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A motorcyclist-medic of the SS-Infanterie-Division Totenkopf (mot.) in a BMW R12 arrived to evacuate a wounded man. Eastern front 1941

A motorcyclist-medic of the SS-Infanterie-Division Totenkopf (mot.) in a BMW R12 arrived to evacuate a wounded man. Eastern front 1941

u/defender838383 — 9 hours ago

Album: Luftwaffe naval detachment Einsatzstab Fähre Ost parading on Lake Ladoga off the Finnish-controlled shore. The unit’s mission was to disrupt Soviet supply traffic to besieged Leningrad and operate against Soviet forces around the lake. August 13, 1942. Original color.

u/unvobr — 22 hours ago
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German Soldier taking cover underneath a Knocked out Soviet Valentine during the battles of Rvhez 1942.

u/waffen123 — 1 day ago

Large-caliber rocket launchers (28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41 or 30 cm Nebelwerfer 42) from a motorized rocket artillery unit of the Wehrmacht firing a salvo towards Soviet positions, central sector of the Eastern Front, spring-summer 1943.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 1 day ago
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Speaking of time-tables' — German leaflet from the Second World War (1944) mocking the Allies' slow progress in the Italian campaign.

u/waffen123 — 2 days ago

Three Polish railway workers publicly hanged by German authorities in Kutno's Old Market Square on June 9, 1941, as punishment for smuggling food into occupied Warsaw.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 2 days ago
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Two SS Totenkopf panzer grenadiers walking by a destroyed Soviet IS-2 tank in Siedlce, Poland. July 29, 1944.

u/Strict_Key3318 — 2 days ago

An experimental German 75mm PaK 50 anti-tank gun (7.5cm Panzerabwehrkanone 50), captured by American forces. The gun's development utilized a shortened PaK 40 gun barrel and a PaK 38 carriage. 1945

u/defender838383 — 2 days ago

SS-Brigadeführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS, Jürgen Stroop, with Ukrainian Trawniki Auxiliary troops at the Umschlagplatz during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 2 days ago

Photos of the Gardelegen Massacre contributed by the first American (And British) soldiers who arrived at the scene on April 15, 1945.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 3 days ago

can someone identify that plate on the bottom left? does it look more like Italy, Greece or Tunisia?

u/the_giank — 2 days ago

Series of photos showing a mass execution of Jewish civilians by German Police in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland on November 11, 1939.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 3 days ago