Photos WW2 German Forces

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German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in Montevideo Bay after the Battle of the River Plate, 14 December 1939

 

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The Panzerschiff "Admiral Scheer" and the Leichter Kreuzer "Köln" at the 1935 Marine-Volkswoche (Naval People's Week) in Kiel.

 

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Wait, is that Brad Pitt...

 

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Luftwaffe test pilot Hanna Reitsch. Reitsch was a test pilot on the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber and Dornier Do-17 bomber projects, for which she received the Iron Cross. Late in the war, she was also a test pilot for the Messerschmitt Me-163. Reitsch was among the very last people to leave the Führerbunker on April 29, 1945.

 

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Dutch athlete receives a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a sports prize

 

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Pretty sure this is an re-enactor image not an image from WW2

 

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South of Cologne: Thousands of German POW’s in makeshift bivouvacs. An aerial view of a PoW camp in Germany filled with captured Germans. This camp alone held 160,000 German PoWs. April 1945.

 

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same pic listed on ebay as a reproduction of a wartime picture.

 

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Wehrmacht soldiers now prisoners of the Soviets (in this case, armoured troops), Berlin-Mitte, April 30, 1945

 

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U-431 Typ VIIC

 

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Video about the Battle of Koenigsberg and the Volkssturm.

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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini visiting troops on the Eastern Front in Ukraine, 1941.

 

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German Soldier in Prague

 

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Schlachtschiff Bismarck, as seen from schlachtschiff Tirpitz, May 13th 1941 Gotenhafen, this was the first time that both ships were seen together.
Bismarck and Tirpitz last saw each other on May 18, when they operated together for six hours before the Bismarck left for Rheinübung.

 

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Kriegsmarine Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz is arrested by British Personnel in Flensburg Germany - 23 May 1945

Dönitz was tried as a war criminal at the Nuremberg trials and was found guilty of one of the three counts he was charged with. He was sentenced to 10 years in Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Over 100 senior Allied officers sent letters to Dönitz expressing their disappointment over the verdict of his trial.

One of the charges was waging unrestricted submarine warfare, but this was countered by the fact that the US Navy had waged unrestricted submarine warfare against the Japanese in the Pacific.

Both of Dönitz's sons were killed in action during WW2, after his release from prison Dönitz retired to the small village of Aumühle in Northern West Germany.

Dönitz died of a heart attack at the age of 89 on 24 December 1980, as the last German naval officer with the rank of Großadmiral / Grand Admiral, he was honoured by many former servicemen and foreign naval officers at his funeral.

Malindine Photographer
IWM BU 6711

 

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The massive Reichsadler at Templehof Airport. Originally the main building had an eagle sitting atop a globe, this remained until the 1960s when it was scrapped, only its head remains. It was designed by Albert Speer in 1936.

 

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A monument to the German soldiers in the Zeughaus in Berlin. It existed from 1943 to 1945.

 

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German prisoners of war being marched through the Northern Norwegian town of Harstad by Norwegian soldiers while British and troops of the Polish Independent Podhalan Rifles Brigade look on. May 1940.

Note a Gebirgsjager (Mountain trooper) behind the Luftwaffe Hauptmann (Captain) on the right of the prisoners.

Most of the prisoners were taken to a camp on the island of Skorpa in Troms, it was the main PoW camp in Northern Norway.

Prisoners kept arriving at the camp until early June 1940; Germans that had been captured at the front-line near Narvik, shot-down pilots, and prisoners taken by the remaining pockets of Norwegian resistance on the coast of southern Helgeland and smuggled past German lines to Skorpa.

It held around 500 civilian and military prisoners when it was shut down at the end of the Norwegian Campaign on June 8 1940, when these and other prisoners would have been returned to their units.

(Photo source - © IWM N 231)
Photographer - Bishop H Marshall

 

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The German battleship Gneisenau seen from the deck of the Prinz Eugen.
The photo was possibly taken during the Channel Dash or Operation Cerberus (Unternehmen Zerberus) between 11th to 13th February 1942.