HISTORY IN IMAGES: Pictures Of War, History , WW2

Rare Random Images From WW2: Part 3

Greek soldiers taken prisoner sit around as a German guard watches over them. May-June 1941. Mussolini attacked the Greeks first but was thrown back by the tough Greek fighters. Hitler then steeped in. He wanted to protect the Balkans to keep the British out from getting a toehold. The Greek army however brave was no match for the Wehrmacht.

For propaganda? Or kind Germans? Two German soldiers support a wounded Canadian soldier after the Dieppe raid. August 1942.

French legion of the German army (638th Infantry Regiment) on its way to Moscow from Smolensk. November 1941.

German soldiers prepare a "Goliath" during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. August 11, 1944. (Image by Gutermann)

August 11, 1944. (Image by Gutermann)

A Waffen SS soldier chats with Soviet women at Belgorod. 1943. It would be interesting to know what the conversation was about. We will never know.

Occupied Greece. April 1941. Sepp Dietrich of the   1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"  talks to Greek prisoners.

Soviet citizens about to be hanged by the Germans. Hitler's orders for Barbarossa was that all Soviet Commissars and partitions were to be executed immediately. The so-called "Commissar Order".

German soldiers listen carefully to what this Russian lady is saying. Novorossiysk, 1942. Why do men always listen carefully when a woman speaks? Be it war or during peace.

Be it war or during peace.

September 18, 1944. Germans carry their wounded during the Warsaw Uprising.

 German soldiers crouch behind a Stug 3 assault gun in the outskirts of Stalingrad. 1942

German soldiers in a ruined factory in Stalingrad. November 1942. The photo was published on the cover of "Munchner Illustrierte Presse" of 10 December 1942.

French soldiers in the German army. French Legion of Wehrmacht soldiers during a show in Smolensk before the march on Moscow. November 1941.

American Lieutenant General Mark Clark sits on the window sill of a house in liberated Rome. 1944.

Mussolini with a group of German and Italian military at the "Campo Imperatore" after release. He was rescued by a group of SS soldiers led by Otto Skorzeny (seen on the left of Mussolini) in September 1943.

September 1943.

1940. Captured French pilots chat with German soldiers.

 Not a very nice man. A Waffen SS soldiers kicks a captured Russian pilot. Kursk, 1943.

Near Leningrad. This German hardly seems to have any reverence towards Lenin. He is using the statue as a sign-post.

Tough battle-hardened Waffen SS soldiers at Kharkov. 1943. They were by now fighting a losing war.

Polish employees of the Post Office at Danzig along with a few militia put up strong resistance. The Germans had  to blow down a wall using three guns and use flame-throwers to subdue them. September 1939.

 War destroys. Soviet soldiers walk through a devastated Warsaw. 1945.

A horse stands shaken amidst a destroyed Stalingrad. 1942.

Some Random Rare Images Of The Second World War: Part 2

Two American soldiers inspect a German Tiger tank at the Belgian village of Corenne, February, 1945. The third is admiring the passing Belgian women who too seem interested in the Americans

Romanian soldiers prepare to fire a mortar somewhere in the Caucasus. April 30, 1943.

A German soldier directs German war machines in the vicinity of Moscow. Winter 1941. He looks haggard.

Anton Klein a warden at the Mauthausen-Ebensee concentration camp moments before his hanging on November 5, 1948 at Landsberg, Germany.

British soldiers at a Norwegian village in 1940. They were soon thrown out by the Germans.

 An officer of the Waffen SS 'Florian Geyer' (8th SS Cavalry Division) eats on the eastern front in 1943. These men were used in anti-partisan actions in 1943.

The end was nearing. German soldiers in an Italian town with a Tiger tank in 1944

German paratroopers jumping into Netherlands from a Ju 52 plane. May 1, 1940

Germans with North African (most probably Senegalese] French POW at St. Cloud, A suburb of Paris. 1940.

German groundsmen preparing the fighter bomber Focke-Wulf Fw.190A-5  at Kharkhov, Russia. April 1943.

An American soldier points to the head wounds of a dead soldier shot by the SS at Malmedy in December, 1944

General Leclerc of the Free French 2nd armored division gives orders after reaching Paris. August 25, 1944. The French made a rush for Paris despite American orders to the contrary to revive some of the French pride which was lost in 1940.

A Soviet T-34 tank burns on the outskirts of Moscow. December 1941. But the Germans never reached Moscow.

British POW line up for lunch at Trondheim, Norway. May 1940. Hardly the proud, gritty British.

German soldiers march in Norway. 1940.

1940. German soldiers having soup on the street of a Danish village.

Germans firing a 20 mm Flak 30 anti-aircraft gun in Italy. 1943.

American POW walking through a Belgian village. December 1944.

Red Army prisoner-of-war about to be sent deep into Finland by train during the Soviet-Finnish War in 1940.

Vision of a nightmare come true for the Germans. Red Army soldiers in Berlin. April, 1945.

American pilots aboard the light aircraft carrier 'Monterey' before flying out to attack the Japanese fleet during the Battle of the Mariana Islands. June 1944.

Some Random, Rare Images From WW2: Part 1

German soldiers take cover against a destroyed Soviet KV-1 tank in Lake Ladoga, Leningrad, September 15, 1943.

The Battle at Okinawa was bloody. It convinced the Americans that the Japanese would not surrender with a fight. Seen in the image is an wounded American soldier.

German soldier captured at Anzio, Italy in 1944 escorted by an American soldier.

Romanian soldiers with a ZB 20 machine gun at Stalingrad in 1942. The flanks of the Germans were covered by ill-armed Romanians and Italians which allowed the Red Army to cut off the Sixth Army in November 1942.

Polish POW carry loaves of bread escorted by a German soldier. The defeat in September 1939 was very bitter for the proud Polish.

A German soldier stands guard over a captured Polish 75 mm anti-aircraft gun atop a railroad car in 1939

A German U-Boat crew surrender to Polish sailors at the British port of Portland. The U-Boat captain is Lieutenant zur See Uwe Kock

German general Guderian and Red Army Commander Vladimir Yulianovich Borovitsky at Brest on September 21, 1939 to work out the German and Soviet boundary demarcation of occupied Poland

German soldier beside a Tiger tank and a destroyed Soviet KV-1 tank at Lake Ladoga, Leningrad, September 1943.

German soldiers of a machine gun unit change their position at Stalingrad. October 1942.

The German U-Boat building yard at Bremen after it was occupied by the Allies. May 5, 1945. In the background from left to right in the center - U-3060 and U-3062, in the foreground from left to right - U-3061 and U-3063.

Waffen SS Colonel Max Wunsche, commander of the 12th SS Regiment of the Hitlerjugend Division (bandaged head) with men of the 25th regiment of the SS at Po (village in France) on June 9, 1944. Partly seen on the right side of the image is Rudolf, son of German foreign minister von Ribbentrop.

Franco did not officially involve Spain on the Axis side, but Spanish volunteers did fight in the Wehrmacht. It was called the "Blue Division"(the 250th infantry division). Here a soldier is seen by the grave of a comrade.

Hungarian soldiers on bicycles on the eastern front.

Curious Parisians atop a destroyed German Panther tank. 1944

German soldiers examine a captured French armored car, Panhard 178. May-June 1940

Fritz Sauckel after he was hanged on October 16, 1946.  Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War. Sauckel was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging. Last words: "I respect the American officers and soldiers, but not the American justice system"

Polish soldiers captured by the Germans after the fall of Poland. 1939. The bitterness of defeat shows on the faces of the proud men.

German soldiers walk the streets of the Dutch village of Wagenborgen as dead Dutch soldiers lie. May 1940.

German soldiers adjust their Flak 36 anti-aircraft gun at Novorossiysk, Russia. September, 1942.

Three Canadian soldiers captured  by the Germans during the Dieppe Raid. The Raid was a disaster for the Allies

A German Stuka Dive Bomber flies over Valletta, the capital of British Malta in 1941.

Waffen SS soldiers in Hungary in 1945. It was a desperate losing battle for these tough, motivated fighters.

British POW in North Africa covered by Italian soldiers. December 1941. The prisoners were captured during the advance of Italian troops in Cyrenaica during the battle at Bir el Gubi.

A destroyed Berlin in May 1945. German civilians walk dazed as the occupying Russian soldiers look on.

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