2068 best r/germanww2photos images on Pholder | An Illustration from the German magazine Kladderadatsch, 1932. Translation: “The Negroizing of France in 100 years — The last non-colored Frenchmen are the main attraction of the Paris zoo.

An Illustration from the German magazine Kladderadatsch, 1932. Translation: “The Negroizing of France in 100 years — The last non-colored Frenchmen are the main attraction of the Paris zoo.

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Deutsche Reichsbahn Class 52, DBR 52, the most produced type of the so-called Kriegslokomotiven or Kriegsloks (war locomotives). Almost 7.800 were made starting in 1942 and extending into 1950. This is a restored example, Dresden, 2003.

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A German propaganda cameraman (right) carefully films around the corner to capture the street fighting in the city of Kharkov, March 1943.

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Fallschirmjager MG 42 team in action in Italy in 1943

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A Heer soldier stands guard over the coast, with a rainbow in the background. Possibly in Norway or Finland. Date Unknown.

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Soldiers from the German 101st Infantry Division escort captured Red Army commanders across the bridge over the San River in the border town of Przemysl, Poland, summer 1941.

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Focke Wulf Fw 190's of Oberstleutnant Kurt Kuhlmey's detachment at Immola, Finland, 2 July 1944

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Surviving Jagdtigers of s.Pz.Jag.Abt.512 surrender to the 6th Armored Division in Iserlohn in April 1945

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A Second World War German shell, filled with propaganda leaflets, that was recently found by metal detectorists in the St Petersburg region

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37mm Flak firing against ground targets in France in Summer 1944

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Ethnic Ukrainian troops of German 14th Waffen Grenadier Division with 5 cm PaK 38 gun, Mar 1944

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Royal Air Force procession escorts the remains of two German Luftwaffe Airmen, August Schleicher and Kurt Seydel. Edinburgh, Scotland. 21 October 1939.

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Bf 109 pilot with Jagdgeschwader 53 forces an RAF Spitfire to break off his attack on a Junkers Ju 88 bomber in the Mediterranean theater in 1942

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Two German Soldiers from the 1st Fallschirm-Panzer-Division Hermann Goring talk to a Romanian soldier during the defense of the Ploesti oil fields. Romania, 1941

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Lige goes on...Germany. 1946

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My grand father was at Leningrad. He told stories of being shelled by a ships gun that was removed and used on land. Looking for German units that used 88 guns at Leningrad.

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A Waffen SS soldier aiming a Mauser M712 Schnellfeuer somewhere on the Eastern Front in 1942.

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Stay tuned over the next few months, have dozens of new albums to share with this group

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Troops of the German Army Division 'Großdeutschland' with Gewehr 41 rifle and MG42 machine gun, Soviet Union, 1943-1944.

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Goebbels, Goring, Himmler, Bormann, Naumann and Kaltenbrunner at a home-front situation discussion in Berlin Propaganda ministry, June 9, 1944

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Hermann Goering consults with his lawyer, Dr. Otto Stahmer, in the Nuremberg prison in 1946.

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A group of Wehrmacht soldiers in a street fight in Stalingrad.

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Luftwaffe ace Josef Priller arrives in his BMW 327 for a sortie in his Focke-Wulf Fw-190.

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Heinz Harmel, Brigadefuhrer and Generalmajor der Waffen XX and commander of 10. XX-Panzer-Division Frundsberg with an MP44. Harmel surrendered to the Allied forces in Austria and ended up in British captivity. Harmel died in 2000.

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The Duke of Windsor (ex-Edward VIII) and Duchess meeting Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, 1937.

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Heated debate between Walter Ulbricht (KPD) and Goebbels (NSDAP). 1931

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German Army Oberleutnant Wilhelm Knauth in the turret of a Tiger I heavy tank, Russia, Jan-Feb 1944

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Sign Here begins the bottom of the world allegedly Eastern front.German soldiers showing their sense for biting humour and what they think about their new location

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German physician and SS officer Karl Brandt on trial for war crimes on August 20th 1947

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Three Schwarzlose Modell 1907/12 WW1 era machine guns discovered in Oderbruch ( landscape located at the Oder river in eastern Germany on the Polish border) that were left during the Battle of the Seelow Heights in 1945

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A soldier with a Panzerfaust from the Panzer Division Hermann Goring smiling to the camera, Russia, 1944. The Panzerfaust was a non-recoil anti-tank/vehicle weapon produced in Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Hitler and Goebbels laughing , 1943

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A mechanic performs maintenance under the rear of a 188 tonne Maus, supported by the enormous jack on the left. Date and location unknown

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6th Army Infantry on the march to Stalingrad. August 1942.

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A popular children's Christmas present, sold in Nazi Germany during WW2, was a board game called “Bomber over England”. Points were awarded for each place bombed. There were 100 points for hitting London, and 40 for Liverpool

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Signed photo of Gudrun Burwitz, daughter of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler. I found it going through boxes of old photos at a Flohmarkt in Berlin. Throughout her life she was actively involved in far-right circles and was a Nazi Apologist until the end.

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Family portrait of Reichel (from Erdmannsdorf in Saxony) with his wife and twelve children. The mother wears the Mother's Cross. Five sons are in the German Wehrmacht; The sixth is with the Reich Labor Service. The smaller children are all members of Nazi youth organizations. 13 August 1943.

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Meet Julius Erasmus, a former german soldier and combat engineer captain who retrieved and buried thousands of soldiers of all nationalities in the Hurtgenwald area following WWII

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SS Wanderer W-11 field car in downtown Amsterdam, 1940.

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Oberst Erich Hartmann, the most successful WW2 fighter ace with 352 aerial victories, pictured with Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Warren, participant in the Dieppe Raid and recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Oldenburg, West Germany, 1958.

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Hitler's sketches of potential nazi logos, from the Bavarian Finance Ministry

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A severely wounded French soldier desperately attempts to surrender to two German soldiers as they pass by - France 1940

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Immediately after the Munich agreement, the Duce, accompanied by the Fuhrer, went to the station to board his train for the return journey to Italy. Shortly before departure, a BDM girl presented the Duce with a bouquet of flowers. 30 September 1938.

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Michael Wittmann as a member of the 19th Infantry Regiment in 1935. Wittmann served one year in the Wehrmacht, then joined the SS in November 1936.

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This day in 1941, the Nederlandsche SS (Dutch SS) was formed. The selection was extremely strict, this was changed later on when losses mounted rapidly. It is estimated that between 22,000 and 25,000 Dutchmen enlisted in the Waffen-SS.

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German soldiers on top of the Berlin Zoo-Flakturm, April 16, 1942

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Member of the Turkestan Legion, date and location unknown

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Two German soldiers entrenched on the Eastern Front, 1942.

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German troops look out from Kiev Fortress towards a bridge across the Dnieper destroyed by retreating Soviet forces in August 1941

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November 1942. Hauptmann Friedrich Konrad Winkler (center) assigns a combat mission to the soldiers of the 305th Infantry Division in the vicinity of the Barricades Stalingrad plant. More information in the comments.

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Panzer III and Panzer I Ausf.B ohne Aufbau in Bulgaria in March 1941

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1 June 1944 Adolf Hitler poses with his secretary Johanna Wolf for her 44th Birthday, from Eva Braun's albums. Wolf was loyal to Hitler to the end of her life refusing large sums of money to write her autobiography and divulge secrets about Hitler. She said Hitler was innocent manipulated by others.

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Funeral of a German airman, Kharkov, Ukraine, Oct-Nov 1941.

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Colorized photo of a motor detachment in Stalingrad during the early phase of the battle. 1942

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A German boy playing with a toy Panther tank, 1944.

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Commander of the StG 77 (77th Dive Bomber Wing) Major Clemens Count of Schonborn-Wiesentheid on a field in southern Russia. USSR, 1942, colorized

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One of the Schwerer Gustav railway guns (80 cm) in firing position.

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Ukrainian Waffen-SS soldiers march past Heinrich Himmler at the Neuhammer training area in Poland - May 17, 1944.

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No further info on this pic of several soldiers in winter gear (Luftwaffe?)

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The lightest mobile anti-tank weapon deployed by Nazi Germany rolls into action in March 1945

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A Veteran Who served on the Battlefields of the German Empire's former African Colonies as a part of Schutztruppe unit adorns the official reichskolonialbund regalia and an iconic slouch hat while participating in a State Ceremony honouring Veterans of the Great War, Germany, 4 June 1939

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Dr Hans Guido Mutke, Luftwaffe fighter pilot during WWII. It has been controversially claimed that Mutke made the very first flight breaking the sound barrier in 1945, in a Me 262.

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Propaganda sequence showing a U-boat surfacing to engage an Allied freighter with its deck gun

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Still alive and kicking. Finnish police confiscated a suppressed MP40 last year, when they raided a house

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Surrendered Wehrmacht troops watched by Czech partisans in Bohemia 1945. Note the Leibermuster pants and jacket.

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A rare color aerial photo of the German armor going into action on the first morning of the Battle of Kursk

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Two well dressed Luftwaffe Leutnants

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Soldiers of the Wehrmacht admire their newly awarded Iron Crosses after the conquering of France-1940

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Equipment needed to launch a V2 rocket. Date and location unknown

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Child Soldiers with Panzerfausts in Luban, Lower Silesia.

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Adolf Hitler inspects soldiers of Hitler Youth , Berlin 20 March 1945

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Soldiers in winter gear adjust each other equipment.

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Waffen SS machine gun team operating an MG.34, close in on a burning building somewhere in the countryside of the Soviet Union during 'Operation Barbarossa' in the summer of 1941.

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Frenchmen of 33rd SS Grenadier Charlemagne, the last defenders of Berlin.

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