Friday, May 31, 2019

Wehrmacht Dispatch Rider

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A Wehrmacht Kradmelder (motorcycle dispatch rider) wearing stahlhelm, goggles, rubbercoat and gas mask cannister. The German military was...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

French Wehrmacht Volunteers in a Captured Russian Town

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Two soldiers of the 'Legion des volontaires francais' in a conquered town on the Eastern Front, late autumn 1941. Photograph by A...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

German Soldiers Wearing Russian Telogreika/Vatnik

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German soldiers wearing captured telogreika. Telogreika (Russian: "body warmer") or vatnik is a Russian kind of warm cotton woo...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Waffen-SS Commander Sylvester Stadler

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 An Austrian, like many of the brave soldiers of the Waffen-SS, Sylvester Stadler (30 December 1910 – 23 August 1995) was born in the...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

British Air Chief Marshal Sir J.M. Robb

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Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb, GCB, KBE, DSO, DFC, AFC (26 January 1895 – 18 December 1968) was a senior Royal Air Force command...
Monday, May 20, 2019

SS-Totenkopf Commander Theodor Eicke

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SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Theodor Eicke participated in World War I as a paymaster. He later joined the ...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Bio of General der Artillerie Walter Warlimont

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General der Artillerie Walter Warlimont, the son of a publisher, was born in Osnabrück, Germany, on 3 October 1894. An artillery cadet,...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Hitler's Adjutant Otto Günsche

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SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche was born on 24 September 1917 in Jena. He was an early volunteer in the “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler...

Indian Legion Training

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Possibly this is the only color photo that shows member of the Legion Freies Indien (Free Indian Legion) of the Wehrmacht! This photo is ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Spectators at the 9th Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg

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The 9th Reichsparteitag event was held in Nuremberg from 6-13 September 1937. The three people on the left standing on the podium were,...
Monday, May 13, 2019

General der Nachrichtentruppe Erich Fellgiebel

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General der Nachrichtentruppe Erich Fellgiebel (4 October 1886 - 4 September 1944) began his military career in September 1905 as a cadet...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Panzer IV Maintenance in the Snow

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A Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.F1, wearing it's standard grey paint scheme, is getting help with a broken track on the right side. Rust o...

Russian Tank Crew Surrender to SS Soldier

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The crew of a Russian T-34 tank stuck in the mud surrendered to an NCO from SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Wiking" during the 194...
Monday, May 6, 2019

German Prisoners from Normandy

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Some of the 1,096 German prisoners of war who have arrived on HM Landing Ship Tank (LST-165) at Gosport, Hampshire, June 1944. This is th...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

General John Crocker in France 1944

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Lieutenant General John Crocker, Commander of 1st Corps, in France, August 1944. Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (4 Januar...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner

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    Felix Steiner – not only the most important single influence behind the development of the dynamic tactical theories adopted by...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Otto Skorzeny being Interrogated after Surrender

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SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny being interrogated by U.S. officers on May 1945. Skorzeny was interned for two years before being tr...
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Monday, April 22, 2019

SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny

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      SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny (12 June 1908 - 5 July 1975) was an extraordinary military man who specialized in guerr...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

German Tank Crew Loading Shells

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German tank crews from Panzer-Regiment 15 / 11.Panzer-Division "Gespenster Division" loading shells in their tank, a Panzerka...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Vizeadmiral Hans-Erich Voss

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Hans-Erich Voss (30 October 1897 – 18 November 1969) was a German Vizeadmiral (vice admiral) and one of the final occupants of the Führer...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Luftwaffe Dispatch Rider with His Motorcycle

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Dispatch rider from a Luftwaffe Field Division stands next to his DKW NZ250 krad, and note the early all leather motorcyclist glove. Be...
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Saturday, February 16, 2019

Pałac Prezydencki (Presidential Palace) in Warsaw

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Pałac Prezydencki (Presidential Palace) in Warsaw, 1940. It is the elegant classicist latest version of a building that has stood on the ...
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Plac Bankowy (Bank Square) in central Warsaw

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Plac Bankowy (Bank Square) in central Warsaw. It is one of the city's principal squares. Located downtown, adjacent to the Saxon Ga...
Friday, February 15, 2019

German Sentry in the Freezing Russian Winter

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German infantry soldier as in winter outfit performing his duty as a sentry in the freezing cold of Russian winter, 1941/42. He is we...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Wehrmacht Funeral on the Eastern Front

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After the first major German losses in the Eastern Front in 1941, divisional cemeteries were set up behind the front lines. Here the dead...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Harry Crerar and Tommy Burns in Italy

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Two of the Canadian Army’s prominent intellectuals from the inter-war years, from left to right: Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) H.D...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Discarded Artillery Shell in Smolensk

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A view of the town of Smolensk in Russia. A pile of discarded wicker artillery shell packing cases and ammunition boxes. Based on their t...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

German Soldier with His Horse in the Winter of 1941/42

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German Wehrmacht soldier with his horse on the Eastern Front, winter of 1941/42. The winter of 1941 produced the greatest crisis. Horse l...
Friday, February 8, 2019

German Soldier with Captured Soviet Rifle

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German soldier with captured SVT-40 Soviet rifle. It is well known that the SVT-40 was a prized war trophy amongst the German troops, esp...

SS-Kriegsberichter Franz Roth

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SS-Untersturmführer and SS-Kriegsberichter Franz Seraphicus Roth (5 April 1911 – 17 March 1943) was an Austrian photographer who worked a...