2065 best r/germanww2photos images on Pholder | Professor Wernher von Braun with his arm in a cast accompanied by Walter Dornberger (left) and Bernhard Tessmann (right) after surrendering to the US 44th Infantry Division on May 3rd 1945 in the Austrian Alps

Professor Wernher von Braun with his arm in a cast accompanied by Walter Dornberger (left) and Bernhard Tessmann (right) after surrendering to the US 44th Infantry Division on May 3rd 1945 in the Austrian Alps

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General Erwin Rommel studying maps with officers, France, May-Jun 1940

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Adolf Hitler Visiting the Tomb of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte During His Tour of Paris Following the German Conquest of France. Summer, 1940.

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Gebirgsjager Helmut Wirnsperger with his scoped K98k. With 64 confirmed kills he was one of the most successful german snipers. He served on the eastern front in the 3rd Mountain Division until he was wounded and returned to Austria to train Sniper recruits.

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Adolf Hitler's study at the Old Reich Chancellery in the late 30s.

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A early war photo of soldiers of the SS-Verfugungstruppe, the predecessor of the Waffen SS. Note the officer's use of puttees rather than the standard jack boots.

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Captured Schwalbe ME 262

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Lt Col. Gerhard Barkhorn a Luftwaffe fighter ace, with 301 allied kills. Later, post war, he was involved in development of Kestrel P. 1127 in UK (Later Harrier jump jet).After crashing one he said Drei Hundert und Zwei as he walked away from crashed jet

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I found an old photo album and the Wehrpass of my great grandpa. The pictures aren’t comparable to some of the others on this sub but It‘s nevertheless interesting. I put the other 49 pictures in the link in the comments. Enjoy

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A German Fallschirmjager stands guard alongside British soldiers, possibly in the Netherlands, c.May/June 1945. In several cases across Europe after the 8th May,Fallschirmjagers were allowed to retain their arms for a period of time to assist Allied forces with guard duties.

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Luftwaffe ace Josef Sepp Wurmheller paints another kill on the tail of his Fw 190. Wurmheller was credited with 102 enemy aircraft before he was killed in a collision with his wingman during a dogfight with a USAAF P-47 and a RCAF Spitfire on June 22, 1944.

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German cemetery, Tunisia, 1943.

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German woman walking down the street with gas mask and a baby cart on Kurfurstendamm Avenue in Berlin. November 1943, after an Allied bombing raid.

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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler addresses soldiers with his back facing the camera at a Nazi rally in Dortmund, Germany, in 1933.

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General Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff, who on March 21, 1943 (80 years ago today) attempted to kill Hitler as a suicide-bomber at the Zeughaus in Berlin. Hitler left much earlier than expected and von Gersdorff was able to disarm the bombs in his coat.

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SS swearing in ceremony. During WWII, between 175 and 200 Swedish volunteers, (possibly as many as 315), served in the Waffen-SS, in spite of the fact that Sweden was a neutral country with a strong pro-Allied public opinion.

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Joseph Goebbels Photographed at his Final Propaganda Rally , Gorlitz ( March 6, 1945)

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Goebbels speaking at Gorlitz townhall, 1945

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Frohe Weihnachten und Guten Rutsch! Here's an original 1942 Stalingrad Tannenbaum for you all! These were made, by order of Goring, to be flown into Stalingrad. (Dresden Military Museum)

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German Panzergrenadiers of the 16th Panzer Divison on the riverbank of the Volga, August 25th 1942

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German Brummbar front close up, unit preserved at Musee des Blindes Saumur, France.

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Luftwaffe soldiers talking with a Soviet civilian on a ruined street in Stalingrad, October 1942.

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Soldiers of the 33rd SS Division “Charlemagne” take a smoke break, possibly Pomerania, 1945.

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A Jagdpanzer 38 Hetzer next to a Jagdpantherđ Date and location unknown

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Two soldiers of the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism, Eastern Front. 1941.

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Leutnant (posthumous) Leopold Steinbatz, the only NCO to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

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Pre-war photo of Dr. Oskar Paul Dirlewanger after receiving his Phd from Goethe University, Frankfurt. He majored in Political science.

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German crew servicing a Ju 87 Stuka aircraft, 1942-1944; note 3.7-cm anti-tank guns mounted under wings

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Soldiers in gas masks and helmet, location and date unknown

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Junkers Ju 87 Stuka getting its forward-firing machine guns aligned

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My Mothers Cross in gold. This award was awarded to mothers of the Reich with eight or more children. The maker, Friedrich Linden Ludendscheid was one of the more popular medal makers and they are usually highly sought after.

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An rare photo of German Heinkel He-111 bomber crews holding a symbolic funeral before their next mission. Coffin inscription: Dein leben Dein gewinn your life, your reward - Tatsinskaya airfield (Stalingrad) '42

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A group of 8-14yr Hitler Youth's receiving instruction from a Heer Lieutenant on how to operate a MG42 -December '44

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The Nero Decree was issued by Hitler on 3/19/1945 ordering the destruction of German infrastructure. Responsibility fell to Armaments Minister Albert Speer who deliberately failed to execute the order. Hitler was unaware of this failure until the very end of the war,

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The Tiger 205 of Michael Wittman in north of France on the way of his next battle

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Someone on this sub prior to my post posted this image but at a angle to which a soldier is signing at a wounded French soldier, this picture, from a old book, shows another scene afterward? Of what seems as a German soldier attempting to help the wounded man

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German General Max von Edelsheim is escorted by American Army officers in his command VW Schwimmwagen across the River Elbe during the negotiations of the surrender of XXXXVIII Panzerkrops to the US Army. May 4, 1945.

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The German troops are applauded after their liberation of Danzig. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, Danzig (according to the German a German city) was one of the first to be occupied.

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Grave of a German soldier marked by his helmet and the remains of what appears to be his MG42 machine gun; Italian Campaign, 18-November-1943

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Parade of the German Volkssturm, conscripted males between the ages of 16 and 60 years. One man carries a Panzerschreck anti-tank rocket launcher. Germany, November 1944.

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SS Hitlerjugend Officers Conferred at Ardenne Abbey, June 1944

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Wehrmacht Sturmpioniere (Stormtrooper/Assault Pioneer), 1940.

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A German officer examines a captured Thompson submachine gun on a beach in the Dieppe area. France August 1942

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MG-34 on the german positions. The Soviet Union, 1943. Franz Grasser.

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Hitler with Bernile Nienau, then about 6, at the Berghof (Haus Wachenfeld) in 1933. He refused to cut off contact with her even after he was informed that her grandmother was Jewish.

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Volkssturm men in Konigsberg with Panzerfaust and a MG 151/20 gun (Aircraft MG modified for ground use), winter of 1945.

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Colonel General Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, on a trip through the streets of Lodz. The great industrial city that was called the Polish Manchester had just been taken by German troops, September 1939.

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Jewish residents of Budapest are assembled for deportation to a Nazi Concentration Camp. Between May 15 and July 9, 1944, a total 437,402 were rounded up and deported. All by but 15,000 were sent to Auschwitz.

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Adolf Hitler attended the marriage of Hermann Fegelein and Gretl Braun (the sister of Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress) on 3–June-1944. Eleven months later, Hitler ordered that Fegelein be shot for deserting his post. Gretl remarried after the war and died in 1987 at age 72.

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Two German DAK soldiers examine the captured Thompson submachine gun

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Color portrait photography of then SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Otto Skorzeny taken in 1943

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Luftwaffe Musikkorps!

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A Panzerkampfwagon (PzKpW) IV Ausf. G and a Sd.Kfz.263 Funkspahwagon on a snow covered road in winter, 1943.

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Christian Tychsen born the December 3th 1910 and died the July 28th 1944 (aged 33) he was Obersturmbannfuhrer in the Waffen SS. More information in the comments...

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Rare photo of a Marder II with an infrared equipment. Infrared equipment was introduced in numbers im 1944, mostly to Panther units of the Panzer Lehr Division and saw actually use in combat

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German Army 8.8 cm FlaK 18 gun deployed in an anti-tank role, Bir al Hakim, near Tobruk, North Africa, Jun 1942

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Michael Wittman standing in the turret of Tiger 205 as they travel along Route nationale 316, en route to Morgny. Photo dated June 7, 1944.

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German armored train BP42

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A 3rd SS Totenkopf Division grenadier talking with a Hungarian soldier in Budapest, October 1944. The Konigstiger is from the schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503

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US Army soldiers taken prisoner in the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.

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German infantrymen lead away a captured French soldier of a colonial regiment in Commercy, Lorraine, 1940.

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In Berlin on May 6, 1933, just over three months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, members of the SA, the Nazi Party’s stormtroopers, and ultra-nationalist students ransacked the Institute for Sexual Science as part of the Nazi oppression of the gay community in Germany.

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Defensive position in Poland, February 1945.

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At Monte Cassino, Italy a German machine-gun crew finds good cover amid the rubble while operating an MG42 machine gun; 1944

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Allied tank crew nightmare. Ack-ack 88 kill rings

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Original color slide from a German motorcycle messenger (Kradmelder), somewhere in France around 1940

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Members of the Hitler Youth during rifle practice in 1943.

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U.S. Military Police of the 44th Infantry Division interview two juvenile Wehrmacht soldiers following the surrender the German 19th Army on May 5, 1945.

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Adolf Hitler (third from right, Fuhrer und oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht) inspecting one of the first twenty Jagdpanzer 38 (Sd.Kfz.138/2) Hetzer (Baiter or Troublemaker) during official presentation for the 55th Fuhrer's birthday at Arys (Orzysz) in East Prussia, 20 April 1944.

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Joachim Peiper poses for a photo at Berghof, July 29, 1940. On that day his boss, Himmler, paid a visit to Hitler shortly after the defeat of France.

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German troops at the beginning of Operation Spring Awakening, which lasted from 6-March until 15-March-1945 on the Eastern Front and was the last major German offensive of the war. The objective was to secure the oil fields of Hungary and stop the Russian advance on Austria. The objective failed.

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A German soldier talks to a Soviet prisoner with SN-42 armor. Karelia, 1944, colorized

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This Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-88, which saw intense anti-ship action judging by the tail marks, was equipped with a rear firing flamethrower for testing purposes.

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Soldiers of the Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism, 1941.

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German Ju-87 'Stuka' after a forced landing. No information on date or location of picture

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A two-man Scharfschutze (sniper) team. The shooter is using a captured Russian Mosin-Nagant rifle. October 1941

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French Troops captured by German forces at Dunkirk. Photo by Hugo Jager

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Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the German Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in conversation during a celebration in front of the Garrison Church in Potsdam. March 21, 1933

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German soldiers march through the woods during Operation Wacht am Rhein. Luxembourg. 22 December, 1944.

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Members of the Panzer Division Das Reich in the USSR, 1941

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Members of the SS 1. Skijager-Division ( 1st Ski Division). Created in 1943 it fought exclusively in the Eastern Front.

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German and Romanian soldiers during Operation Munchen. Romania contributed more troops to the Eastern Front than all of Germany’s other allies combine.

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Terrified civilians tried to flee the violence in Berlin as Soviet forces advanced within the city; April 1945. Approximately 1.5 million Soviet troops assaulted the city in April and May 1945.

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Sturmtiger 380 mm barrel

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Youthful member of the SS Division Hitlerjugend or 12th SS Panzer Division with a MG 42 machine gun slung over his shoulder; Normandy, summer 1944. The MG 42 was a deadly weapon feared by both Allies and Russians and popularly known as “Hitler’s Buzzsaw” for its ability to mow down rows of soldiers.

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Propaganda image showing a Leichter Ladungstrager Goliath demolition vehicle heading towards a derelict Soviet SU-85 SPG

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