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Adolf Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed. Eichmann said towards the end of the war that he would "leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction
German soldier sitting in the snow with his mg34.
A MG gunner shares a cigarette with a Hungarian soldier. (October)1944 during the Operation Panzerfaust.
Italy; January 1944
commander and gunner Panzer III ausf. N have a discussion in a moment of rest, on the Eastern Front.
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You can see from the uniforms the men are possibly part of a pioneering battalion, due to the Kampfpistole Model Z* flare gun on the commander's cupola, and what seems to be an extra antenna on the upper hull.
A few German soldiers
in a trench, I would say SS but not 100% sure. You can however clearly see that the soldier on the left is a officer. Because this man has a very nice great coat (I think he is wearing the standard issue great coat underneath it) lined with what looks like wool. This officer is also holding a captured ppd40 (Russian) submachine gun.
commander and gunner Panzer III ausf. N have a discussion in a moment of rest, on the Eastern Front.
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You can see from the uniforms the men are possibly part of a pioneering battalion, due to the Kampfpistole Model Z* flare gun on the commander's cupola, and what seems to be an extra antenna on the upper hull.
A few German soldiers
in a trench, I would say SS but not 100% sure. You can however clearly see that the soldier on the left is a officer. Because this man has a very nice great coat (I think he is wearing the standard issue great coat underneath it) lined with what looks like wool. This officer is also holding a captured ppd40 (Russian) submachine gun. Russia 1942.
Ss kursk, July 1943.
The Battle of Kursk occurred in July 1943 around the Soviet city of Kursk in western Russia, as Germany launched Operation Citadel, Hitler’s response to his devastating defeat by the Soviet Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle was Germany’s last chance to regain dominance on the Eastern Front during World War II and would be their final blitzkrieg offensive.
Despite a massive planned assault on Soviet troops using heavy tanks, artillery and air power, postponements by German dictator Adolf Hitler gave the Soviets ample time to prepare for the onslaught. Ultimately, Germany’s plan to wipe out the Red Army once and for all failed, but not before both sides experienced heavy casualties.
According to an article in ARMOR, Germany and Russia had reached an impasse by the winter of 1943 from Leningrad to the Black Sea. And at the center of the disputed area, a year’s worth of fighting had created a massive salient (an outward-protruding bulge of land on a battle line) approximately 150 miles from north to south and 100 miles from east to west. At the center of the salient lay the Russian city of Kursk.
The salient became known as the Kursk Bulge and was a strategic location for Germany. Hitler needed to prove to his allies, the Axis Powers, and to the world that Germany was still a formidable enemy and in control of the Eastern Front. He also wanted the tactical advantage of controlling Kursk’s railways and roads.
Soviet Sniper, Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin, looking through his scope while hidden in a bush in 1943. He had 494 kills by the time of his death in 1943.
HE was ranked 3rd in the list of deadliest sniper of WWII, according to warhistory online.
Ilyin had 494 confirmed kills. A locksmith before the war, he had to work hard to get to sniper level after joining the Red Army. He got most of his kills during the Battle of Stalingrad. Ilyin died in combat in 1943, and would later earn several high ranking awards once the war had ended in 1945, for his efforts.
Finnish soldier guarding the line at the Riihiö sector, October 1942.
The Battle of Kursk occurred in July 1943 around the Soviet city of Kursk in western Russia, as Germany launched Operation Citadel, Hitler’s response to his devastating defeat by the Soviet Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle was Germany’s last chance to regain dominance on the Eastern Front during World War II and would be their final blitzkrieg offensive.
Despite a massive planned assault on Soviet troops using heavy tanks, artillery and air power, postponements by German dictator Adolf Hitler gave the Soviets ample time to prepare for the onslaught. Ultimately, Germany’s plan to wipe out the Red Army once and for all failed, but not before both sides experienced heavy casualties.
According to an article in ARMOR, Germany and Russia had reached an impasse by the winter of 1943 from Leningrad to the Black Sea. And at the center of the disputed area, a year’s worth of fighting had created a massive salient (an outward-protruding bulge of land on a battle line) approximately 150 miles from north to south and 100 miles from east to west. At the center of the salient lay the Russian city of Kursk.
The salient became known as the Kursk Bulge and was a strategic location for Germany. Hitler needed to prove to his allies, the Axis Powers, and to the world that Germany was still a formidable enemy and in control of the Eastern Front. He also wanted the tactical advantage of controlling Kursk’s railways and roads.
Soviet Sniper, Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin, looking through his scope while hidden in a bush in 1943. He had 494 kills by the time of his death in 1943.
HE was ranked 3rd in the list of deadliest sniper of WWII, according to warhistory online.
Ilyin had 494 confirmed kills. A locksmith before the war, he had to work hard to get to sniper level after joining the Red Army. He got most of his kills during the Battle of Stalingrad. Ilyin died in combat in 1943, and would later earn several high ranking awards once the war had ended in 1945, for his efforts.
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A WWII-era propaganda poster for the Légion des Volontaires Français, an anti-Bolshevik militia that existed in Vichy France from 1941 until 1944. Though not part of any official military, it saw combat on the Eastern Front against the USSR.
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The LVF was formed in 1941 by a collection of authoritarian and populist leaders while Northern France was under the control of Nazi Germany. Though it fought under the banner of both Vichy France and Nazi Germany, it had no official connection to either state. The head of Vichy France, Philippe Pétain, personally disapproved of the movement as he did not approve of Frenchmen wearing the German uniform. However, it was recognized as having “public usefulness” in 1943.
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The militia voluntarily fought on the Eastern Front as a contingent of the Wehrmacht, and was officially known as the 638th Infantry Regiment. After WWII concluded with a spectacular Axis defeat, many high-ranking officers of the LVF were executed by the French government for collaborating with the enemy.
6th Army of the Wehrmacht under the Fire Against the Soviet Elements
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A WWII-era propaganda poster for the Légion des Volontaires Français, an anti-Bolshevik militia that existed in Vichy France from 1941 until 1944. Though not part of any official military, it saw combat on the Eastern Front against the USSR.
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The LVF was formed in 1941 by a collection of authoritarian and populist leaders while Northern France was under the control of Nazi Germany. Though it fought under the banner of both Vichy France and Nazi Germany, it had no official connection to either state. The head of Vichy France, Philippe Pétain, personally disapproved of the movement as he did not approve of Frenchmen wearing the German uniform. However, it was recognized as having “public usefulness” in 1943.
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The militia voluntarily fought on the Eastern Front as a contingent of the Wehrmacht, and was officially known as the 638th Infantry Regiment. After WWII concluded with a spectacular Axis defeat, many high-ranking officers of the LVF were executed by the French government for collaborating with the enemy.
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Polish soldiers of the Independent Podhale Rifle Brigade taking the oath in Malestroit, Brittany, France. April 10, 1940.
After the Polish defeat in the Polish September Campaign, the Podhale units were recreated in France as the Polish Independent Highland Brigade, it had seen some action at Narvik, and later fought in the Battle of France and moved into Switzerland upon the French defeat. Some units were also created in the underground as part of the partisan forces of the Armia Krajowa. The traditions of the Podhale Rifles are continued by the modern 21st Podhale Rifles Brigade.
After the Polish defeat in the Polish September Campaign, the Podhale units were recreated in France as the Polish Independent Highland Brigade, it had seen some action at Narvik, and later fought in the Battle of France and moved into Switzerland upon the French defeat. Some units were also created in the underground as part of the partisan forces of the Armia Krajowa. The traditions of the Podhale Rifles are continued by the modern 21st Podhale Rifles Brigade.
Soldiers of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS reading Mein Kampf, 1943-45
German soldiers enjoy food and drink with the local population during the invasion of Yugoslavia, April 1941
Soviet Red Army mortar crew driving in front of the Austrian parliament building in Vienna in their American made off-road Dodge WC-51, towing two 120mm mortars, April, 1945.
German soldiers enjoy food and drink with the local population during the invasion of Yugoslavia, April 1941
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Sturmbannführer Max Hansen, Commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Waffen SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. Hansen is monitoring the action in the Zhytomyr Region on the Eastern Front
A female Soviet Red Army soldier conducts traffic along the Sevastapol-Yalta highway, Crimea, May 1944
A young German soldier surrenders to US Army soldiers in France, 1944
Gunner Guard Yefim Costin, who was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Leningrad Front, August 1944
infanteria motorizada alemana en las afueras de Niš, empujando hacia Belgrado. Cuando se habla de Blitzkrieg, las personas a menudo se refieren al ataque a Polonia, junto con la invasión de Francia y los países bajos. Sin embargo, la invasión de Yugoslavia, que ocurrió en una fecha muy posterior, fue nuevamente un verdadero ejemplo del poder motorizado alemán. El Real Ejército Yugoslavo luchó duro, pero fue mal liderado y los soldados estaban mal equipados, algo que la batalla actual endureció y el gran Ejército Alemán no tenía que preocuparse. En un intento por llegar a Grecia y Creta, Yugoslavia cae en apenas una semana. El ataque se denominó en clave Operación "25" y, en cierto modo, sirvió como venganza personal de Hitler. Belgrado se rindió sin luchar y fue bombardeado después de la rendición. El rey huye, mientras que el resto del jefe de personal y el ejército firman la rendición justo en las afueras de Sarajevo, en Pale. La fecha fue 18 de abril de 1941.
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French village, May of 1940.
A NCO of the Luftwaffe Feld-Division 18 (far left) and his men advance down a street of a battle-ravaged town, clad in Splittertarnmuster (Splinter) camouflage. The man in the center is most likely a junior squad leader, indicated by the MP40 he carries, and the map case obscured by his helmet. Northern France, 21st of June, 1944.
A heavy MG34 team from Infantry Regiment “Großdeutschland” pictured just after the battle of Moscow, January, 1941. Note the use of makeshift winter camouflage helmet covers.
Waffen-SS men with a 5cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun and VW Kübelwagen parked off to the side to identify the men from the air. Balkans, mid 1941. Notice the MG34 team on the side of the road, positioned to give the Pak team cover if they come under attack.
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