere, even though their makeshift solutions could not always be fully a...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Kriegsmarine Land Quarters

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Many naval quarters on land were only a little less cramped than conditions on board ships. During training periods, each man was usually...

Fun at Wilhelmshaven Naval Barracks

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The Reichsmarine barracks in Wilhelmshaven around the time when Hitler came to power.‘Lord Muck’, lounging on the chair and being serenad...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Leutnant Wolfgang Stein in Stalingrad

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Leutnant Wolfgang E. F. Stein, commander of the 2.Kompanie / Pionier-Bataillon 635, remembers his experience in Stalingrad during the bat...

Helmut Walz Describes His Experience in Stalingrad

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The fights at Stalingrad that the German 305. Infanterie-Division entered on 14 October 1942 were heavy and costly. At first they were f...
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...