Wehrmacht & Waffen-SS
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Wehrmacht soldier poses with a horse on the Eastern Front. Despite the Second World War was mainly mechanized, the use of the horse was still very frequent especially by the German (Panje) and the Soviet armies: 6 million horses were employed on the eastern front. . But also, there were cavalry divisions. For example, in 1941 the Red Army had 13 of them. On the German side, the Waffen SS used these divisions mostly to fight partisans in occupied countries.
September 13th, 1941. The 250th division of the Wehrmacht, formed by Spanish volunteers (Blue Division) heads towards the central sector of the Eastern Front to take a privileged role in the conquest of Moscow. After their training in Bavaria, they depart from Grafenwöhr in August to Suwalki, in the east of Poland. . Once there, the toughest part of the journey arrives: due to the lack of motorized transport, the Spaniards must cover almost 900 kilometers on foot to Smolensk. Then the soldiers will use again the railroad to be taken to Dno, near the battle front. The Division walked between 30 and 40 kilometers a day, in days of seven or eight hours. Hard shoes bother them. Soon they receive orders from the OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht): Moscow is no longer his goal, they must reinforce the siege to the city of Leningrad. . The image do not correspond with the date
The face of surrender. Colorized picture of General Friedrich Paulus on the day of his surrender to the Soviet troops in Stalingrad (January 31, 1943). Paulus was appointed to command the operations carried out in the city that definitively changed the course of the conflict. He was a methodical general, who limited himself to obeying the orders of the high command, being this short flexibility the one that definitively condemned the besieged troops, although the idea of attacking a city on the edge of a river (the Volga) and the persistence of Hitler for sending more resources to the front ended by condemning the sixth army. . The losses were around 300,000 soldiers of the axis. On the other hand, the attempt to open the siege from the north carried out by the Fourth Panzer Army of Hoth and Manstein had no result as Paulus preferred to keep the orders to resist rather than attack. Before the surrender, Hitler promoted him to field marshal, making Paulus face a difficult situation since no German field marshal had ever surrendered, urging his general to commit suicide. But this did not happen: Paulus valued more his life. He surrendered and returned to East Germany in 1953
June 4, 1942, Hitler meets with Marshal and future Finnish president Carl Mannerheim for his 75 birthday. Mannerheim is considered the main ally of Germany during Second World War, fighting directly with the Soviets during the Winter War (1939-1940) and the Continuation War (1941-1944). This conflict, despite being secondary, was crucial in several ways, as it contributed to the maintenance of Finland outside the Soviet sphere in the postwar period and convinced Hitler to attack the USSR looking at the weakness shown by his troops: even yielding territory, the Finns stopped the Soviets
The face of surrender. Colorized picture of General Friedrich Paulus on the day of his surrender to the Soviet troops in Stalingrad (January 31, 1943). Paulus was appointed to command the operations carried out in the city that definitively changed the course of the conflict. He was a methodical general, who limited himself to obeying the orders of the high command, being this short flexibility the one that definitively condemned the besieged troops, although the idea of attacking a city on the edge of a river (the Volga) and the persistence of Hitler for sending more resources to the front ended by condemning the sixth army. . The losses were around 300,000 soldiers of the axis. On the other hand, the attempt to open the siege from the north carried out by the Fourth Panzer Army of Hoth and Manstein had no result as Paulus preferred to keep the orders to resist rather than attack. Before the surrender, Hitler promoted him to field marshal, making Paulus face a difficult situation since no German field marshal had ever surrendered, urging his general to commit suicide. But this did not happen: Paulus valued more his life. He surrendered and returned to East Germany in 1953
Pioneers of the Handschar division at work in Bosnia, May 1944. It was taken around the time of Unternehmen (Operation) Maibaum which was one of the largest counter-insurgency operations of World War 2 and included the "sister-division" Prinz Eugen and other local NDH forces. The primary tasks of the division were to capture Tuzla and Zvornik, then drive south parallel with the Drina to meet other Corps element. The operation had not only stopped the Partisan 3rd Corps from crossing the Drina into Serbia, it had scattered the Partisan formation. On 6 May, V SS Mountain Corps ordered the division to return to the security zone north of the Spreča. Note, first from left is an ethnic German NCO
A German SS officer (possibly a member of the Prinz Eugen division) in conversation with an elderly Albanian (a member of a volunteer militia) in Montenegro. In the background, two Albanian SS men, members of the Skanderbeg division (one of whom replaced his military cap with a scarf), observe the conversation. The photo was taken during Unternehmen (Operation) Draufgänger, July-August 1944. The goal of the operation was to break the Partisan foothold on the Lima River which was a potential penetration point into Serbia. It was a Partisan victory.
This photo shows the Mufti Al-Husseini (on left) during one of his two visits to Handschar division in Neuhammer (November 1943 or January 1944). The Mufti is checking if sausages for Handschar are prepared in Halal-way. "Halal" in Arabic means "lawful", i.e. "Halal" meat is the meat Muslims are allowed to eat according to the "Holy" Kuran (like fish, beef, sheep etc,). Pork meat, on the other hand, is "Haram" (unlawful) and it's consummation is forbidden. The officer with a leather jacket is most likely the SS-Hauptsturmführer Gerhard Dierich (commander of the anti-tank battalion), while the slightly close behind is the SS-Standartenführer Franz Matheis (commander of the 28th Regiment), can't identify the others.
This photo shows the Mufti Al-Husseini (on left) during one of his two visits to Handschar division in Neuhammer (November 1943 or January 1944). The Mufti is checking if sausages for Handschar are prepared in Halal-way. "Halal" in Arabic means "lawful", i.e. "Halal" meat is the meat Muslims are allowed to eat according to the "Holy" Kuran (like fish, beef, sheep etc,). Pork meat, on the other hand, is "Haram" (unlawful) and it's consummation is forbidden. The officer with a leather jacket is most likely the SS-Hauptsturmführer Gerhard Dierich (commander of the anti-tank battalion), while the slightly close behind is the SS-Standartenführer Franz Matheis (commander of the 28th Regiment), can't identify the others.
Un oficial de la Wehrmacht Heer que perdió su brazo derecho en la batalla se sienta en un banco con su perro en un parque de Berlín, 1940.
Un soldado alemán se apresura a correr a través de los terrenos baldíos de los suburbios del norte. Los francotiradores soviéticos se encontraban en el área donde corría el soldado, por lo que ser disparado por un francotirador era un factor común en el que pensar al hacer estas carreras.
Un joven soldado de la división 110a Rifle del ejército soviético colgado por soldados alemanes .
Voluntarios daneses del Cuerpo Libre Waffen-SS "Danmark" están marchando a un campo militar en Langenhorn, 1941.
Dos soldados de Waffen-SS danesas moviéndose a lo largo de una trinchera estrecha. Note que uno de ellos se está moviendo con su Mg42. Esta foto fue tomada en 1944, . frente oriental.
personal de Einsatzgruppen se prepara para ejecutar judíos
Dos soldados de Waffen-SS danesas moviéndose a lo largo de una trinchera estrecha. Note que uno de ellos se está moviendo con su Mg42. Esta foto fue tomada en 1944, . frente oriental.
Tiger I. While the Tiger I has been called an outstanding design for its time, it was over-engineered, using expensive materials and labour-intensive production methods. The Tiger was prone to certain types of track failures and breakdowns, and was limited in range by its high fuel consumption. It was expensive to maintain, but generally mechanically reliable. It was difficult to transport, and vulnerable to immobilisation when mud, ice, and snow froze between its overlapping and interleaved Schachtellaufwerk-pattern road wheels, often jamming them solid. This was a problem on the Eastern Front in the muddy rasputitsa season and during periods of extreme cold. The tank was given its nickname "Tiger" by Ferdinand Porsche, and the Roman numeral was added after the later Tiger II entered production. The initial designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausführung H (‘‘Panzer VI version H’’, abbreviated PzKpfw VI Ausf. H) where 'H' denoted Henschel as the designer/manufacturer. It was classified with ordnance inventory designation SdKfz 182. The tank was later re-designated as PzKpfw VI Ausf. E in March 1943, with ordnance inventory designation SdKfz 181. Today, only seven Tiger I tanks survive in museums and private collections worldwide. The Tiger 131 at the UK's Tank Museum, which was captured during the North Africa Campaign, is currently the only one restored to running order.
Un oficial de la Wehrmacht Heer que perdió su brazo derecho en la batalla se sienta en un banco con su perro en un parque de Berlín, 1940.Un soldado alemán se apresura a correr a través de los terrenos baldíos de los suburbios del norte. Los francotiradores soviéticos se encontraban en el área donde corría el soldado, por lo que ser disparado por un francotirador era un factor común en el que pensar al hacer estas carreras.Un joven soldado de la división 110a Rifle del ejército soviético colgado por soldados alemanes .Voluntarios daneses del Cuerpo Libre Waffen-SS "Danmark" están marchando a un campo militar en Langenhorn, 1941.
Dos soldados de Waffen-SS danesas moviéndose a lo largo de una trinchera estrecha. Note que uno de ellos se está moviendo con su Mg42. Esta foto fue tomada en 1944, . frente oriental.personal de Einsatzgruppen se prepara para ejecutar judíos
Y el perro es un Dachshund...
soldier from the Deutsches Afrikakorps
Una mujer de los Sudetes de la zona que ahora es la República Checa saluda a las fuerzas alemanas conquistadoras mientras llora por la caída de su pueblo ante los nazis, alrededor de 1942-1945.
this picture you can see a young soldier armed with an Mg42.He is in the rank of an Gefreiter and is awarded the Allgemeine Sturmabzeichen (Asa) and the Iron Cross 2nd Class (Ek2)
Wehrmacht in Bucharest .
German mortar team marching behind a panzer III tank on Eastern front
Reichstag, Berlin, on 9th May in 1945.
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Soviet refugees in the Moscow region.
Gunner of the red Army on the streets of Berlin. He's armed with a PPSH with a box magazine. 1945
Two young infantrymen of the Wehrmacht were smoking in a trench. Soviet Union, 1942.
German soldiers are guarding those arrested in Yasenovka, Belostok region (now Jasionowka in Poland). Most likely, among the arrested are party workers and military personnel of the Red Army, who tried to escape partly in civilian clothes. 1941
Prisoners of the Red Army at the train before sending deep into Finland. 1940
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