Hans-Ulrich Rudel was a German ground-attack pilot, flying Stuka JU-87’s and the most decorated German serviceman of World War II, being the sole recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks all in Russia.2yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A group of Soviet soldiers surrenders to soldiers of the LSSAH. USSR, 1941, colorized by Julius Jaaskelainen2yr ⋅ haeyhae11 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Ghost of war: Panther Ausf. G & Panzer IV Ausf. J '611' of Panzer Regiment 16, 116. Panzer Division. Hotton, the Battle of the Bulge.4yr ⋅ RussianFan1996 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Germans soldiers of Army Group North rest and light cigarettes in front of a burning Soviet armored GAZ-AA truck during the Siege of Leningrad '414yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Colorized of photo of three Volkssturm each armed with a Panzerfaust. Berlin, March 19454yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Sept 1940; two German Luftwaffe crewmen, an Unteroffizier (Corporal) and an Oberleutnant (the highest ranking Lieutenant Officer) who bailed out during a bombing raid emerge from the London Underground onto the city streets. Churchill objected to shooting parachuting aircrew “like drowning sailors”3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
MG42 gunner of the Waffen-SS tries to get some rest on the side of a road after heavy fighting in Normandy '444yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Funeral of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1941. Visible in this photo are Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Generals Curt Haase and August von Mackensen, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Reichskommissar for the Netherlands ). Wilhelm's request that no Swastikas flags nor other Nazi regalia be used were predictably ignored.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Junkers Ju-52 with her pilot in 1939 during the invasion of Poland. The nose text reads whether figuren (???), gasoline or bread, we bring death to Poland3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Hans Speidel with Erich von Manstein August in 1943. Speidel was part of the July 20th plot, and was tasked with recruiting Erwin Rommel. Speidel was the only major participant to survive, and later served in the Bundeswehr as a General from 1955-1963.2yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Major Lindermann gives a speech atop Tiger 111 during the opening ceremony of Loewo-bridge, 1944.4yr ⋅ Lethal_Spectrum ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German soldier checks his watch while waiting under cover shortly before launching an attack on Tobruk2yr ⋅ vitoskito ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Panzer IV tank after being hit by a battleship shell. Day before D Day4yr ⋅ RussianFan1996 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
While this German classroom studied “race science,” Jewish students were forced to stand at the front of the room. The blackboard says, “The Jew is our greatest enemy.”1yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Erwin Rommel, German general and war criminal, sharing pleasantries with his friend Adolf. January 19423yr ⋅ FlagIIII ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Volkswagen Schwimmwagen amphibious vehicle with German 20 mm AA gun3yr ⋅ conandivljak ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Berlin city police and a Nazi Party member on the streets of Berlin on Election Day. 5 March 1933.2yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German armored train in a rail yard, behind flat cars loaded with what looks like Stug III,s4yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Rare photo of the 'Erlkonig' or Elf King. A light standard car, purpose built for the Gebirgsjager.4yr ⋅ Berlinbattlefiend ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6s of Jagdgeschwader 27 take to the air to intercept an Allied bombing raid in 19433yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Waffen-SS of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler gather to sing a song near Kharkov, 1943.3yr ⋅ Mead530 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Colorized photo of a Nashorn of Schwere Panzerjager-Abteilung 519 trying to cross a swamp. Date unkown.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Close up photo of a heavily armed Fallschirmjaeger with his MG34 - Date unknown4yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Solly Perel, a German Jew living in hiding as a member of the Hitler Youth, has a snowball fight with a friend2yr ⋅ SpartanburgSheriff ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German POWs, probably from 26. Volksgrenadier-Division, stand in front of a house in ruins after they are captured by the U.S. 4th Armored Division, which helped break the siege of the city of Bastogne, Belgium. 9 January 1945 [1000x719]3yr ⋅ Borrowed7time ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Iron Cross 2nd class SS-Scharfuhrer posing. Note the SS-Schule Braunschweig cuff band, meaning he belongs to one of the SS-Junker schools (Leadership schools for officer candidates, SS-Junkers)4yr ⋅ el-isas ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Apologize for the blur. A Panzer IV with improvised winter camoflauge by using newspapers.4yr ⋅ xGALEBIRDx ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A Ferdinand Tank Destroyer at Kursk 1943. Interesting to see how the camo is visible in some areas and filthy in others.4yr ⋅ xGALEBIRDx ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German troops carrying a wounded comrade to safety during the invasion of Yugoslavia. April 1941.2yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A U.S. military policeman talks with two young German POWs, who have been loaded onto the Jeep for transport to the detention area after being caught sabotaging vehicles at the base, 1945.2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Captured Shermans on the go, they retain the Allied markings so this might be in the Ardennes offensive.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Timed airburst fire from 88mm guns operating as field artillery during the Battle of the Bulge in December 19444yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
British Challenger 1 towing a 7.5 cm Pak 40, a WW2 German 75 millimetre anti-tank gun after the war in Bosnia in 19963yr ⋅ conandivljak ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German citizens inspect a KV-2 heavy tank, part of an exhibition of captured Soviet vehicles in Kummersdorf, Germany, 1941.4yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Hauptmann Peter Kiesgen, recipient of the Knight’s Cross and five Tank Destruction badges, instructs young recruits how to operate the Panzerfaust in 1944.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Waffen-SS panzergrenadiers awaiting orders to initiate Operation Spring Awakening against superior Soviet forces - Hungary, March '453yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
One of the very first Panzer Pz.I delivered, they came without turret and superstructure just to be used a driver training units.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soldiers of the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Grossdeutschland light a cigarette on the battle field4yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Two grenadiers of LSSAH eat a slice of cold bread while sharing a foxhole in a forward outpost east of Malinovka, Russia. 19433yr ⋅ Mead530 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Russian officer of the pro-Nazi Russian Liberation Army (ROA) showing his decorations, 1944-1945. In addition to the Infantry Assault badge (in the breast pocket, containing a rifle with bayonet), the officer received four second-class Ostvolk medals. [429x618]1yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Manfred von Brauchitsch driving a W25K through the banked AVUS north turn in 1937. Brauchitsch won 3 Grand Prix races including Monaco. He was also the nephew of Field Marshall Walther von Brauchitsch.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soviet women and German soldiers shaking hands, (Original WWII caption by the Wehrmachtpropaganda under Joseph Goebbels: Ukrainian men and women thank our soldiers for their liberation, Ukraine Region, 1941/1942.4yr ⋅ Historynsnz ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1st left), Obergruppenfuhrer Sepp Dietrich (3rd left), Standartenfuhrer Kurt Meyer (2nd left), Oberfuhrer Fritz Witt (4th left) are watching the positions of the tanks, April 1944.3yr ⋅ Tsquare43 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Nazi SA paramilitaries outside Israel's Department Store in Berlin 1-April-1933. The signs read: Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews. The store was ransacked during the Kristallnacht in 1938 and then handed over to a non-Jewish family by the Nazis.3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soldiers of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, frantically load 88mm AP shells into a Tiger tank during the Battle of Kharkov '434yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb and General Georg von Kuchler observe the front lines. Eastern Front. September 1941. (800 x 571)1yr ⋅ drumdust ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Deutscher Fallschirmjager (paratrooper) in a shell hole during the Battle of the Italian monastery of Monte Cassino; 1944. He is armed with a MP 40 sub machine gun and in his right hand he holds a “egg” hand grenade.2yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Young volunteers talk to two knight's cross bearers of the Groß-Deutschland division, Feldwebel Hans Klein (links) and Oberfeldwebel Otto Brakat. January, 1944.3yr ⋅ Historynsnz ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, resting during a lull in fighting - Poland '394yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A child is raised to greet Adolf Hitler in his railcar. This pic puzzles me mostly because the suspicious striped woman's coat. May be somebody else has more info on it.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Neue JZ Illustrierte Zeitung propaganda magazine July 1941 showing a German bicycle infantry troop getting 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.3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Hitler greets women supporters in 1937. The attraction of Hitler to many German women was almost a borderline cult like phenomenon.1yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
This close-up of a captured German gun, in Grandvillers, France, shows apparent score of weapon on four American heavy bombers. 17 October, 19441yr ⋅ vitoskito ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Two StuGs on the banks of the Daugava River, Operation Bagration, Vitebsk, Belarus, 19442yr ⋅ RanardUSMC ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soldiers next to Panzer IV with turret and side skirts, as well as front armor reinforced with chain links, snow-covered road, Northern Soviet Union, Jan. 19443yr ⋅ Tsquare43 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Nazi Germany put Fallschirmjager (here in a Horch 901 four-wheel drive mid-size off-road passenger car) in the spotlight of their Victory propaganda parades in Germany after Crete.3yr ⋅ pulsedcone ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) of the Fallschirmjager-Regiment 5 with RZ 20 parachute and kneepads during training in Italy, 1943.3yr ⋅ haeyhae11 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Dr. Ernst Kupfer (2 July 1907 – 6 November 1943), Geschwaderkommodore of Sturzkampfgeschwader 2, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Location unknown, circa 19433yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Moving the Diesel engine of German U Boat U-593. U-593 was sunk on 13 December 1943 by USS Wainwright & HMS Calpe via depth charges in the Mediterranean Sea3yr ⋅ vitoskito ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Colorized photo of a soldier applying camouflage to a Jagdpanther. Note the square patterned zimmertt. 19444yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Generaloberst Guderian presents Golden Nahkampfspange to soldiers, March 19451yr ⋅ Karl-Heinz-Kulemeyer ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A column of German armor stopped along the road on the outskirts of a Russian city, early 1943.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German Panthers at Rouen (France) in 1944, probably waiting to cross the Seine River4yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German pioneers building a pontoon bridge near Kiev. September 1941.3yr ⋅ vitoskito ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Leutnant Friedrich Lengfeld, company commander of the 2nd Fusilier company of the 275th Infantry Division. During the battle of Hurtgen Forest he tried to help a wounded American soldier trapped in a mine field. While leading a medic team to the wounded GI he was killed by an antipersonnel mine.4yr ⋅ haeyhae11 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Grenadiere pass through a burning village during Unternehmen Barbarossa. USSR, 1941, colorized by Julius Jaaskelainen3yr ⋅ haeyhae11 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Many of the riflemen that the Allies encountered in Normandy received good marksmanship training from the Hitler Youth.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German sailors work hard to manually operate the cruiser Prinz Eugen rudder after it got disabled by a torpedo hit from the British sub HMS Trident, February 1942 (1200x780)4yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Three German motorcyclists from the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler on a motorcycle with a basket in a destroyed village on the Eastern Front, July 1941 [2405x3520]3yr ⋅ Borrowed7time ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soldiers of the 2nd SS Panzer-Division Das Reich, take cover from artillery fire during the Battle of Smolensk '414yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soldier of the SS-Verfugungstruppe, heavily armed with bicycle & spade in boot, continuing the advance into France4yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German street posters in Danzig as the Red Army approaches, warning soldiers that escaping with civilians will be treated as desertion. February 1945.2yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Leni Riefenstahl and German Soldiers watching the murder of Jewish men. Konskie, Poland. September 12, 19392yr ⋅ SpartanburgSheriff ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German soldiers armed with Panzerfausts await approaching Soviet tanks near Seelow heights. April 19452yr ⋅ Fallschirmsoldat ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
The 100,000th prisoner of war captured by the US First Infantry Division- an Unteroffizier of Panzerjager Abteilung 272, of Kampfgruppe Herian, captured in Hattenrode, Germany, on 23rd April 19452yr ⋅ conandivljak ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Hitler, General Witzleben, and SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Sepp Dietrich at the 1936 Summer Olympics.1yr ⋅ ATSTlover ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Incomplete German U-boats abandoned at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg, 4 May 1945.3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Luftwaffe pilot Adolf Galland preparing to take a gift basket of champagne and lobster for a general's birthday4yr ⋅ dnadosanddonts ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German soldier prepares to throw a hand grenade at an enemy trench.1yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Dug in German troops await the 1st Belorussian Front Army’s offensive through the Oderbruch plain. 3 March 19452yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A Heinkel He 100 in flight. Only 25 were ever built as the design was ultimately rejected by the RLM before the war. Those that were built would be used in numerous propaganda photos.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander-in-Chief of Army Group South, with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and German dictator Adolf Hitler on the Eastern Front, August 28, 19412yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
SS-Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen-SS Josef Sepp Dietrich (Commanding General of I. SS-Panzerkorps Leibstandarte and later commander of an SS army at the Battle of the Bulge). He is seen here chatting with photographer Heinrich Hoffmann at the Berghof in Berchtesgaden in spring 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German soldiers of the 9th SS Panzer Division “Hohenstaufen captured by British troops near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 18 September 1944.4yr ⋅ Historynsnz ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
New German soldiers are given helmets and clothing as they enter the service of the Third Reich; 19442yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German soldiers having fun at the coastal battery Lindemann, named after Ernst Lindemann, captain of the Bismarck battleship. Image taken at Pas-de-Calais, sometime in 19443yr ⋅ vitoskito ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
The crew of a StuG III Ausf. G checks out a knocked out T-34/76, USSR, Summer 19433yr ⋅ RanardUSMC ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soldiers of the Waffen SS suffer through the cold as they wait for a Soviet attack - Eastern front '444yr ⋅ IdleWild33 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
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 1944.3yr ⋅ Borrowed7time ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Many opponents of National Socialism died under the guillotine in the execution chamber of Plotzensee prison in Berlin3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Concentration camp SS female guards Charlotte Pilquet, Ruth Astrosini, Juana Bormann, Gertrude Feist, Gertrude Sauer, and Ida Forster in captivity, 2 May 1945.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German Sd.Kfz. 164 Nashorn tank destroyer in the Alps - 1944, Colorized4yr ⋅ Mastmat ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Fallschirmjager walking by a knocked out M4A3 Sherman. Note that while one man has a Panzerfaust another carries the much less common Panzerschreck. The photo dated 1944.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A German Jew proudly wears his iron cross from world war 1 as a brown shirt stands outside his establishment3yr ⋅ _o_h_n_o_ ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Hptm Hans-Ulrich Rudel after landing from his 1300th mission. This was also gunner OFw Hentschel’s 1000th mission, August 12 19433yr ⋅ Cadence-McShane ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Kriegsmarine personnel opens the Bismarck hangar to pull out an Arado Ar-196 reconnaissance seaplane. Question: were these the few Kriegsmarine pilots or were they dependent on the Luftwaffe too?3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Swimming pool built from Jewish tombstones by German Army Group E in Salonika3yr ⋅ SpartanburgSheriff ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Messerschmitt Bf 110 G heavy fighters attacking a formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberators4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Germans on their way to Stalingrad, passing a skeleton posted by the retreating Russians. Summer 19423yr ⋅ EugeniusFlavius ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A German soldier playing around with Bulgarian Children by letting them climb onto his Motorcycle. 19413yr ⋅ vitoskito ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and SS sergeant. He is the man on which the 1997 film Seven years in Tibet is based on.5mo ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A crowded medium bomber Ju-88 cabin, 1940. I never noticed the small curtains before.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A very young German solider taken into captivity by the British during the invasion of Normandy, 19444yr ⋅ Historynsnz ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
The Fallschirmjager parachute was simple with just one riser attached to the back of the harness. Advantage: lower opening altitude. Drawbacks: not steerable & brakable and Fallschirmjager hanging strange in forward position.4yr ⋅ pulsedcone ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
