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Pro-Nazi? Us?
Pro-Nazi? Partial to fascism? Sympathetic to Nazism. These are some of the comments that come up. The truth is far from that. This impression was perhaps created because we carry more pictures from German sources. There is a reason for that. The victors (Russia, America, Britain...) tend to give out only those images that show them in good light. And they are dull! Who said propaganda is entertaining? The pictures taken by Germans are very interesting because the source; Nazi Germany itself disappeared. There was no one to control which images were to be released. And they are fascinating. They show war as it was. Not the way someone wanted us to see it.
If anyone feels that we have dealt lightly with the evil Nazi regime, it is not intentional. So much has been said about the holocaust that we feel we have little to contribute.
We repeat. WE ARE NOT PRO-NAZI.
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German soldiers in Kharkov. 1942 VIDEO: LILI MARLENE SONG POPULAR AMONGT GERMAN (ALSO ALLIED ) SOLDIERS
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
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.
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.
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"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
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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
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"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! "
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History is Philosophy teaching by examples. -- THUCYDIDES
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"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.
The "Bad, Bad" Vietcong
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The Vietnam War was a nightmare for the people of Vietnam. Both sides
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The Spanish Civil War
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A Nationalist fighter throws a grenade at Government soldiers at Burgos.
September 12, 1936
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Women During World War Two
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Vietnam War As Seen By Japanese Lensman ISHIKAWA BUNYO
One young officer coming upon a unit that had overtaken a column of German refugees fleeing westward later recalled: ‘Women, mothers and their children lie to the right and left along the route, and in front of each of them stands a raucous armada of men with their trousers down. The women who are bleeding or losing consciousness get shoved to one side, and our men shoot the ones who try to save their children.’ A group of ‘grinning’ officers was standing near by, making sure ‘that every soldier without exception would take part’. READ MORE >>>>
Stalingrad. The word will, perhaps, will always remain synonymous with hardest war fighting. Never was the war so brutal, so inhuman and fought so desperately. However many images we see of the Battle of Stalingrad, one hungers for more... Below are some large pictures from the Battle of Stalingrad which have perhaps, never been seen before.... SEE THEM >>>>
The Battle Of Stalingrad lasted from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943. Two million Germans and Russians died. The entire city was destroyed. So was the myth of invincibility of the German War Machine.
The victims were now reporting to the doctors. Neither age nor social status provided any protection. The Russians are reported to have raped women as old as eighty. Schöner heard a story from Ober St Veit that one woman had complained to the Russian commandant, who had laughed in her face. In general officers excused their men on the grounds of ‘long abstinence’. Even the ‘first victims’ were not immune: the Austrians were not going to enjoy the taste of liberation.
EINSATZGRUPPEN: The Nazi Killing Machine In Pictures
Most Einsatzgruppen were disbanded as late as 1944. Einsatzgruppe D was the exception, being disbanded in July 1943, but in those few short years their combined deadly activity had claimed over seven hundred thousand lives.
Zhukov stood up. 'We invite the German delegation to sign the act of capitulation,' he said in Russian. The interpreter translated, but Keitel, by an impatient gesture, signalled that he had understood and that they should bring him the papers.
Zhukov, however, pointed to the end of his table. 'Tell them to come here to sign,' he said to the interpreter. Keitel stood up and walked over. He ostentatiously removed his glove before picking upthe pen. He clearly had no idea that the senior Soviet officer looking over his shoulder ashe signed was Beria's representative, General Serov. Keitel put the glove back on, then returned to his place. Stumpff signed next, then Friedeburg.
'The German delegation may leave the hall,' Zhukov announced. The three men stood up.Keitel, 'his jowls hanging heavily like a bulldog's', raised his marshal's baton in salute,then turned on his heel.
As the door closed behind them, it was almost as if everybody inthe room exhaled in unison. The tension relaxed instantaneously. Zhukov was smiling, sowas Tedder. Everybody began to talk animatedly and shake hands. Soviet officers embraced each other in bear hugs. The party which followed went on until almost dawn,with songs and dances. Marshal Zhukov himself danced the Russkayato loud cheers fromhis generals. From inside, they could clearly hear gunfire all over the city as officers and soldiers blasted their remaining ammunition into the night sky in celebration. The war was over.
The German divisions advanced across immense fields of sun-flowers or corn. One of the main dangers they faced was from Red Army soldiers, cut off by the rapid advance, attacking from behind or from the flank. On many occasions, when German soldiers fired back, the Red Army soldiers fell, feigning death, and lay there without moving. When the Germans approached to investigate, the Soviet soldiers waited until almost the last moment, then 'shot them at close range'
"I must admit that this gassing had a calming effect on me, I was always horrified of executions by firing squads. Now, I was relieved to think that we would be spared all these bloodbaths." Rudolf Hoess..
Rudolf Hoess was responsible for the death of over one million people in his concentration camp. He was caught in March 1946, gave evidence at Nuremberg and was then handed over to Poland for trial. While awaiting trial he wrote his memoirs. He was executed at Auschwitz, the very site he commanded, and allowed others to die in.
History Trivia: Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich..
Hitler referred to Reinhard Heydrich as "the Man with the Iron Heart" at his funeral. Until his death Heydrich oversaw the 'Final Solution' ... He was assassinated by two Czech resistance members in Prague in 1942. Hitler was so angered by the assassination that the village of Lidice was completely destroyed, and the inhabitants murdered.
For the first time, the Russian people heard the voice of their leader. Stalin addressed the entire country on July 3, 1941. He welcomed aid from the West and proclaimed a scorched-earth policy, denying the Germans everything and calling for the Russians already under occupation to fight hard against the invaders. He also appealed not only to communist ideals but to Russian nationalism.
In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our military was very clearly threatened by a uniformed and rather easily recognizable enemy. However in Vietnam, it was quite opposite. It appeared to the American soldiers that the whole country was hostile to American forces. It was impossible to tell the difference between friendly Vietnamese and enemy Vietnamese, (Viet Cong). The Viet Cong was rarely uniformed; therefore American troops were often forced to kill women and children.
The Polish-Jewish historian and the Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum has described the cruelty of the ghetto police as "at times greater than that of the Germans, the Ukrainians and the Latvians."
Snippets From History: Vietnam War
From a journalist’s perspective, especially a photo-journalist, the war in Vietnam was unique. With virtually unrestricted access to the battle fields many photographers came to depict war in a way never seen before or since. Despite the technology, this was a guerrilla war with much of the fighting at close quarters, allowing intense moments to be recorded on film.
This meant risk; over 135 photographers from all sides are recorded as dead or missing. But it was also a war where images changed public opinion.
Snippets From History
"In 1945, in Soviet eyes it was time to pay," wrote British military historian Max Arthur. "For most Russian soldiers, any instinct for pity or mercy had died somewhere on a hundred battlefields between Moscow and Warsaw."
Snippets of War
BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD The Germans were now not only starving, but running out of ammunition. Nevertheless, they continued to resist stubbornly, in part because they believed the Soviets would execute any who surrendered. In particular, the so-called "HiWis", Soviet citizens fighting for the Germans, had no illusions about their fate if captured.
The Hitler youth fought with great courage during the battle. One group of Hitler youth even managed to hold off a Soviet tank division for three days. Many soldiers said that no one scared them more then the Hitler youth.....
Did The Americans and British act as brutally as the Germans and Japanese during WW2
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
3 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.
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