Salute on the inspection grounds, Winter, 1942. Note the interesting patch on several soldiers sleeves.

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5 cm Flugabwehrkanone 41 (5 cm FlaK 41 L/67) Calais, Bastion. Only 50 of these guns were made. 1941

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A German column advancing into France, 1940

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Two German Grenadiere during a combat break in wintry Russia. USSR, 1943, colorized

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German MG-34 with tripod and MGZ40 scope, probably taken on the drive to Stalingrad, summer 1942.

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A German soldier poking out of a hole cut through the side of a Russian plane.

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On this day, March 18th, in 1937, more than 300 students and teachers are killed when a natural gas leak causes an explosion destroying the London School of New London, Texas. Dozens of sympathetic messages pour in from world leaders, including a telegram from Adolf Hitler.

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A little German boy praising his elders, 1940.

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An injured German soldier who was separated from his unit surrenders to Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. Humain (Marche-en-Famenne), Province of Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium. 28 December 1944.

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Men of the 22nd Luftlande-Division boarding a Ju-52 in Munster on May 10, 1940. This was a highly specialized division trained for rapid tactical assaults to capture enemy airbases. They were not paratroopers and relied on primarily on gliders and transport aircraft for their missions.

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Rudolf Diels, first Commander of the Gestapo; 1933–1934. He was forced out as commander by Himmler and Goring because he was not considered ruthless enough to control the SA. He was married to Goring’s cousin and was later saved from prison by Goring because he would not arrest Jews.

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30 January 1944 Adolf Hitler awards the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves to SS Panzer commander Michael Wittmann.

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German infantry troops fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad. October 1942.

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Wehrmacht Unteroffizier petting the unit’s mascotte. Eastern Front 1941.

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Best friends forever.

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Waist gunner of a Heinkel He-111 manning a 7.92mm MG15. Due to cramped conditions, one gunner would often operate the guns on both sides -1939

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Danish volunteers waiting on orders to counterattack after Soviet forces managed to break into their lines - Eastern Front '44

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Hello, can anyone shed some light onto this photo of my Opa’s unit? Italy 1943. Thanks

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The Desert Fox Generalmajor Erwin Rommel at the Western Front. France, 1940, colorized.

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Wehrmacht infantry in street combat in the Battle of Novorossiysk, Sept. 1943. [1100x1399]

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Hitler Youth members in an event to encourage the recycling of tin tubes and foil, Worms, Germany, 1938.

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A German civilian gazes at a poster portrait of Joseph Stalin on the Unter den Linden in Berlin, 3 June 1945

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Scooting into France in May 1940

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German 8,8-cm-FlaK used as anti tank cannon. Africa, colorized

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Schwerer Gustav, the German 80 cm railway gun brought in by the Germans to destroy Sevastopol defenses in Crimea.

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Members of Luflande-Sturm-Regimen 1 enjoying cigarettes after the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium. Reputed to be impenetrable, the fortress fell on May 11, 1940.

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Fallschirmjager

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Soldier with MG34 France

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Graphic presentation of the Horten H XVIII High Speed Bomber. Conceptualized in 1945, it was due to the end of the war never developed.

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German youth photo. Stamped Jan. 1942 on backside

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Krupp 28 cm Kanone 5 (E) in action

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Eyes covered and ready for quick entry and adjustment to the dark interior, Kursk 1943

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Oberst Karl Lorenz, commander of the elite Panzergrenadier-Regiment Großdeutschland with Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. USSR, 1944, colorized

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Color photo of a seemingly jovial Hitler as he sits back in an very relaxed pose after enjoying his tea.

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The early days of the Eastern Front feat. A Panzer IV F1

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Adolf Hitler's trousers after the assassination attempt by Stauffenberg at Hitler's Wolf's Lair in East Prussia (now Poland). There Stauffenberg placed a bomb during the 20 July plot in 1944, he escaped the site believing Hitler dead but it was failure.

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Night fighter ace Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer. During a raid on Stuttgart he shot down the Ceremony Master, the lead bomber which marks the targets. Thanks to him the following bombers dropped their load on the wreck of the lead bomber in the forest, not on the civilians in the city.

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Two captured Luftwaffe crewmen walk out of the London Underground under British military escort, 1940.

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Adolf Hitler and another officer

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German POW kept in a cage at the Antwerp Zoo for lack of a better place, Belgium. 5 Sept 1944. See pic for colorization credits.

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Wacław Krzeptowski, a Goralenvolk collaborator, with German governor Hans Frank during an event held in honor of Hitler's birthday; April 20, 1940. The Goralenvolk were a populace from southern Poland the Nazis falsely claimed were ethnic Germans. Krzeptowski was executed for treason in January 1945

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MG34 gunner of the Waffen-SS Division Totenkopf watching the front line - Eastern Front '41

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Sleeping quarters and a food storage on a German U-boat

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Concealed German soldier in Normandy 1944. His Karabiner 98k rifle is equipped with a Schiessbecher grenade launcher. The Schiessbecher could be used against infantry, fortifications and light armored vehicles up to a range of 310 yards. Over 1.4 million units were produced between 1942 and 1944.

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Elephant and a Borgward Ladungstrager radio controlled bomb Kursk area 1943

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Field Marshal Rommel inspecting the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy, roughly a week before the allied invasion '44

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German soldiers with a Panzerbuchse 39 “tank hunting rifle model 39” on the Eastern Front '41

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Luftwaffen ground troops wearing Italian M29 camo and carrying capture American weapons. Near Nettuno, Italy, February 1944.

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SS officer in leather coat takes lead over a combat group comprised of scattered Heer troops, Vokssturm and Hitlerjugend in Pyritz (now Pyrzyce), Pomerania, February 1945.

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American soldier interrogating an exhausted and malnourished German soldier during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest, December, 1944

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Kaltenbrunner, 1943

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Rommel inspecting the German 21st Panzer Division, Normandy, France, 30 May 1944, note: French tanks pressed into German service

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A German bicycle infantry troop gets a motorized assist in a training exercise. By towing a squad of cyclists, a truck could conceivably move them twice as fast, and carry their supplies, too

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German troops parading through Warsaw, Poland, in September 1939

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PzKpfw V Panther are unloaded in preparation of Unternehmen Zitadelle. USSR, June 1943

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Colorized photo of rail mounted artillery being prepared to fire during the Polish Campaign. September 1939.

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German Kriegsmarine soldier inspecting an 18th century cannon in Jersey, Channel Islands (only British territory to be occupied by Germany during WW2), July 1940.

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A Waffen-SS sniper on the Eastern Front. 1942. (2048 x 1406)

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German prisoners of war in front of Cologne Cathedral, which surprisingly survived the war only slightly damaged, March 5, 1945

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A German soldier examines the Royal Emblem of an antique cannon mounted on the wall of a castle on the Isle of Jersey; one of the English Channel Islands, 1940. The Channel Islands are self governing British Crown dependencies located west of Normandy and were occupied by the Germans until May 1945.

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Japanese Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Wuerger (Shrike). In 1943 the Imperial Japanese Navy imported one FW-190 A-5 from Germany transferred in a submarine.

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A Tiger I brought to be battle-tested near the Mga railway station near Leningrad, but the tanks immediately needed repairs, Aug, 1942 (see comments for more info)

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Crete, 1941. Graveyard(s) for German Fallschirmjager (real color). Approx. 3,400 Fallschirmjager were killed in the Battle of Crete. Due to the enormous losses, Fallschirmjager never got the chance to carry out large-scale airborne landings again

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Wehrmacht soldiers in a defensive position during the Battle of Berlin. The one in the foreground is armed with an StG 44 assault rifle with a ZF-4 scope (April-May 1945).

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Waffen SS volunteers from Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France and other countries manned the defenses of the Seelow Heights during the Battle of Berlin; April 1945.

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Adolf Hitler leaving a Focke Wulf Fw 200 Condor (identification: CE + IB) of the Fliegerstaffel des Fuhrers. Smolensk, Soviet Union. September-October, 1943.

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Wehrmacht soldier holding a Panzerschreck, date unknown.

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Grenadiers of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf on the armor during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943.

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German refugees, civilians and soldiers, crowd platforms of the Berlin train station after arriving from Poland and Czechoslovakia following the defeat of Germany by Allied forces; circa 1945.

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Field Marshal Walter Model took command of the retreating German armies in France in mid-August 1944. “Did you see those eyes?” Hitler once said of Model. “I wouldn’t want to serve under him.”

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German military cemetery at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, November/December 1942. Mersa Matruh is a port on the Mediterranean Sea approximately 150 miles west of Alexandria.

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SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny in Pomerania visiting the 500th SS Parachute Battalion, February 1945 [1200x739]

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Adolf Hitler at Martin Bormann's wedding; September 2, 1929. Note the men are dressed in SA uniforms. Hitler never smiles at these events.

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German troops use a Schwellenpflug to destroy rail tracks. Italy 21 March 1944.

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German infantry take cover behind a StuG III Ausf.E as they advance towards soviet positions - Eastern Front '41

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Panzer mechanics prepare tracks to be put on a Tiger

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Wehrmacht soldiers with a captured Browning machine gun in Normandy. The trench was dug to rotate in any direction.

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Propaganda company reporter with his typewriter during the summer of 1941, Eastern Front.

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World War II - German Panther tank crewman playing the violin for the photographer

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French heavy tank Char B1 in german service destroyed on the eastern front,a 88mm gun can be seen in the background- 26 june 1941

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M42 Truppenfahrrad: German std issued bycicle for Heer & SS. It had a lot of interesting military oriented modificatons, read details in comments.

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Original photo of a Panther tank climbing a ridge on the Eastern Front.

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Captured Goliath tracked mines

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After the fall of France in 1940 the Germans took to Germany the train car where WW1 Germany surrender was signed at Compiegne, close to Paris.

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Colorized photo of German soldiers with French POW's, including Senegalese Tirailleurs. Maine France, June 1940.

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Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet getting ready for a test.

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Very Tired Looking Oberst

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Hoffmann's pic from 1920s

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Two German child-soldiers, armed with Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons and Mauser rifles, walk along Bankowa Street in Luban, Poland, 1945.

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SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Johannes Muhlenkamp, Kommandeur of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5/5. SS-PzD “Wiking” in his Panzer V Panther No. R02, and grenadiers is the 131.Infanterie-Division, battle of Kowel, Ukraine, April 6th, 1944

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Motorized German soldiers have contact with Ukrainian inhabitants during their entry into the territory, 1941.

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Three Canadian POWs surrounded by German soldiers. Dieppe, France, August 19, 1942

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One of the last pictures of Heinrich Himmler alive, taken during an award ceremony in Berlin on March 24, 1945. Himmler killed himself 2 months later.

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A German tank crew attempts to restore their Panzer IV's mobility after battle damage inflicted during the fighting near Monte Cassino. Spring 1944.

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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 Panzerkorps to the US Army, May 4 1945. See pic lower right corner for colorization credit.

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The surrender of Akershus Fortress in Oslo, Norway. The German garrison's commander Major Josef Nichterlein and his aide Captain Hamel handing the fortress over to the Norwegian resistance movement's Terje Rollem in May 11, 1945

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A Tiger I in Russia, Mid-1943

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March 1945, Nordhausen, Germany. Production line of Fiesler Fi 103 V1 flying bombs in an underground production plant. Production of the V1s numbered 32,000, some 5,500 reached Britain

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Degenerate Music Anti-Jazz poster, Nazi Germany (Date unknown)

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My grandmother's brother Willi, 1942.

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The automobile engineer Ferdinand Porsche (in suit), Adolf Hitler and, immediately to Hitler’s left, the head of the German Labour Front, Robert Ley, admired Hitler’s birthday gift on his 50th birthday: a convertible Volkswagen. April 20, 1939

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A Hungarian woman feeding soup to a German soldier during the siege of Budapest, 1945

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German soldiers of the 24th Panzer Division fighting near the southern station in Stalingrad, 1942.

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Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. January 1945.

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German motorcyclist in full winter gear, the motorcycle looks like a Zundapp, 1942.

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German Brandenburger commando troops firing at Soviet troops on a bridge over the Oder River with an 8.8 cm Flak anti-aircraft cannon. 1945.

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20mm quadruple Flak38, with lot of kill marks showing how many planes were shot down. Date and location unknown

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A Volkssturm soldier explaining how to use and fire a panzerfaust to a female civilian. March 1945

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Regimental mascot with 8.8cm Flak (colorized)

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leFH 18 howitzer crew performs direct fire in mid 1941 during the invasion of the Soviet Union

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Xmas are upon us! An Afrika Korps member prepares a small Xmas tree.

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Messerschmitt Bf 109F fighters at the factory airfield, 1941

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Leaders conference of the NSDAP in Bad Elster. From left to right in the front row, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Frick, Adolf Hitler, Franz von Epp, Hermann Goring, in the second row, Martin Mutschmann, Joseph Goebbels, Julius Schaub, in the third row, Karl Fritsch.

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US Army officers inspect a StG-44 with a curved barrel mounted (Krummlauf). Colorization by Piece of Jake.

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Hans Frank, Head of General Government Poland, at a police parade in Krakow (1942).

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Motorcycle troops of Großdeutschland Division stop for a break near the Don river. Summer 1942.

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The front of a Heinkel He-111 medium bomber in flight during a bombing mission to London, England, United Kingdom, Nov 1940

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Men of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking outside Warsaw, Poland 1944.

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A girl touches the skull symbol on her relative's uniform, date unknown.

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Calculation of SS profit per concentration camp prisoner

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Josef Allerberger was a Austrian marksman and with 257 confirmed kills one of the best snipers of the Wehrmacht. 18 years old he was drafted 1943 and served on the eastern front. He died 2010. Because every sniper hit had to be confirmed by an officer, the real number of kills is likely higher.

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German tankers rush to the waters of the Mediterranean during down time after the Greece Campaign. Greece, 1941.

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Panzer I troop undergoing river training

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Heer soldiers fire an MG 34 using the over the shoulder technique, Northern Poland, May 1941.

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Heinz Guderian being transported to the eastern front, 1943.

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German prisoners massed in a temporary holding area prior to transport to a POW camp. They walked across a ruined bridge over the Elbe River to surrender to Allied forces instead of Soviet troops. Taken by William Vandivert ( LIFE ) in Stendal, Germany, May, 1945.

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German officers inspect a downed P-47D Thunderbolt flown by Polish-American ace Francis Gabby Gabreski, July 20, 1944, near Niedermendig, Germany. Gabreski was scheduled to return home that day, but asked to fly just one more. He clipped the ground while on a strafing run, and was later captured

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Legion of French volunteers against Bolshevism on the march to Moscow from Smolensk. November 1941.

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A Ramschaufelpanzer StuG IV, essentially a de-armed StuG converted into a bulldozer for clearing debris. March 30, 1944

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“Durch Kampf zum Sieg” - “Through struggle to victory” A U-boat captain leaves the submarine bunker at Brest, France

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German machine-gun squad on the Eastern Front, 1942.

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Adolf Hitler tours a BMW plant with CEO Franz-Josef Popp in 1935. On 7-March-2016 BMW admitted regret for the suffering it caused by using slave labor. BMW manufactured airplane engines, motorcycle parts,and profited from being handed businesses seized from Jews sent to concentration camps.

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A German prisoner captured by U.S. 16th Infantry Regiment, near Weywertz. Belgium. 15 January 1945.

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A narrow Russian country road crowded with German military transport (motorised and horse drawn). In the foreground, a German military car has been pushed off the road into a ditch, possibly after breaking down.Summer 1942

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Two Hitlerjugend members holding up a flag over a picture of Hindenburg.

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