Monday, April 22, 2019

Young Platoon Commanders from Pionier-Bataillon 25

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Four young Zugführer (Platoon Commanders) from Pionier-Bataillon 25, pictured in the summer of 1942. From left to right: Leutnant Emil Gr...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Wehrmacht Soldiers Pose with Abandoned Soviet Tank

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Men of Pionier-Bataillon 45 pose atop one of the many Soviet tanks that littered the vast battlefield west of Kalach, summer of 1942. “We...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Oberst Herbert Selle

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Oberst Herbert Selle (Armeepionierführer 6. Armee in Stalingrad) is a colorful and very interesting character (see also his Wikipedia ent...
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Saturday, March 30, 2019

German POWs Reaction to Holocaust Film

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The immediate reaction of German Prisoners of war upon being forced by the US Army to watch to the uncensored footage of the concentratio...
Friday, February 15, 2019

SS General Jakob Sporrenburg

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Jakob Sporrenburg was born the son of a gardener in Düsseldorf on September 16, 1902. He lost a brother killed and one seriously wounded ...

SS General Hans-Adolf Prützmann

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Hans-Adolf Prützmann was born on August 31, 1901, in Tollkemit, East Prussia. He worked as a farmer and entered local politics, serving a...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

U-995 Crew Now and Then

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Surviving U-995 crew, now and then. German submarine U-995 is a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was laid down...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

German Actor and a Luftwaffe Pilot Hannes Stelzer

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This is a movie picture of the Austrian actor Hannes Stelzer (1910-1944). He played a highly decorated war pilot hero in the 1941 movie ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

German Soldiers Surrender at Vilnius

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German soldiers surrender to the Red Army in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, 11 July 1944. The picture was taken by Fyodor Kislov....
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Russian Sniper Captured by the SS

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Soviet Union, 1942: Waffen-SS soldiers captured a Russian sniper and dragged him from his hole (one of them smashes his rifle). There is ...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

A Pack-Mule Unit Takes a Much Needed Respite

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The arduous terrain in which the German Gebirgsjäger (mountain troops) advanced into Poland in September 1939 can well be imagined and, a...

Gebirgsjäger Cleaning Their Weapons

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German Gebirgsjäger (Mountain troops) have occupied a village somewhere in southern Poland in September 1939, and are seen cleaning their...
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...