German soldiers in Kharkov. 1942
German troops in the Ukrainian town of Alexandria
Alexandria again
The French did not like it then and they do not like it even today. The fact that many Frenchmen fought in the Wehrmacht. This man is from the French Legion in Russia. 1941.
Incidentally the French soldiers in the German army during WW2 proved to be some of the best fighters in the war. As the Russians closed in on Berlin in April 1945, the last and most tenacious resistance was put up BY FRENCH SOLDIERS IN THE SS
A Frenchman again in the Wehrmacht. Russia 1941
A French Legion soldier. November 1941. USSR
More French Legion soldiers
German soldiers firing at Russians. Summer 1944
June 1943. Eastern Front
Wehrmacht infantrymen. 1943. Russia
The man looks very hassled. The Russian rain and the following slush took the goat of most German soldiers
This pic is from Stalingrad
Stalingrad again
November 1942. Stalingrad. Things were not very bad then. Hence the smile on his face.
Early days of Barbarossa. 1941. Germans move into Russia
Germans talk with a captured Russian soldier
These men have found Russian girlfriends!
These German soldiers prepare for an attack. Stalingrad. 1942
Stalingrad again
Helping an injured comrade
Summer 1941. Eastern Front
German soldiers scour a Russian village
Men of the Grossdeutschland Division . Eastern front.
WHAT WAS THE GROSSDEUTSCHLAND DIVISION?
The Großdeutschland Division was a Heer combat unit of the Wehrmacht often portrayed by the Nazi press and media during World War II. For this reason the Großdeutschland was one of best-equipped unit of the German Armed Forces, receiving equipment before all other units.
More on Wikipedia
December 1941. A German tank trundles through a Russian village near Moscow. The Germans never reached Moscow. Their supply lines were too stretched. The harsh Russian winter struck the ill-prepared German army. And the Russians counter-attacked hard.
Germans with captured Russian partisans
Mail from home!
This German patrol stumbles upon a Soviet partisan camp
A German handles a captured Russian Maxim anti-aircarft gun
This German soldier has his meal
1941. Eastern Front. German soldiers dig a foxhole
Stalingrad
This is near Moscow. 1941. Germans chat with captured Russian soldiers
Grim fighting in Stalingrad. Autumn 1942
Having a drink
Germans fire away at Russians. March 1944
On the way to Moscow. 638th regiment. 7th Division. French Legion
Fighting in Narva. 1941
8.8 cm self propelled artillery unit (SAU) PaK 43/1 Pzkpfw 4
Pzkpfw 3
Ready for a Russian assault
Stalingrad. November 1942
Fighting on street of Zhimotir. Summer 1941
More On German Soldiers In Russia
Best From PicturesHistory.blogspot.com
Popular Articles On This Site
-
One young officer coming upon a unit that had overtaken a column of German refugees fleeing westward later recalled: ‘Women, mothers an...
-
The Einsatzgruppen were special SS mobile formations tasked with carrying out the mass murder of Jews, communist functionaries, and others...
-
Stalingrad. The word will, perhaps, will always remain synonymous with hardest war. Never was the war so brutal, so inhuman and fought so ...
-
The disaster of Stalingrad profoundly shocked the German people and armed forces alike...Never before in Germany's history had so l...
-
American soldiers and Vietcong fighters came face-to-face only during the fighting, some of it hand-to-hand. No photographer would be a...
-
The Hitlerjugend was Hitler's baby. The young boys who were groomed since the early 1930s did the most ferocious fighting in the war t...
-
War is hell. War is man at his worst. Most bestial. Death. Pain. Violence. When the dogs of war are unleashed.... A dead German so...
-
This is how the Nazi propaganda machine saw America VIDEO: NAZI PROPAGANDA A nurse from the American Army in France ...
-
The Battle Of Stalingrad lasted from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943. Two million Germans and Russians died. The entire city was des...
-
Hitler's Nazism is considered wrong on many counts (but there many today, who in private, admire it); the most evident fact is that Naz...
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-- George Santayana
History Quotes
May 1945 - If hell on earth existed, than it existed in Prague after May the 5th. 1945. Old men, women and children were beaten to death and maimed. Rapes, barbaric cruelties, horror-scenarios of hellish proportions - here they had been let lose.
- Ludek Pachmann, Czech Chess-Grand Master and publicist, forty years after the fact.
Copyright Issue
All the images on this site have been uploaded from the internet. Their copyrights lie with the respective owners.
If inadvertently any copy-righted material is published on this site, the owners of the material may contact us at balri24@gmail.com. We will remove the relevant portion immediately
Quotes
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-- DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
-- MARY ANGELOU
Quotes
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
-- Ambrose Bierce
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
-- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Quotes
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past."
--EDWARD GIBBON
"Patriotism ruins history."
-- GOETHE
Snippets from History
This short but important battle played a key role in the decision to use atomic bombs when attacking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The battle showed just how far Japanese troops would go to defend their country.
Snippets From History
Paulus didn't give the order to 6th Army to surrender, but his troops no longer had much fight left in them. Resistance faded out over the next two days, with the last die-hards finally calling it quits. One Red Army colonel shouted at a group of prisoners, waving at the ruins all around them: "That's how Berlin is going to look!
"
Quotes
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
-- THUCYDIDES
Quotes
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-- George Santayana
Points to Ponder: Why Is China Unstable?
The aim of individuals in any society is money and power. Societies that give equal chance to all its members to get them will be the most stable. That is why democracies are more stable than other systems of governance.
China after Deng's reform gave the chance to get rich but power is in the hands of an elite; the Communist Party of China. Membership to the party is at the whims of the local party bosses. This leaves out many people who crave political power dissatisfied and disgruntled. There in lies the roots of instability. The Party suppressed these demands once at Tiananmen in 1989. But force is hardly the way to deal with things like these.
READ MORE: Tiananmen Square Massacre
Stalingrad again
Helping an injured comrade
Summer 1941. Eastern Front
German soldiers scour a Russian village
Men of the Grossdeutschland Division . Eastern front.
December 1941. A German tank trundles through a Russian village near Moscow. The Germans never reached Moscow. Their supply lines were too stretched. The harsh Russian winter struck the ill-prepared German army. And the Russians counter-attacked hard.
Germans with captured Russian partisans
Mail from home!
This German patrol stumbles upon a Soviet partisan camp
A German handles a captured Russian Maxim anti-aircarft gun
This German soldier has his meal
1941. Eastern Front. German soldiers dig a foxhole
Stalingrad
This is near Moscow. 1941. Germans chat with captured Russian soldiers
Grim fighting in Stalingrad. Autumn 1942
Having a drink
Germans fire away at Russians. March 1944
On the way to Moscow. 638th regiment. 7th Division. French Legion
Fighting in Narva. 1941
8.8 cm self propelled artillery unit (SAU) PaK 43/1 Pzkpfw 4
Pzkpfw 3
Ready for a Russian assault
Stalingrad. November 1942
Fighting on street of Zhimotir. Summer 1941
4 Comments:
First I'll commend you on your great collection of pics, and agree with the core setiment that German soldiers of WWI and WWII fought bravely, with as much honor and depravity as found in any other participant of that war. The truth is when it comes to war there is no example that I'm aware of (save acient Israel) where pure evil didn't manifest itself in the actions of at least a few. I don't have a problem with you honoring the amazing sacrifice and those who fought with honor under Hitler, likely unaware of what was going on in the concentration camps. Unfortunately, there was a profound cowardice in the officer ranks regarding the subject of killing Hitler. (Excluding the amazing Rommel and said others). While I "get" what your trying to do here, breathing in important yet forgotten context of the war, you seem to come off doing so without merit as you don't seem to fully and clearly acknowledge the evil also committed, rationalizing it even by pointing out the evil of the other entities throughout warfare history. You need to split time or continue to come off as pro-nazi. Your call.
There is no doubt that there is something in the German psyche that churns out great soldiers, whether be it WW1 or WW2. Our emphasis is on that point. It enabled Germany to fight the combined might of America, Russia, France and Britain for six years (WW2).
About the evil nature of Nazi Germany; much has been written about it. We felt it unnecessary to stress on it.
There is no doubt that there is something in the German psyche that churns out great soldiers, whether be it WW1 or WW2. Our emphasis is on that point. It enabled Germany to fight the combined might of America, Russia, France and Britain for six years (WW2).
About the evil nature of Nazi Germany; much has been written about it. We felt it unnecessary to stress on it.
Germany prepared for war whilst everyone else dithered and were miles ahead of anyone in preparation in 1939. Britain never had a big army by european standards and had relied on its Navy.For France see the Simpsons. Germany also had a political outlook which many people supported and formed battalions from Ireland to Ukraine's Sonnderkommand. Germany had friends and allies all over Europe,Italy,Croatia,Austria,Romania,Hungary,Slovakia,Japan,Baltic countries and in many of the countries they invaded there were populations of ethnic Germans.The USA didn't appear til 44. Germany never won a battle after 43 and not on it's own.
Post a Comment