Photos of Nazis during the Second World War. Archival photos of the Second World War
Friends and readers of the site about the most interesting facts in the world is approaching 70th anniversary of the victory V . In 2011, it was published on our portal A series of rare photographs dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. This year we decided to supplement this series with several dozen, and maybe hundreds of interesting photographs taken during the war. In this article we publish 37 rare photographs.
Lieutenant Sergei Vasilyevich Achkasov (1919 - 03/14/1943), which carried out two air rams on the Voronezh front, against a MiG-3 fighter.
Lieutenants Pyotr Andreevich Adkin (far right) and Alexander Andreevich Guivik (second from left) with colleagues.
Leonid Utesov on the wing of a La-5F fighter, built with funds from his ensemble “Jolly Fellows”. The moment the vehicle was handed over to the troops.
Flying boat PBY-5A "Catalina" (PBY-5A Catalina) US Coast Guard for repairs in a frozen bay on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Pilot Boris Eremin on a Yak-1B fighter with a dedicatory inscription “To the pilot of the Stalingrad Front of the Guard, Major Eremin, from the collective farmer of the Stakhanovets collective farm, comrade. Holovaty."
Pilot Semyon Sibirin congratulates his French colleague Albert Littolf on another victory.
Pilots of the separate aviation squadron "Normandy" and the 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment near the Yak-1B aircraft.
Aces pilots of the 9th Guards Aviation Division from the Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter G.A. Rechkalova.
Battleship Arizona (USS Arizona), sunk by Japanese aircraft on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
A London boy on the ruins of his house, where his parents died after being hit by a German V-2 rocket.
A boy of about seven years old at the site of the last battle, near the exploded Soviet T-34-85 tank. Two more of the same tanks are visible behind.
Maria Dementievna Kucheryavaya, 1918 the year of birth,
medical lieutenant. At the front from June 22, 1941. In September 1941, during the fighting on the Crimean Peninsula, she received a shell shock.
Maria Dolina, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guard captain, deputy squadron commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Division.
Maria Timofeevna Shalneva (Nenakhova), a corporal of the 87th separate road maintenance battalion, regulates the movement of military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin.
March of captured Germans across Moscow - ahead of thousands of columns of soldiers and officers are a group of 19 German generals.
Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov and General D. Eisenhower in Leningrad. D. Eisenhower's visit to Moscow and Leningrad took place in mid-August 1945 after the personal invitation of G. K. Zhukov.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov photographed outdoors.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev(1897-1973) and American General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) at a meeting in April 1945.
Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, getting out of the car on the street of Budapest, receives a report from a subordinate.
A medic from the 48th Medical Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, bandages a wounded German soldier.
Less than six months later, during the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad, this army would be surrounded and defeated. On February 2, 1943, the 6th Army surrendered.
Mikhail Egorov and Meliton Kantaria come with a banner to the roof of the Reichstag. Although this was not the first red banner installed on the Reichstag, it was the one that became the Victory Banner.
Japanese Intelligence Junior Lieutenant Hiro Onoda surrenders to Philippine authorities.
Junior Sergeant Konstantin Aleksandrovich Shuty(06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shutoy, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.
Junior sergeant, mortarman - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kyiv. 1st Ukrainian Front.
The grave of an American pilot made from 12.7 mm caliber cartridges from the machine guns of his P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. The grave was made on August 8, 1944 by a French refugee couple.
The grave of Soviet soldiers (judging by the three Soviet helmets) and the Maxim machine gun. In the background you can see more than a dozen graves - already German (the helmets on the posts are German).
A US 5th Division Marine killed by a Japanese sniper, shot in the head (a bullet hole is visible on his helmet).
1. Bound Jews protected by Lithuanian auxiliary guards. 1941
2. A column of Jewish women and children under the escort of the Lithuanian “self-defense”.
Time taken: 1941
Filming location: Lithuania, USSR
3. Jewish residents of the city of Siauliai before being sent to be shot near the Kuzhiai station.
Time taken: July 1941
Filming location: Lithuania, USSR
4. Famous photograph the execution of the last Jew of Vinnitsa, made by an officer of the German Einsatzgruppen, which was engaged in the execution of persons subject to extermination (primarily Jews). The title of the photograph was written on the back of it.
Vinnitsa was occupied by German troops on July 19, 1941. Some of the Jews living in the city managed to evacuate. The remaining Jewish population was imprisoned in a ghetto. On July 28, 1941, 146 Jews were shot in the city. In August, executions resumed. On September 22, 1941, most of the prisoners in the Vinnitsa ghetto were exterminated (about 28,000 people). Artisans, workers and technicians whose labor was needed by the German occupation authorities were left alive.
5. Sending Slovak Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Time taken: March 1942
Filming location: Poprad station, Slovakia
6. Rabbis in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
7. Jewish rabbis in the Warsaw ghetto
8. SS soldiers guard a column of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto. Liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto after the uprising.
Photo from Jürgen Strop's report to Heinrich Himmler in May 1943. The original German headline reads: "Forcibly pushed out of shelter." One of the most famous photographs from the Second World War.
9. Fey Shulman with Soviet partisans in the forest. Fay Shulman was born into a large family on November 28, 1919 in Poland. On August 14, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from Lenin's ghetto, including Faye's parents, sister and younger brother. They only spared 26 people, including Faye. Faye later fled into the forests and joined a partisan group consisting mainly of escaped Soviet prisoners of war.
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10. Line of Red Army prisoners of war.
1941
The propaganda caption for the photo read: “Among the captured Soviet soldiers there is a woman - even she has stopped resisting. This is a “woman soldier” and at the same time a Soviet commissar who forced Soviet soldiers to fiercely resist until the last bullet.”
11. A German patrol leads captured Soviet soldiers in disguise. Kyiv, September 1941
Time taken: September 1941
Filming location: Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR
12. Killed Soviet prisoners of war on the streets of Kyiv. One of them is dressed in a tunic and riding breeches, the other in underwear. Both took off their shoes, bare feet in the mud - they walked barefoot. The dead have emaciated faces. Eyewitnesses recall that when the prisoners were driven through the streets of Kyiv, the guards shot those who could not walk.
The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kyiv by German war photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German Army that captured the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.
13. Soviet prisoners of war, under the supervision of the SS men, cover the area of Babi Yar with earth where the executed people lie. The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kyiv by German war photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German Army that captured the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.
Babi Yar is a tract in Kyiv that became notorious as the site of mass executions of civilians and prisoners of war carried out by German occupation forces. Here, 752 patients of the psychiatric hospital were shot. Ivan Pavlov, at least 40 thousand Jews, about 100 sailors of the Dnieper detachment of the Pinsk military flotilla, arrested partisans, political workers, underground workers, NKVD workers, 621 members of the OUN (A. Melnik faction), at least five gypsy camps. According to various estimates, from 70,000 to 200,000 people were shot at Babi Yar in 1941-1943.
Half-covered trees and bushes at the bottom indicate that the slopes of the ravine were blown up. Some of the prisoners are in civilian clothes. These are probably those who managed to change clothes to escape captivity, but were identified. Along the edges of the ditch stand SS guards, with rifles on their shoulders and helmets on their belts.
14. Soviet soldiers captured near Vyazma. October 1941.
Time taken: October 1941
15. Captured Soviet colonel. Barvenkovsky boiler. May 1942.
In the area of the city of Barvenkovo, Kharkov region, at the end of May 1942, the 6th and 57th were surrounded soviet armies. As a result of the unsuccessful offensive, 170 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army died or were captured, including the commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General A. Gorodnyansky, and the commander of the 57th Army, Lieutenant General K. Podlas, who went missing.
Time taken: May 1942
16. A captured Red Army soldier showing the Germans the commissars and communists.
17. Red Army prisoners of war in the camp.
18. Soviet prisoners of war. There are two wounded in the center.
19. A German security guard lets his dogs have fun with a “live toy.”
20. Soviet workers during forced labor at a mining enterprise in Beuthen (Upper Silesia) during a break.
Time taken: 1943
Filming location: Germany
21. Captured Red Army soldiers at work in winter.
22. Captured Lieutenant General A.A. Vlasov, the future head of the Russian Liberation Army, being interrogated by Colonel General Lindemann after surrendering to German captivity. August 1942
Time taken: August 1942
23. Soviet prisoners of war with German officers in Germany. Disposal of unexploded bombs.
24. A Soviet prisoner of war, after the complete liberation of the Buchenwald camp by American troops, points to a former guard who brutally beat prisoners.
Time taken: 04/14/1945
25. A US Army doctor examines a Soviet forced laborer suffering from tuberculosis. He was taken to forced labor in Germany in the coal mines in the city of Dortmund.
Time taken: 04/30/1945
26. Soviet child next to his murdered mother. Concentration camp for civilians "Ozarichi". , Ozarichi town, Domanovichi district, Polesie region. March 1944
Time taken: March 1944
27. Liberated children from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Time taken: January 1945
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28. Captured German soldiers in Leningrad.
Time taken: 1942
Filming location: Leningrad
29. French from SS and Wehrmacht units in front of General Leclerc from the Free French
French prisoners from SS and Wehrmacht units in front of General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd Armored Division of the Free French.
The prisoners behaved with dignity and even defiantly. When General Leclerc called them traitors and said: “How could you, the French, wear someone else’s uniform?” one of them replied: “You yourself wear someone else’s uniform - an American one!” (the division was equipped by the Americans). They say this angered Leclerc, and he ordered the prisoners shot.
30. German prisoners of war in line to receive food. South of France.
Time taken: September 1944
Filming location: France
31. German prisoners of war are led through the Majdanek concentration camp. In front of the prisoners on the ground lie the remains of death camp prisoners, and the crematorium ovens are also visible. Outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin.
Time taken: 1944
Filming location: Lublin, Poland
32. Return of German prisoners of war from Soviet captivity. The Germans arrived at the Friedland border transit camp.
Friedland.
Filming time: 1955
Location: Friedland, Germany
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33. Captured young German soldiers from the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" under escort military police 3rd US Army. These guys were captured in December 1944 during the Allied operation in the Bulge.
Time taken: 01/07/1945
34. Fifteen-year-old German anti-aircraft gunner from the Hitler Youth - Hans Georg Henke, captured by soldiers of the 9th US Army in the city of Giessen, Germany.
Time taken: 03/29/1945
Filming location: Giessen, Germany
35. Fourteen-year-old German teenagers, soldiers from the Hitler Youth, captured by units of the 3rd US Army in April 1945. Berstadt, province of Hesse, Germany.
Time taken: April 1945
Location: Berstadt, Germany
36. Adolf Hitler awards young members of the Hitler Youth in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery. This is one of latest photos Hitler. In the center, awarded with Iron Crosses 2nd class, are young natives of Silesia: second from right is 12-year-old Alfred Czech, third from right is 16-year-old Willi Hubner, the latter also known from a photograph with Dr. Goebbels in Lauban.
Time taken: 03/23/1945
37. Adolf Hitler awards young members of the Hitler Youth in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery.
38. A boy from the Hitler Youth, armed with a Panzerfaust grenade launcher. The so-called “Last hope of the Third Reich”.
39. Sergeant Francis Daggert with a German soldier, the soldier is only 15 years old. A dozen of these were caught in the German city of Kronach.
Filming time: Kronach, Germany
Location: 04/27/1945
40. Column of prisoners on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground " last hope Germany" boys from the Hitler Youth and Volkssturm.
Time taken: May 1945
Filming location: Berlin, Germany
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41. Soviet children clean the boots of German soldiers. Bialystok, November 1942
Time taken: November 1942
Filming location: Bialystok, Belarus, USSR
42. 13-year-old partisan intelligence officer Fedya Moshchev. Author's annotation to the photo - “The boy was found German rifle"; It's probably a standard Mauser 98K with the stock sawed off to make it easier for the boy to handle.
Time taken: October 1942
43. The commander of the rifle battalion, Major V. Romanenko (in the center), tells the Yugoslav partisans and residents of the village of Starchevo (in the Belgrade area) about the military affairs of the young intelligence officer - Corporal Vitya Zhaivoronka. Back in 1941, near the city of Nikolaev, Vitya joined a partisan detachment; in 1943, he voluntarily joined one of the units of the Red Army that stormed Dnepropetrovsk, for participating in battles with the Nazis on Yugoslav soil awarded the order Red Star. 2nd Ukrainian Front.
Stars. 2nd Ukrainian Front.
Time taken: October 1944
Location: Starčevo, Yugoslavia
44. Young partisan Pyotr Gurko from the detachment “For Soviet Power”. Pskov-Novgorod partisan zone.
Time taken: 1942
45. The commander of a partisan detachment presents the medal “For Courage” to a young partisan reconnaissance. The fighter is armed with a 7.62 mm Mosin rifle.
Time taken: 1942
46. Soviet teenage partisan Kolya Lyubichev from the partisan unit A.F. Fedorov with a captured German 9-mm MP-38 submachine gun in a winter forest.
Nikolai Lyubichev survived the war and lived to an old age.
Time taken: 1943
47. Portrait of 15-year-old partisan reconnaissance Misha Petrov from the Stalin detachment with a captured German 9-mm MP-38 submachine gun. The fighter is belted with a Wehrmacht soldier's belt, and behind his boot is a Soviet anti-personnel grenade RGD-33.
Time taken: 1943
Location: Belarus, USSR50. The regiment's son Volodya Tarnovsky signs an autograph on a Reichstag column
The son of the regiment, Volodya Tarnovsky, signs an autograph on a Reichstag column. He wrote: " Seversky Donets- Berlin,” and signed for himself, the regiment commander and his fellow soldier who supported him from below: “Artillerymen Doroshenko, Tarnovsky and Sumtsov.”
51. Son of the regiment.
52. Sergeant S. Weinshenker and Technical Sergeant William Topps with the son of the 169th Air Base Regiment special purpose. Name unknown, age - 10 years old, served as an assistant weapons technician. Poltava airfield.
Time taken: 1944
Filming location: Poltava, Ukraine, USSR
A selection of rarely seen photos, some of them are associated with interesting stories.
In March 1974, 29 years after the end of World War II, Japanese intelligence officer and officer Hiro Onoda surrendered on Lubang Island, Philippines. Having been relieved of his duties by his commander, he surrendered Samurai sword, a rifle with 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades. Onoda was sent to Lubang in 1944 with the task of joining the reconnaissance group operating on the island and waging guerrilla warfare against the Americans. The Allies captured the island, three of Onoda's comrades died in the battle, and the four surviving members of the group went into the jungle and carried out raids from there. Several times they received leaflets and letters from relatives, but they did not believe the “propaganda.” In 1950, one of Onoda's comrades surrendered. By 1972, two more soldiers were killed in clashes with Philippine patrols, leaving Onoda alone. In 1974, Onoda came across the Japanese naturalist Norio Suzuki, from whom he learned about the end of the war and through whom Onoda was found by his commander and ordered to surrender. Behind long years The guerrilla group killed 30 Filipinos and wounded about a hundred, but President Marcos pardoned Onoda, and he returned to Japan. Hiro Onoda died on January 17, 2013 at the age of 91.
A shell hit a boat with Australians.
The result of a 152-mm ISU-152 projectile hitting the Pz.IV turret.
German Ju-87D dive bomber on an assembly line.
British Beaufighter attack aircraft attack German destroyers with missiles at the mouth of the Gironde River.
A homemade mirror mounted on the canopy of a German Bf-109E fighter is a British solution that allows pilots of German fighters to control the rear hemisphere. So, by the way, for some reason it did not go into production until the end of the war.
The falling torpedo bomber B5N2 "Kate" is captured by the gunner of a naval bomber PB4Y "Liberator" over the sea near Truk. In the rear cockpit you can see the gunner of the torpedo bomber, who, according to the Liberator pilot, Lieutenant Commander William Janeshek, first tried to get out of the burning car, then suddenly returned, sat down in his seat and died along with the plane.
Gunner of the tail point of a heavy German bomber He-177.
The tail cone of the German Fw-189 reconnaissance aircraft.
German technicians are servicing the heavy twin-engine fighter Me-410. A remote-controlled barbette with its casing removed and a heavy 13-mm MG 131 machine gun installed is clearly visible.
The cockpit of the largest transport aircraft of that time - the German Me-323.
A Japanese bomb explodes on the deck of the aircraft carrier Enterprise during the battle off the Eastern Solomon Islands. The author of the photo, Robert Reed, died the second he pressed the shutter button.
Lieutenant A.I. Gridinsky (far left) and his comrades in the 144th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment near the Il-2 attack aircraft.
Deputy commander of the guard squadron, Lieutenant Alexander Ivanovich Gridinsky (09/14/1921 - 06/07/1944) on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since June 1942. In less than 2 years at the front, Gridinsky made 156 combat missions, saved the life of his commander, personally destroyed 20 enemy aircraft, 35 tanks, 3 anti-aircraft batteries, 90 vehicles, 4 gas tanks with fuel, and crossed the Dnieper.
On 06/07/1944, Gridinsky’s lone plane was attacked over its airfield by four German fighters. As a result of the battle, having shot down one of the attackers, Gridinsky himself was shot down and his attack aircraft fell on the edge of the airfield. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 6, 1965, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against by the German invaders and the courage and heroism demonstrated by Alexander Ivanovich Gridinsky was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Flagship (of the regiment commander's aircraft) air gunner of the Soviet Il-2 attack aircraft, Sergeant Major P. Shulyakov. In the foreground is a 12.7 mm UBT (universal Berezina turret) machine gun.
Inside the hull of the self-propelled gun Geschutzwagen (GW) VI Tiger ( World players of Tanks pee with boiling water).
Hull of Geschutzwagen (GW) VI Tiger.
Technicians are firing the wing cannons on the tropical version of the Emil.
Pearl Harbor, 1945
Actor Damian Lewis ("Band of Brothers") and Major Richard Winters.
Inside a B-17.
An aerial view of bomb explosions during a bombing raid over Poland in September 1939.
One of the few photos of a really shot down B-29. The plane was attacked by a Japanese Ki-45, lost two engines, on the way to the base over the ocean the wing tank caught fire, and the crew bailed out and were rescued in full.
Preparing the Comet for departure.
B-24J-150-CO Liberator, 854th BS, 491st BG, 8th AF, September 18, 1944. He was dropping food and ammunition to the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and was hit by anti-aircraft guns. The pilot tried to land the plane on its belly, but at the last moment both right engines failed and the plane hit the ground. The pilot managed to level it, but the plane hit the trees at the end of the field and exploded. One person survived, all the others died.
A battery of Soviet guards mortars fires at enemy positions in Budapest. 1945
The cruiser "Mikuma" after an American air raid.
The sinking of the aircraft carrier Zuikaku.
A bomb hits the battleship Yamato.
"Haruna" under bombs.
Direct hit by a B-25 bomb on a Japanese patrol ship.
Western Ukraine.
Damaged and dismantled for spare parts "Royal Tiger".
A leaflet issued in the USA with possible changes in Hitler's appearance.
38 cm RW61 auf Sturmmörser Tiger.
Hungarian soldiers captured by units of the 144th Rifle Regiment of the 49th Guards Rifle Division. Veteran of this division V.V. Wojciechovich in his interview mentions an exceptional case that occurred at the beginning of 1945 in Hungary. According to him, units of the 144th Infantry Regiment captured a group of about sixty Hungarian soldiers and officers who turned to the regiment command with an unusual request. In exchange for being immediately released, these Hungarians offered ... to recapture from the Germans either a village or a town that was located in front of the positions of the 144th regiment.
The proposal was so unusual that even division commander Vasily Filippovich Margelov, known for his independence in decision-making (later the legendary commander Airborne troops USSR) did not dare to approve this, and turned to the command. The request went up the chain, and only the commander of the 46th Army, Petrushevsky, personally gave permission for this. And these Hungarians really captured this settlement, destroying many Germans in the process... They had to keep their word, and these Hungarians were immediately sent home.
The photograph shows these same Hungarians before that battle.
P-47D-10 (No. 42-23038) from 73 Squadron 318 Group 7 air fleet(pilot Lt Eubanks Barnhill) takes off from the deck of the Manila Bay ship to intercept 4 Japanese dive bombers attacking a group of ships. January 23, 1944. Thanks exclusively to a fortunate combination of circumstances (headwind, half-empty deck, practically empty tanks and only a few dozen rounds of ammunition in the outermost machine guns of the vehicle), the Thunderbolt managed to take off and even shoot down one D3A and damage the second. Under normal circumstances this would be impossible.
Trophy "Ferdinand".
On February 14, 1945, 62 B-17 bombers of the American Eighth Air Force "accidentally" dropped 152 tons of bombs on Prague.
Consequences of ammunition detonation.
Jet Jumo-004, installed on the Me-262.
Main battery salvo from the battleship Missouri. The fired shells are visible.
Dornier Do 217 with Henschel Hs-293 glide bomb.
A Soviet self-propelled gun completely destroyed after an ammunition explosion artillery installation ISU-152. The self-propelled gun was destroyed during the battle of Tali-Ikhantala (June 25 - July 9, 1944) on the Karelian Isthmus.
A torpedo hit the British escort destroyer Berkeley.
Soviet soldier with a Czech child in his arms. The kid examines the Order of Glory on the soldier’s chest. Prague, May 1945
"Royal Tiger" with a 75-mm gun from the "Panther" installed, in the absence of an 88-mm cannon.
The ceremonial formation of the personnel of the 144SP 49SD, May 1945. The photograph is notable for the fact that many of the soldiers are wearing German helmets, because their own were lost in battle.
Replacing the rollers of the Panther chassis. Most accurately, this operation can be described as violent and prolonged sex, accompanied by loud and, characteristically, completely sincere wishes to the designer.
“Nevertheless, the Tigers were an extremely dangerous enemy, but, fortunately, they still had one weak point. This place was their chassis... There are countless epithets with which the brutal German mechanics awarded the engineer Kniepkamp, changing the rollers on the monstrous colossus. Since it took up to a day to replace one roller from the inner row, many could not stand it, foamed at the mouth and rushed at the Tiger with a crowbar, beating the innocent vehicle with anything. It is known that the tankers who fought on the Tiger did not fight until their death. could not only eat from the plates, but also see them. The sight of a stack of plates could give a heart attack to a seasoned warrior who had gone through the Russian campaign and prisoner of war camps. A fight, monstrous in size and cruelty, between Luftwaffe and Panzerwaffe officers, which occurred in May 1944 in a bar "Drei Ferkels und Sieben Gnomen Bar" in Berlin, a fight that put two Geschwaders and one Schwerepanzerabtelung out of action for three months, occurred because of a seemingly completely innocent joke. The SS Standartenführer, who was drinking with the pilots, sent on their behalf a pile of plates stacked in a checkerboard pattern to the tankers' table... The investigation did not establish the identity of the Standartenführer. The Luftwaffe officers in the hospital recalled that his name was Otto, Otto von... they could not remember further. However, everyone agreed that he reminded them of someone. As a result, the tankers and pilots were separated with the help of fire hoses, and the fighters did not even notice the raid of thousands of American bombers.
A little more "German porn".
American 914 mm (36-inch) recoilless mortar "Little David". Created to fight Japanese fortifications. Firing was carried out with 1678 kg shells at a range of up to 8.7 km. Successfully passed the tests, but real battle not used.
Transport Junkers under attack by an allied bomber.
The Allies used German prisoners to clear minefields, which was contrary to the Geneva Convention. We did not treat prisoners in this way, although, it should be noted, not at all because of considerations of humanity.
A Japanese prisoner of war listens to a broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's speech announcing Japan's surrender.
And again some real German porn.
Nibelwerfer salvo in Warsaw.
V-1 reached the target.
The Japanese "pecked" an American tank.
"Tirpitz" on its side. The picture was taken from a British reconnaissance aircraft.
"Betties" come in for a torpedo attack.
Firing the wing armament of a Ju-87 "Stuka" dive bomber.
Captured Red Army soldiers. 1941.
A captured Red Army soldier from an assault detachment.
Non-111 at the exit from a torpedo attack.
A captured Pe-2 in the Finnish Air Force, purchased from Germany.
The death of the British landing fire support ship LCG (M) 101. 1944.
American mast ships sink a Japanese Kaibokan S-class patrol ship.
Cruiser "Red Caucasus", December 29, 1941
A 150-mm shell pierced the frontal armor of the 2nd main battery turret and exploded inside. Despite the death of the crew and the resulting fire, the cruiser remained in battle. The tower returned to service after an hour and a half.
Burnt out and dismantled german tank Pz.Kpfw.III on Tigris Street in Budapest.
A 600 mm Karl Gerät 040 "Ziu" mortar shell hit the Prudential building, Warsaw, 08/28/1944. The shell exploded outside, otherwise the skyscraper would have collapsed. After the war, the building was rebuilt and since 1954 it has been known as the Warsaw Hotel.
The Sherman crew desperately wants to live by welding pieces of Panther armor onto their tank. The car became monstrously heavy.
In fact, one would be enough. But the Germans, apparently, were just training.
In the photograph, a Lithuanian self-defense fighter finishes off wounded Jews with a crowbar. A young man, approximately 16 years old, with his sleeves rolled up, was armed with an iron crowbar. They brought a person from a nearby group of people to him, and he killed him with one or several blows to the back of the head. Thus, in less than an hour, he killed all 45–50 people... After everyone was killed, the young man put the crowbar aside, went for the accordion and climbed onto the bodies of the dead lying nearby. Standing on the mountain, he played the Lithuanian national anthem. The behavior of the civilians standing around, including women and children, was incredible - after each blow with a crowbar they applauded, and when the killer played the Lithuanian anthem, the crowd took him up.
A prisoner from the assault squads. The protective breastplate shows traces of bullets fired from a submachine gun. Protected me from bullets, but didn’t save me from captivity...
The photo shows General Patton angry about his conversation with the tank commander. Patton was against disfiguring the appearance of tanks with foreign objects, saying that everything should be uniform in the army. And the tank commander answered him that, with all due respect, sir, it’s up to me to fight on it. Patton had nothing to say and this infuriated him.
If you look closely at this military beauty, you can imagine its teeth, and the gaps filled with human flesh. Yes, that’s how it was: any military beauty is human death.
(Total 45 photos)
1. Defensive line "Siegfried" on the western border of Germany. A very powerful and beautiful line. The Americans stormed the line for more than six months. We dealt with the lines much faster - it’s a well-known fact: we weren’t behind the price.
2. A German soldier with children in an occupied Soviet village. The two smallest boys are tarring cigarettes. The German, as a distinctly kind person, was embarrassed by his kindness
3. Irma Hedwig Silke, employee of the Abwehr cipher department. Beautiful perky girl. A man of any nationality would be happy. And it looks like!!! ...If I had kissed you, I would have closed my eyes.
4. German mountain rangers in the Narvik area in Norway. 1940 Brave soldiers, they really saw death. Without combat experience, we “never dreamed of” their knowledge, no matter how much we read. However, they have not changed. Maybe not for long, the new experience did not have time to settle into the changes recorded in the wrinkles, but here they are, they have survived and are looking at us from there, from their own. The easiest way to dismiss it is “fascists.” But they are fascists - secondly, or even fourthly (like the commander of "Count von Spee", who bought the lives of his people at the cost of his life) - firstly, they are people who just survived and won. And others lay down forever. And we can only borrow from this experience. And it’s good that we only borrow and not receive. Because... - it’s clear.
5. The crew of the twin-engine Messer - 110E Zerstörer after returning from a combat mission. We are happy, not because we are alive, but because we are very young.
6. Eric Hartmann himself. Eric drifted on first flight, lost leader, was attacked Soviet fighter, barely pulled away and finally landed the car in a field, on its belly - the fuel ran out. He was attentive and careful, this pilot. and learned quickly. That's all. Why didn't we have these? Because we were flying on crap, and we weren’t allowed to study, only to die.
7. ...How easy it is to distinguish the best fighter even among military professionals. Find here Dietrich Hrabak, the Hauptmann who shot down 109 planes on the Eastern Front and another 16 on the Western Front, as if he had enough to remember for the rest of his life. In this photo, taken in 1941, on the tail of his car (Me 109) there are only 24 coffins - signs of victory.
8. The radio operator of the German submarine U-124 writes something in the telegram log. U-124 is German Submarine type IXB. Such a small, very strong and deadly vessel. During 11 campaigns, she sank 46 transports with a total tonnage. 219,178 tons, and 2 warships with a total displacement of 5775 tons. The people in it were very lucky and those with whom she met were unlucky: death at sea is a cruel death. But the future for the submariners would not have been any more pleasant - their fate would have just been a little different. It’s strange that we, looking at this photo, can still say anything about them. One can only remain silent about those who survived there, behind the “100” mark, hiding from depth charges. They lived, and, oddly enough, they were saved. Others died, and their victims - well, that was the war.
9. Arrival of the German submarine U-604 at the base of the 9th submarine flotilla in Brest. The pennants on the deckhouse show the number of ships sunk - there were three. In the foreground on the right is the commander of the 9th flotilla, captain-lieutenant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, a well-fed, cheerful man who knows his job well. Very accurate and very difficult. And - deadly.
10. Germans in a Soviet village. It's warm, but the soldiers in the cars are not relaxing. After all, they can be killed, and almost all of them were killed. Tea is not the Western Front.
12. German and dead horses. A soldier's smile is a habit of death. But how could it be otherwise when such a terrible war was going on?
15. German soldiers in the Balkans play snowballs. Beginning of 1944. In the background is a Soviet T-34-76 tank covered with snow. -Which of them needs it now? And does anyone remember now, while kicking the ball, that each of them killed?
16. Soldiers of the “Greater Germany” division sincerely support their football team. 1943-1944. Just people. This is the leaven from peaceful life
18. German units, which include captured Soviet T-34-76 tanks, are preparing for an attack during Battle of Kursk. I posted this photo because it shows better than many that only madmen are on the thrones, and the badges on the armor meant polar poles. A stencil phrase, but here, stencil Soviet tanks, under other icons drawn on a stencil, are ready to go to war with their brothers with other icons from other stencils. Everything is done for a sweet soul. It is not managed by people in iron boxes, but by others, and hardly by people at all.
19. Soldiers of the SS regiment “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler” rest during a rest near the road towards Pabianice (Poland). The Scharführer on the right is armed with an MP-28 assault rifle, although it makes no difference what the soldier is armed with. The main thing is that he is a soldier and agreed to kill.
20. German paratrooper with backpack flamethrower Flammenwerfer 41 with horizontal tanks. Summer 1944. Cruel people, terrible things they do. Is there a difference with a machine gunner or a marksman? Don't know. Perhaps the matter would have been decided by the tendency to finish off burning and rushing enemies from service weapons? So as not to suffer. After all, you must admit, it is not the duty of the flamethrower to use a tarpaulin to knock down the flames and save them. But finishing the shot is more merciful. Seems.
21. Look, what a thick-footed guy. ...A good man, a hard worker, - my wife couldn’t be happier. A tank driver means a mechanic, the family’s hope. If he survived, and most likely he did, the photo was taken in the Balkans, then after the war the modern giant of Germany rose.
22. Gunner-motorcyclist of the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf". 1941 Totenkopf - Death's Head. The SS soldiers actually fought better than regular units. And officers of any level were not told “Mr.” Just a position: “Scharführer...”, or “Gruppenführer...” The German Social Democratic Party emphasized that it was a party of equals.
23. And they fell equally on the ice. (soldiers of the police battalion)
24. Homemade and tireless pommel of an officer’s dirk, made during a military campaign. They had time under water. They fired and - time. ...Or there are screws on top and - right away there is nothing.
25. My favorite, one of the humane generals of World War II, one of the best generals then who preserved humanity in the war, is Erwin Rommel. Whatever one may say, namely that he is a seasoned human being.
26. And also Rommel. With a knight's cross, somewhere in France. The tank stalled, and the general was right there. Rommel was famous for his unexpected trips through the troops, where even the staff rats lost him, but Erwin Rommel did not get lost and again and again overthrew the enemy defenses, being next to his soldiers.
27. Adored by them. ...Subsequently, Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel was forced to die, as he participated in the assassination attempt on Hitler and the poison he took was the price of the Gestapo abandoning his family.
28. ...At work. It was their job, just like our soldiers - the same. The teeth that were knocked out or, under fixation, also showed. There is war hard labour with increased mortality of those involved.
29. Brave. Before the start of the Western Campaign, SS Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Security Police and SD, completed flight training and participated in air combat in France as a fighter pilot in his Messerschmitt Bf109. And after the fall of France, Heydrich made reconnaissance flights over England and Scotland on a Messerschmitt Bf110. During his service in the Air Force, Heydrich shot down three enemy aircraft (already on the Eastern Front), received the rank of major in the Luftwaffe reserve and earned the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st classes, the Pilot Observer Badge and the Fighter Badge in silver.
30. German cavalrymen in training before World War II. Showing off, 99 percent showing off, however, characterizes “their Kuban people.” This must be something common among horsemen of any tribe, to be proud and to prance. We... They... Is there a difference? Isn't the difference limited to just one direction of the gun's muzzle?
31. English soldiers captured in Dunkirk, in the city square. Later, these soldiers received assistance through the International Red Cross. The USSR abandoned the Geneva Convention, declaring its prisoners of war traitors. After the war, Soviet soldiers who survived German concentration camps, ended up in our camps. Where they didn't get out. "Okay, rush about..."
32. The wedding of the SS Unterscharführer from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler takes place in the open air (possibly an airfield), because SS men did not get married in church. Behind him are friends from his native Luftwaffe
33. A German in a captured Belgian wedge. Very, very happy to ride. Like any of us.
34. "Tiger" fell into an icy drainage ditch near Leningrad, February 19, 1943. The man doesn't seem to come to his senses. Of course, just that there was no one stronger than him, there was no one in the radius aimed shot 88 mm guns. And suddenly... Poor guy.
43. but, in a word, because of a few. Instead of shooting at each other, they would learn to distinguish between their people, high-ranking scoundrels. But the unfortunate poor things don't know how
44. - everyone, everyone can’t do it, equally. Just know, they are dragging each other because of the Ural or Krupp armor:
Wow. We continue to look extremely rare photographs and fascinating stories associated with them. The post is long, there are a lot of photos. Enjoy!
1. Searchlights over Gibraltar during a drill. November 20, 1942
2. The side of the heavy cruiser HMS Sussex with a print left after a Japanese kamikaze hit a Ki-51
3. Captured Japanese equipment on the deck of the aircraft carrier Barnes (CVE-20)
4. A tug pulls the USS Barnes (CVE-20) through the Panama Canal. Captured Japanese equipment is displayed on the flight deck. 
In the foreground is the experimental J5N Tenrai naval interceptor.
5. On the restored border of the USSR
Corporal Gureev I.A. on the border with East Prussia. 1944.
6. German submarine U-156 dies under attack by an American Catalina flying boat.
The boat completed 5 combat cruises, during which it sank 20 ships with a total cargo capacity of 97,504 GRT.
7. British light bomber Fairey Battle
8. German aircraft technicians examine holes in the side of the Bf-109 fighter
The pilot was very lucky: between the place where the aircraft number was written and the cockpit of the Messer there was the main fuel tank. 
9. German heavy tanks crossing a small river
10. A group of “fortresses” blindly bombs a German radar near Bremen
11. Reconnaissance aerial photograph showing a group of transport aircraft at a German airfield
The photo is notable for what kind of aircraft they are: a twin He-111Z (marked with the letter A), a Me-321 glider (letter B) and six heavy transport aircraft Me-323 “Giant”. 
12. Waffen SS infantryman with a Panzerwaffen grenade launcher in his hands. A Soviet T-34 is burning in the background. 1944
13. Explosions of phosphorus Japanese anti-aircraft bombs over a formation of American B-24 bombers in the Iwo Jima area, 1944
The bombs turned out to be completely useless. Structurally, in addition to the phosphorus filling, they were equipped with a high-explosive fragmentation part. The effective radius of destruction with phosphorus was only about 20 meters, with a land mine - even less, and the fragments themselves were ineffective due to the small caliber of the bomb. But you still had to approach the group and accurately drop bombs on the planes, which in itself is very difficult. However, the Japanese, with their characteristic senseless persistence, continued to use these bombs from the moment they were put into service in 1942 until the very end of the war. 
14. A battery of German 88-mm anti-aircraft guns fires at an illuminated target
I don't know how real the photo is. The target is very low, and the gun was somehow very successfully caught at the moment of the shot... 
15. Life of the soldiers of the 2nd Guards Army in the location of their units. Operation to liberate Crimea, 1944
16. Killed German machine gun crew. The helmet didn't save...
17. Soviet soldiers kindly return the weapons they lost to the Wehrmacht
18. "Comet" in the parking lot
19. Warrior
20. Dead soldiers of the Red Army.
21. Post-war photo. Artist on the ruins of Stalingrad. 1945
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23. Corporal Bodger reads a poster warning of the possibility of coming under enemy fire. April 1945
The photograph is notable for the fact that it was taken against the backdrop of the famous Panther, which was shot down on Komödienstraße in Cologne. And this car became famous thanks to the battle with American tanks, which was captured on film by Sergeant Bates. 
24. Soviet sappers are establishing a crossing across the Oder River. 1945
25. American B-24 Liberator from the 15th Air Force bombs a synthetic fuel plant in Bratislava. January 1945 
26. Soviet troops crossing Sivash. Liberation of Crimea, 1944.
27. Tanks of the 6th Guards Motorized Corps at the railway junction. Dresden, 1945
28. American paratroopers with a group of prisoners of war. 1944
The camouflage uniform attracts attention. Due to the similarity with the equipment of SS units, after some time the Americans were forced to abandon it. 
29. Soviet tanks with troops on board in attack
30. Bf-110C from the 6th group of the 76th heavy fighter squadron over the English Channel during the Battle of Britain. 1940
31. Still respect
The inscription on the cross in German: “Here lies an unknown Russian soldier.” Summer of 1941.
32. 7th tank division Wehrmacht fights Russian roads
33. Soldiers of the 82nd US Airborne Division train on cats. The damaged Royal Tiger No. 213 is under distribution
34. Part of the cockpit with windshield and hood of the Il-2 attack aircraft, demonstrating the “boot-by-boot” targeting system
35. T-34, crushed the German light tank Pz.II
36. Janusz Korczak with children before execution in the gas chamber
Janusz Korczak - an outstanding Polish teacher, writer, doctor and public figure. On August 6, 1942, he entered gas chamber in Treblinka, telling fairy tales to unsuspecting children. 
37. Canadian Air Force Supermarine Strander flying boat with survivors on the left wing.
During a rescue operation while landing in the open sea, the boat lost its right float. Trying to balance the plane, several people positioned themselves on the left plane. 
38. Equipment of a German soldier from the Afrika Korps
39. M3A1 tanks from the 241st tank brigade in attack. Don Front, September 1942
In a few hours the brigade will be completely destroyed.
40. Antonina Lebedeva (1916-1943), fighter pilot
41. A pilot of the 332nd Guards Transport and Combat Helicopter Regiment is photographed against the background of the remains of a German Ju-87 bomber. Murmansk region, 80s
Not a military photo, I know, but still...
42. The crew of the IS-2 tank from 62GvTTP fires from a safe distance at identified crews with faust cartridges. Danzig, 1945 
43. Ceremony for accepting the surrender of the Empire of Japan on board the battleship Missouri. September 2, 1945
44. The first and only successful landing of an amphibious seaplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier. 1940
In the photo, the Swordfish floatplane from the English battleship Valiant, which did not have time to return to the ship (Valiant went after the French Strasbourg when the British attacked the French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir so that it would not fall to the Germans), is not having the opportunity to be picked up from the water, makes an emergency landing on the deck of the Ark Royal. Pilot John Edward Breeze. 
45. British experimental analogue of the German system volley fire"Schrage Muzik" mounted on the fuselage of the heavy fighter "Mosquito" 
46. German paratroopers parachute from a DFS-230 glider
47. American A-20 light bomber parked at a field airfield
Judging by the bow section, which has been converted to accommodate 12.8 mm machine guns, this is an assault version of the vehicle.
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