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Images of the Second World War - Possibly NSFW
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Waffen-SS Obersturmbannführer Hans Dorr Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.Holding a Kar98k with a Zf41 scope.
Dorr served with the 5. SS-Panzer-Division Wiking and was a commander of the SS-Regiment Germania. He was wounded 16 times during WWII and died at a Field hospital near Judenburg only a month before the war's end0 -
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The Atlantic is running a series showing photographs of WW2 which they plan on updating weekly. I'd highly recommend it :
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ww2.html
The first 2 installments are in place 'Prelude to War' and '1939 Poland & The Winter War':
Four Nazi troops sing in front of the Berlin branch of the Woolworth Co. store during the movement to boycott Jewish presence in Germany, in March, 1933. The Hitlerites believe the founder of the Woolworth Co. was Jewish.
Japaneese executing Chineese prisoners
'Three hundred fascist insurgents were killed in this explosion in Madrid, Spain, under the five-story Casa Blanca building, on March 19, 1938. Government loyalists tunneled 600 yards over a six-month period to lay the land mine that caused the explosion. (AP Photo) '
German troops marching into the city of Bromberg (the German name for the Polish city of Bydgoszcz) found several hundred German nationals dead from Polish sniper fire. The snipers were equipped with arms by the retreating Polish forces. Bodies are shown on a forest road, September 8, 1939
A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika mourns over her sister's body. She was killed by German machine-gun fire while picking potatoes in a field outside Warsaw, Poland, in September of 1939.
A Swedish volunteer, "somewhere in Northern Finland," protects himself from the sub-zero arctic cold with a mask over his face on February 20, 1940, while on duty against the Russian Invaders.
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Taken from 'The Atlantic - a retrospective in 20 weekly parts'
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ww2.html
London's Westminster Bridge and the Houses of parliament, shrouded in darkness, after the great black-out began, on August 11, 1939. This blackout was the first trial conducted by the Home Office, in preparation for possible German air raids.
Spoils of war -- captured Soviet tanks and cars, along a road in a snow covered forest on January 17, 1940. Finnish troops had just overpowered an entire Soviet division.
German Chancellor and dictator Adolf Hitler consults a geographical survey map with his general staff including Heinrich Himmler (left) and Martin Bormann (right) at an undisclosed location in 1939.
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German and Norwegian officers in courses at the Winter School of Infantry in March 1939. Number 2 from the left is Otto Ruge. Then the two German officers, Müller and Hofbauer. At least Hofbauer came back to Norway after 9 April
Germans bury their dead in the Solheim Cemetery on 13 April 1940. Fallen Norwegian soldiers from Hellen Fortress was buried in the Solheim Cemetery later the same day
German light cruiser Köln on April 9th 1940
1st May 1940 German reinforcements arrive in Bergen
“SCHNELLBOOT” German torpedo boat.
HMS Venturer (P68) Read about her action against U-864 here
Panic as the air raid sirens sound
Men of the B-35 Company – Bjørn West; “Fana-troppen” resistance group arrive in Bergen armed and in uniform to oversee the peaceful transition back to Norwegian rule.
After the war, the round up of the Nasjonal Samling (National Socialist Party) members begins.
More NS members being escorted for questioning.
Back to the Fatherland. For practical reasons, a division of German naval men - enlisted and officers - have been ordered to stay back after the liberation. These men were then returned to Germany.0 -
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some great pics up lately ! thanks all for posting
I just spent the last 10 days in Germany (Dachau and surrounds).
Here's a pic of a memorial to WW2 Veterans from the village of Kleinberghofen, near Dachau.
I was having an evening meal with a mate there who's associated with a veterans organisation. The pic below is up on the wall of the local Beer Kellar, where the association still have their meetings. A cross beneath any particular soldiers photo, signifies the man was killed during the war.
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During World War II, after crash-landing or being forced down, approximately 40 B-17s were repaired and put back into the air by the Luftwaffe. These captured aircraft were codenamed "Dornier Do 200", given German markings and used for clandestine spy and reconnaissance missions by the Luftwaffe - most often used by the Luftwaffe unit known as KG 200, hence a likely possibility as a source for the "Do 200" codename.
Captured American B-17 used by the Luftwaffe
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A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika mourns over her sister's body. She was killed by German machine-gun fire while picking potatoes in a field outside Warsaw, Poland, in September of 1939.
You know, I've seen so many different captions for this photo over the years, it's almost a joke at this stage.
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The latest photo selection from The Atlantic magazine is up, Part 8, The American Home Front in Color, as shot by OWI (Office of War Information) photographers, in glorious Kodachrome:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/world-war-ii-the-american-home-front-in-color/100122/
Sample:
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These pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67th anniversary of the start of the gruelling battle.
An American Sherman M4 tank moves past another gun carriage that slid off icy road in the Ardennes Forest during push to halt advancing German troops.
German Fuhrer and Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler and members of his General Staff review plans for 'Operation Bodenplatte,' an airstrike in support of the Ardennes offensive.
American troops man the trenches along a snowy hedgerow in the northern Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge
Soldiers with the Seventh Armored Division trudge through snow in a bombed-out Belgian village in 1945
A fifteen year old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany on April 3, 1945.
German prisoners of war hold up their arms as Allied soldiers round up captives January 20, 1945 near the French-German border
American GI's helped local residents to load themselves and their belongings onto US trucks so they could escape the fight
This German plane was shot down by Allied guns and was found lying in snowy field in the Ardennes Forest
American soldiers of the 1st Army huddle around campfire in the snowy countryside of northern Ardennes Forest during lull in the Battle of the Bulge
German POWs carrying body of American soldier killed in Battle of Bulge through snowy Ardennes field
View of German soldiers aboard a Jagdpanzer IV/70 tank destroyer from the 12th SS Panzer Division during the Battle of the Bulge
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A man I drink with "Charlie Flattery" gave me permission to publish these. They are a selection of photos of his Mother who was in the ATS and another relative of his who was a Pilot with Bomber Command.
Sean Austin 1943 1944
Seans crew 1945
Seans crew 1945
Castle Donnington 1946
Card home July 1943
Location and Year Unknown
Bedford 1944
Bedford 1944
Camberly 1945
Aug 1943
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The S.S. Franconia took Churchill and Anthony Eden to the Yalta conference. Below are the speeches given by both men to the Crew. I was recently given these documents by an uncle. My Grandfather was Bosun on the Franconia at the time, and these documents have been in my family since 1945.
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These pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67th anniversary of the start of the gruelling battle.
German POWs carrying body of American soldier killed in Battle of Bulge through snowy Ardennes field
This photograph show German POWs carrying an American soldier shot down by Jochen Peiper and his SS troops at Malmédy to the Red Cross identification unit set up nearby after the atrocity was discovered.
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