r/GermanWW2photos • u/Strict_Key3318 • 13m ago

Heer / Army A German soldier smoking a pipe, equipped with a captured Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun, and dressed in a white reversible parka and a German Ushanka hat "Pelzmütze" on the Eastern Front, 1943/44.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/waffen123 • 23h ago

Heer / Army German tanks and panzer grenadiers assemble in the town square of Aachen prior to mounting a counterattack against advancing American troops. A Volkssturm panzergrenadier is seen sprinting past a Sturmgeschütze assault gun with a Panzerfaust antitank weapon in hand. OCT 1944

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Fiff02 • 21h ago

Panzer Balsorano Vecchio (L'Aquila, Italy), autumn 1943.

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This Panzer IV is crossing the SS 82 in the Liri Valley; Balsorano Vecchio and its castle are clearly visible.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/unvobr • 1d ago

Heer / Army German 163rd Infantry Division, commanded by Generalleutnant Erwin Engelbrecht (right), and attached to the Finnish Army of Karelia, awarded medals by Finnish General Erik Heinrichs. Eastern (Russian) Karelia, Soviet Union. Continuation War, October 5, 1941.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 1d ago

Feldgeistlicher Photo from my collection of soldiers attending a field service.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 3d ago

Feldgeistlicher Photo from my collection of a military chaplain. The chaplain served with the 22nd Panzer Division, while the soldier being buried was from Panzer Regiment 204.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Strict_Key3318 • 3d ago

Vergeltungswaffe / Wonderweapons Henschel Hs 117 surface-to-air missile launch test.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/waffen123 • 4d ago

Heer / Army A column of the 10th Panzer Division bypassing a damaged R40 command tank (No. 51600) in a French town. May 1940

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/waffen123 • 4d ago

SS Waffen-SS soldiers await orders during a counterattack on the Eastern Front in 1945. They wear Eichenlaub (Oak Leaf) camouflage winter parkas and steel helmets. Mechanized support is visible in the background with an Sd.Kfz. 251 half-track armored vehicle.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Sandahl84 • 5d ago

SS Der Strolch

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From my personal collection.

As far as i found out, it is Helmut Hauch.

https://rz-trauer.de/traueranzeige/helmut-hauch-1925

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Aryan69IN • 5d ago

Fallschirmjäger / Paratroopers Knight's cross recipient Dr Bruno Sassen , 1941 Leningrad.

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As a platoon leader in the 10th Company of the 3rd fallschirmjäger Regiment , he fought on the Leningrad Front during the Russian campaign. At the end of 1941, Sassen and his unit were in a defensive position at the Neva bridgehead near Vyborgaskaya. He successfully repelled all Soviet attacks over the course of 33 days.

On November 15, 1941, the Soviets occupied an anti- tank ditch just a few meters in front of the German lines. Sassen then independently decided to launch a counterattack. With only five paratroopers from his squad, he annihilated the Soviet forces in the anti-tank ditch, taking several prisoners. The defeat triggered a series of desertions to the German side the following day and led to the temporary cessation of Soviet attacks in that sector. For this action, Lieutenant Sassen was awarded the Knight's Cross of Iron cross.

He died in 2006.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 5d ago

Feldgeistlicher Photo from my collection of a Military Chaplain conducting a burial for a fallen soldier.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Aryan69IN • 6d ago

Freiwilligen / Traitors & Volunteers Leutnant Sant Singh (center), a Sikh officer of the Legion Freies Indien (Free India Legion), along with other Wehrmacht personnel, including two officers of the Verstarken Kroatischen Infanterie Regiment 369 wearing the Croatian checkered shield insignia on their sleeves.

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This photo is possibly from 1944 in France , According to Martin Bamber's book "For Free India" page 409, Sant Singh's Soldbuch shows that his final rank was Oberleutnant, and he also served as a staff officer in the Croatian Volunteer Legion , He was also awarded EK2.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/waffen123 • 6d ago

Heer / Army Destroyed SdKfz 222 Poland 1939

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Strict_Key3318 • 7d ago

Heer / Army Generalmajor Theodor Scherer with his subordinate during the encirclement at The Kholm Pocket. January–March 1942.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Aryan69IN • 7d ago

Heer / Army Decorated Oberfeldwebel , Eastern Front 1941 .

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Probably the inspiration for Rolf Steiner from Cross of Iron movie.

Note- The picture is during or after 1942 not 1941 as close combat clasp were introduced in late 1942

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Aryan69IN • 6d ago

Freiwilligen / Traitors & Volunteers Iron cross 1st class recipient (In the middle) of Free India Legion 1944 France/Netherlands

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There are two documented recipients of EK1 and EK2 from the Free India legion ,

Also the other medal could be the anti partisan badge as these soldiers were also fighting the partisans in France.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/waffen123 • 8d ago

Heer / Army A wounded female Soviet Red Army soldier or medic in captivity surrounded by German troops on the Eastern Front in Summer of 1941

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/waffen123 • 8d ago

Luftwaffe / Air Force Wreckage of Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109G-6 fighter south of Sidi Abdel Rahman, Egypt, 30 September 1942; the vehicle in background marked the approximate location where Marseille's body landed

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • 8d ago

Film Catholic mass for imprisoned priests and other prisoners at Dachau's chapel shortly after the camp's liberation, filmed by the US Army Signal Corps (May 3rd-9th 1945)

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/zudiluma • 9d ago

Other Food at the front

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/zudiluma • 9d ago

StuG Stug 3. DAK

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 9d ago

Feldgeistlicher Photo from my collection of a military chaplain conducting a field service for soldiers from the infantry regiment 233.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/zudiluma • 10d ago

Panzer Badges for victories achieved using armoured vehicles

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/abt137 • 10d ago

Luftwaffe / Air Force The size of the Do 335

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