Ricardo Klement, Rabbit breeder and department head of Mercedes Benz Argentina, 1953

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Staged photo of a German soldier arresting 3 Roma. The photo had to be re-done because the first time the boy (one in the back) was in front and smiled

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German troops entering Haarlem in the Netherlands, looking at the vehicle plates I assume SS. Note the motorcyclists carrying MP 28 submachine guns. 1940.

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SS-Standartenfuhrer Johannes Rudolf Muhlenkamp place a stick grenade in the 76 mm tube of a Russian SU-76M to neutralize it. 5th SS Panzer Divison Wiking, East of Warsaw, Summer of 1944.

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SS soldiers help lift a severely wounded comrade onto a Panzer III during the Battle of Kursk - August '43

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Sergeant Maurice Parker from Fairfield, Maine, holds a German Liuetenant and his Sergeant at gun point after they were captured behind enemy lines. Anzio, Italy, April 14th, 1944.

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German pilots inspect a hole in the wing of an aircraft. The hole is so large that one of the pilots is completely placed in it

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A sailor stands guard in front of German battleship Scharnhorst in Wilhelmshaven the day after commissioning (8th January, 1939)

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Waffen SS troops make their way through a russian village [4th of August, 1941]

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A german soldier with a StG 44 and nightscope Zielgerat 1229 Vampir. February, 1945

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Iron Cross 2nd class Obergefreiter. He bears the East Medal, Wound badge, Infantry Assault badge and the Close Combat clasp.

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A German soldier using a jerry can with a handgranade fixed to it as an anti tank weapon on a T-34, this was often done at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. Picture likely for propaganda or from training

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German soldiers round-up a group of Jewish men and line them up against a picket fence shortly before the Czestochowa Massacre

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Deutsches Afrikakorps soldier walks past a US-made M3 Lee tank in British Service knocked out by two frontal penetrations in 1942

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Colorized head on photo of the Bismarck, launched 82 years ago today. Photo taken in 1940.

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Adolph Hitler at a parade in Germany I’m thinking about 1939 to 1940

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Oberfeldwebel of the Großdeutschland division, 1943

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Soldiers of the US 2nd Armored Division look at a fallen German soldier in a foxhole with two Panzerfausts beside him. Germany, 1945

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German soldiers of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, light cigarettes on the front line near Kharkov - Early '43

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PzKpfw VI Tiger of the Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 505 accompanied by mounted Panzergrenadiere shortly before their advance in the course of Unternehmen Zitadelle. The Abteilung lost in two days 21 of 26 Tigers but was able to destroy 111 soviet tanks. USSR, early July 1943

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Members of both the Deutsches Jungvolk section of the Hitlerjugend and the Bund Deutscher Madel at the May Day rally on the market square, 1 May 1937.

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German soldier disembarking a train, Belgium or France, 1943-1944⁣

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German Mg-34 gunner on a Eastern Front. Date and location unknown

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SS soldiers belonging to Heimwehr Danzig. This unit only existed for a month and was then incorporated into the 3rd SS Panzer Division. Poland, September 1939.

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A Wehrmacht motorcyclist buys the German Volkischer Beobachter newspaper on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France

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Lebensborn (spring of life) nursery. These were clinics where many single German women went to give birth in secret. Many fathers were SS officers encouraged to sire children outside of marriage in order to build the German master race. The Nazis did not stigmatize single “Aryan” pregnant women

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German soldiers capturing a soviet. Notice the ammount od gear carrying by the German soldier including the hand granate. 1941

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A Panzer III (pretty sure it's an Ausf H) belonging to Panzerabteilung 40. The man in the grey uniform is a Finnish correspondent. Karelia, Finland. Photo dated July 1st, 1941

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A German orphan trying to exchange his father's Iron Cross for cigarettes in Berlin, 1945.

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A Waffen SS soldier kicks a captured Russian pilot. Kursk, 1943.

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German soldier cleans his rifle in the short break between battles in Stalingrad '42

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A Obergefreiter (comparable to OR-3) with a Panzerschreck in a city in France. 1944, colorized

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Panzers assemble for attack northwest of Jassy Romania, June 1944 (3298 x 2225)

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Bulowstraße, Berlin 1945

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A Canadian soldier from the 4th Canadian (Armored) Division escorts a wounded captive Luftwaffe NCO who was captured during a German counter-attack in Sogel. The Canadian is armed with a captured StG 44 assault rifle. April 1945.

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Spanish General Agustin Munoz Grandes, commander of the “Blue Division”, receiving the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves in 1942.

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German bicycle troops in Oslo. April 1940

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Heinkel He-111 H-8, these were earlier variants modified with a balloon cable cutting fender.

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American, German, French, Polish and Italian observers being briefed by an Imperial Japanese army officer during the battle of Shanghai (1937)

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Panzer IV mit Kalkanstrich und Winterketten Ausf. G

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Delivery of the 1000th Bf-109 produced at Messerschmitt Wiener Neustadter Flugzeugwerke.

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A German BV 138 flying boat at a rendezvous point with a Kriegsmarime submarine

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-Not sure if this fits- A captured King Tiger II redeployed by American troops during the Battle of the Bulge '44

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Aerial pics of the Bulge battlefield, at least 4 Panthers of the 4th SS Pz Reg were immobilized in a minefield

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Waffen SS Infrantryman, Eastern Front, 1943. Published by 'Berliner Volkszeitung', 27.10.1943.

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German Heer gather round a Steyr 1500A Light Truck, during the invasion of Poland. 1939. Colourised.

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The German Bf-109 was really a narrow plane...

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German soldiers with bottles of stolen French wine, 1940.

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Nice colorized Tiger pic

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Members of Panzer Lehr Division study a map of the region surrounding the village of Tilly-sur-Seulles during the Battle of Normandy, 1944.

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German soldier somewhere in Europe - 1943

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‘Boys will be Boys’ German Fallschirmjager bring a PAK abwehr kanone into position.

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Adolf Hitler poses with a group of sailors aboard the Deutschland battleship, late 30s.

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81 years ago today, German troops with a 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschutz 18 cannon crossing the Soviet border during the opening of Operation Barbarossa. 22 June 1941.

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This 13 yr old German boy was one of 60 members of the Hitler Youth captured by the 14th Armoured Division, 3rd US Army, in the vicinity of Martinszell-Waltenhofen, Germany on April 29, 1945. US Army Signal Corps photo- PFC Joseph W. Lapine

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The Wehrmacht (Army, Navy and Air Force)

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German gunners rolling into place a large 8.8 cm Pak 43/41 L/71. France, Sep 1944.

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With Adolf Hitler in power in 1933 the German Unions were banned and replaced by a Nazi organization called Labour Front. Among other things key employment rights such as the right to strike were removed.

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Heinrich Himmler addresses a group of female Hitler youth in 1937. The Gestapo relied on such civilian loyalists to be their eyes and ears.

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A knocked out Panzer II in Libya 1941.

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Wehrmacht artillery observation balloon used for directing fire during the fight for the Rollbahn (highway) near Nowo-Jarylowitschi, south of Gomel, Belorussia, 28.8.1941.

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Two infantrymen during Operation Weserubung. Norway, April 1940.

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U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany, on May 28, 1946. In a Dachau war-crimes trial, he was convicted of using 1,200 concentration-camp prisoners for malaria experimentation.

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(1024 x 573 ) Replica of late production Me 262 A-1c (single-seat) variant (Werknummer 501244) that was completed in August 2005

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The mother of a POW thanks Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer after his return from Moscow on Sept 14, 1955 at Cologne/Bonn Airport for the successful conclusion of his negotiations with the Soviet leadership. Adenauer had managed to get over 15,000 POW’s and civilian deportees returned to West Germany.

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The crew of a Sd.Kfz 222 armored recon car pose for a photo together.

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Swimming pool at the barracks of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Berlin-Lichterfelde, 1941.

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German Wehrmacht troops forced stop and take cover from sniper fire during the Battle of Sedan - 1940

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Heinrich Himmler inspects soldiers of the 13th Waffen-SS. 1943/1944 approx.

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German tankers of Kommandoverband Jaguar in front of a T-34/85 with a suppressed MP 40

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German armored column in the first days of the invasion of Poland, 1939.

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Battleship Tirpitz painted to look like a common building, this camo was intended to fool air reconnaissance. A unique camo scheme.

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This especially decorated Panzer IV Ausf H. celebrates the 100th unit completed by the Nibelungenwerke factory in the Austrian city of St. Valentin. (1688x1181)

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Panther tanks of Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland arrive by rail in East Prussia in September 1944

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Soldier of the 12th SS Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend, exhibiting signs of the thousand yard stare after heavy fighting in Caen, Normany '44

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Soldiers are fighting in the Polish city of Sochaczew. Two soldiers take cover behind a BMW R12 motorcycle. Sept, 1939.

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Repainting German helmets and turning them into pots. 1946

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A Tiger I equipped with some kind of snow plow in the Alps near St. Johann, Tirol, Austria

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First contact between Germans and Russians in the conquest of Poland. On the left a German general and on the right a Russian army commissioner, Brest-Litowsk, 1939

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Men from a German forward detachment advance through a Ukrainian village west of Kiev, in August 1941

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The Arado Ar 234, the first jet-powered bomber, dropping its payload in early 1945. In the few instances it was utilized as a bomber, it was nearly impossible to intercept, reaching max speeds of 480mph (780km/h).

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German POWs prepare to be transferred back to England following the capture on D-Day. June 1944. Original Kodachrome.

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Nazi opposers Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst (on the right) at the Munich eastern rail station shortly before Hans' departure to the eastern front. Germany, July 1942, colorized

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Grenadiers of the 3rd SS-Totenkopf during the battle of Kursk '43

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Large and small - Bussing-NAG 4500 and Fiat 500. Date and location unknown

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My Grandfather #9 - Flieger rank with EM visor cap. Early war, Lubeck.

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German unit commanders discuss their plan of attack on high elevation American positions. Luxembourg. Mid December, 1944.

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German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad, January 31, 1943.

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German soldiers of Kampfgruppe Hansen rush across a road while fighting against the US 14th Cavalry Group during the Ambush at Poteau. note: the german on the far right carrying a captured m1 carbine - Dec 18, 1944

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Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C Condor (code SG + KS) in flight, 1941.

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Tiger II tanks of 503rd Panzer Div. move through the streets of Paris as they head for the Normandy front. August 1944.

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German soldiers practising jiu jitsu. Date and location unknown

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88mm guns of the Condor Legion operating as field artillery during the Spanish Civil war in 1937

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SS-Men from Kampfgruppe Hansen (LSSAH) after a successful ambush on a convoy of the US 14th Cavalry Group on the road between Poteau and Recht in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge (December 18, 1944).

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Two German bombers fly over south-east London on the first day of the Blitz, 7 September 1940.

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Two Heer soldiers on a motorcycle, near Arras. France. May, 1940.

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7th Panzer Division on the move

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An SS-Oberscharfuhrer and SS-Unterscharfuhrer of First SS-Panzer-Division 'LSSAH', SS-Panzer-Aufklarungs-Abteilung 1, (Kampfgruppe Knittel) at the Kaiserbaracke crossroads on the road between Saint-Vith and Malmedy, Dec 18, 1944

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Volunteer of the 13. SS Gebirgs-Division Handschar with Wehrmacht Cossack volunteers at a training course in Germany, 1943

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WWI Mk IV British tank knocked out during battle of Berlin in 1945. Apparently, several Mk IV tanks used in the Russian Civil War were captured during Operation Barbarossa and used by Germans in Berlin.

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German sailor playing with Simba the lion, the mascot aboard the light cruiser Leipzig

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Members of the Wehrmacht enjoying a snowball fight in a rail yard, 1940.

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Africans in the Wehrmacht. Not much info on this pic other than seems to have different ethnics & nationalities there. Any info somebody can add?

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Two Jewish men in Lithuania are given orders by German soldier, June 24, 1941, just days after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. In total 95% (190,000–195,000) of Lithuania's Jewish population would be murdered in the Holocaust.

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Panzer IV ausf. D (or maybe an even earlier model?) on the Eastern Front in 1941

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MG42 gunner of the elite Großdeutschland Division marching on the Eastern Front 1941-43

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Newly enlisted volunteers for the elite Großdeutschland Division march in order behind a Colonel and Hitler Youth leader - November 25th, 1944

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The pilot of a Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse waggles his wings to indicate a successful bomber interception mission

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A German crew poses with their captured T-34/76 with two others in the background. Note that all three T-34's have been refitted with German cupolas. Exact date unknown.

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German prisoners and Belgian collaborators in the cages of the Antwerp Zoo. September 1944

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Medal identification request

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Infantry catching a ride on a Panzer IV Ausf F2 on the Kerch Peninsula (Crimea region). The Ausf F2 was the first Panzer IV variant to feature a long barreled (KwK 40 L/43) 75mm gun. May 1942

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Captured universal carrier with mounted Panzerschreck's. Redesignated as the Panzerjager bren 731 (e)

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Young replacements from the Hitler Youth huddled in a foxhole on the Eastern Front

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A photo of SS commander Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer, during the opening phases of Operation Barbarossa. July, 18, 1941. Let it be noted that Meyer was one of the worst, most despicable and evil men in the SS. He was directly involved in the massacres around Kharkov (43') and the Ardenne Abbey massacre.

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Adolf Hitler talks to wounded soldiers in Berlin for the Heldengetenktag (Day of Commemoration of Heroes); 10-March-1940. Hitler was wounded twice during WWI.

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A group of German snipers of the 1st Paratroop Panzer Division Hermann Goring in the city of Bautzen, 1945. Note that while one man is wearing a Fallschirmjager M38 Helmet while the rest wear more traditional Stahlhelm.

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Lauri Torni, and his lifelong love for fighting Communists.

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The Americans realized the desperation of the Germans when they began capturing young teenagers who had been pressed into service. These young SS soldiers were taken prisoner near Bastogne, Belgium; 1944-45, by the American 2nd Armored Division

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Colonel Willi Langkeit (oak leaf bearer; 2 from left) with officers in cover, next to command Panther (tower number 01) of the Großdeutschland division, Southern Ukraine, June 1944.

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A Panzer IV with a damaged track being recovered in Russia during the Winter of 41/42

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Panther, Tiger II, Jagdtiger and another Tiger II somewhere in germany at the end of the war

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German Infantry supported by a Panzer IV and a StuG III, cautiously move through the snow in early 1944.

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I recently found this photo. I don't know anything about it.

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Generaloberst Guderian postcard distributed in August 1940, the Nazis were huge proponents of hero worship among generals.

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Danish school children watching as German infantrymen walk by, 1940.

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Tiger I of SS schwere Panzer-Abteilung 101 near Villers-Bocage - 11 June 1944

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A Soviet honor guard stands next to the stairs of death in the Wiener Graben quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp

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Matthaus Hetzenauer poses with his scoped K98k. Only 19 years old he was with 345 confirmed kills the most successfull german sniper in WWII. In April 1945 he was awarded the Knights Cross for his bravery on the field of battle. He died 2004 in his home in Brixen, Austria.

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German soldier from the emblematic Wehrmacht division Grossdeutschland drawing a fight scene on a wall. Eastern Front, 1942.

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Children playing on T-34/85 wreck, Berlin, May 1945

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This is my grandfather, I'd really like to know what his rank, division, etc. is. He never talked about the war. Thanks for your help

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WWII - Semyon Bychkov (Hero of the Soviet Union) - Traitor Soviet ace pilot that shot down 17 Axis aircraft, defected to the Axis side and created a Russian Anti-Soviet airforce division. In the end of war he surrendered to the Americans, who turned him over to the Soviet Union to be executed.

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It's a dogs life. Dogs were often used to transport ammunition in Infanteriekarren IF8 cart

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Unsettling imagine of Luftwaffe Soldier holding a rifle to a cat.

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General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, commander of the German garrison at Cherbourg, shortly after his surrender on June 26, 1944 to the Americans. In his pocket was found a menu from a dinner honoring him a few weeks earlier, featuring lobster and champagne. He died in 1964 at the age of 69.

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German troops of Großdeutschland Division firing a 2.8 cm sPzB 41 anti-tank gun aboard a SdKfz. 250/10 half-track vehicle on the northern Eastern Front, 23 Sep 1943.

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German Grenadiere during the 4th defense of the Smolensk supply route, 17 December 1943. colorized

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A Heer soldier takes the Fuhrer oath. Date and location unknown. From my personal collection.

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Troops of 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich wave a flag to alert Stuka pilots of the position. Belgorod, 3 August 1943.

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