Wehrmacht & Waffen-SS

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 de octubre de 1900 - 23 de mayo de 1945) fue Reichsführer de Schutzstaffel y miembro destacado del Partido Nazi de Alemania. Himmler fue uno de los hombres más poderosos de la Alemania y una de las personas más directamente responsables del Holocausto. Como miembro de un batallón de reserva durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, no hay un servicio activo. Estudió agronomía en la universidad y se unió al Partido Nazi en 1923 y las SS en 1925. En 1929, fue nombrado Reichsführer-SS por Hitler. Durante los siguientes 16 años,consigue que las SS de un simple batallón de 290 hombres crezca en un grupo paramilitar de un millón de personas, siguiendo las órdenes de Hitler, los controles y los campos de concentración de nazis. En nombre de Hitler, Himmler formó los Einsatzgruppen y construyó campos de exterminio. Como facilitador y supervisor de los campos de concentración, Himmler dirigió el asesinato de unos seis millones de judíos, entre 200.000 y 500.000 romaníes, y otras víctimas; El número total de civiles muertos por el régimen se estima en una ocasión en un catorce millones de personas. La mayoría de ellos eran ciudadanos polacos y soviéticos. En marzo de 1933, menos de tres meses después de que los nazis llegaron al poder, por ejemplo, el primer campo de concentración oficial en Dachau. Hitler lo despidió de todos sus cargos en abril de 1945 y ordenó su arresto. Himmler intentó esconderse, pero tuvo que ser y luego haber sido llevado por las fuerzas británicas una vez que se conoció su identidad. Mientras estuvo en custodia británica, se suicidó el 23 de mayo. Himmler mordió una píldora oculta de cianuro de potasio y se desplomó en el suelo. Estaba muerto a los 15 minutos. Poco después, el cuerpo de Himmler fue enterrado en una tumba sin marcas cerca de Lüneburg.
 
Charkow 1942/43.
Francés MG-42 equipo de los voluntarios de la Waffen-Grenadier-brigada der SS “Carlomagno” (más tarde 33ª Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS “Carlomagno”), fotografiado en el frente oriental, región de Galicia, verano de 1944.
SS soldier is armed with a mp40, and the soldier in the back has a normal k98. destroyed vehicle is a m8 greyhound.
soldado de la wehrmacht
 
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Zinaida Martynovna Portnova, also known as Zina Portnova (Зинаида Мартыновна Портнова, born at 20.february 1926) was soviet partisan and the youngest-ever female Hero of the Soviet Union (on 1. July 1958). She also received The Order of Lenin.
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An incident with the invading Nazi troops, who hit her grandmother while they were confiscating the cattle, led her to hate the Germans. In 1942 Portnova joined the Belarusian resistance movement, and became a member of the local underground Komsomol organization in Obol, Vitebsk Voblast, named "Young Avengers". She began by distributing Soviet propaganda leaflets in the German-occupied Belarus, collecting and hiding weapons for Soviet soldiers, and reporting on German troop movements. After learning how to use weapons (her favourite was stolen Maschinpistole 40 (MP 40)) and explosives she participated in sabotage actions at a pump, local power plant, and brick factory. These acts are estimated to have killed upwards of 100 German soldiers.
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In 1943, Portnova became employed as a kitchen aid in Obol. In August, she poisoned the food for the Nazi garrison stationed there. Immediately falling suspect, she said she was innocent and ate some of the food in front of the Nazis to prove it was not poisoned- after she did not fall ill immediately, they released her. Portnova became sick afterwards, vomiting heavily but eventually recovering from the poison after drinking much whey. After she didn't return to work, the Germans realized she had been the culprit and started searching for her. She became a scout of the partisan unit named after Kliment Voroshilov. In a letter sent to her parents that month, she wrote that "together, [they] would beat the Nazis"
 
French woman vents her anger towards a German POW with a kick as he is escorted to a prisoner of war collection center by French soldiers, August 28 1944.
Photo was taken few days after The Liberation of Paris (also known as the Battle for Paris; French: Libération de Paris) a military action from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.
The liberation began when the French Forces of the Interior (Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI)) staged an uprising against the German garrison upon the approach of the US Third Army, led by General George Patton. On the night of 24 August, elements of General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd French Armored Division made its way into Paris and arrived at the Hôtel de Ville shortly before midnight. The next morning, 25 August, the bulk of the 2nd Armored Division and US 4th Infantry Division entered the city. Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison (around 17,000 men) and the military governor of Paris, surrendered to the French at the Hôtel Meurice, the newly established French headquarters, while General Charles de Gaulle arrived to assume control of the city as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.
 
Roza Shanina (Ро́за Гео́ргиевна Ша́нина) with Zinaida Shmelyova (Зинаида Михайловна Шмелёва) on 3rd Belarussian front at 20.january 1945, photo was taken by Belyanin). Zinayda was born in 1925 in the village of Sanino (Kirzhachsky district, Ivanovo region) and went on front at June 19, 1943. She graduated in the Central Women's School of Sniper Training in Podolsk (Moscow Region). On May 30, 1944, as sniper of a separate platoon of snipers-girls of the 159th Infantry Division (45th Rifle Corps, 3rd Belorussian Front) received the first award for the destruction of 15 enemy soldiers and officers - The Order of Glory 3rd degree. At September 16, 1944 She was awarded by the Order of the Red Star for the destruction of 29 enemy soldiers and officers. She was also awarded by the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Alexandra "Sima" Andreevna Dneprovskaya (Александра Андреевнa Днепровская) born in 1916, russian voluntary nurse, sapper and scout of the 325th separate army in the army at July 28, 1941.
Voluntary nurse of reconnaissance platoon 325 OAIB (отдельный аэродромный инженерный батальон- separate aerodrome engineering battalion) Dneprovskaya, was with a group of scouts on 16.8.1942 in the district of Yam-Izhora selflessly and bravely She attacked the dugout (землянкa), where were the German gunners. Invisibly approaching the dugout, she first burst into it and threw a grenade. Three fascists were killed on the spot. The fourth was killed in the trench when he tried to escape.They took the trophies - a machine gun and valuable documents, that was their main task. When the group returned to the unit she rendered medical help to seven wounded soldiers and commanders.
During the battles of Krasnogvardeysk on August 25-27, 1941, Dneprovskaya, under enemy fire, picked up 24 wounded soldiers (2 of them with weapons). During the fighting for the crossing near the river Tosno on November 3-6, 1941, Dneprovskaya carried 30 fighters and commanders from the battlefield, 20 of them with their weapons. By the order of the 55th Army from 5.09.42 she was awarded a "Medal for courage". In this pic she has two "Granata obr RGD" hand grenades. These are considered offensive grenades as they do not have a fragmentation sleeve around the grenade body. Grenades with such a sleeve would be considered defensive grenades. (RGD-33.) Note also the "amoeba" pattern camouflage smock commonly worn by reconnaissance troops.
 
Maria "Masha" Bruskina (Russian: Мария Борисовна Брускина /:Mariya Borisovna Bruskina:/) was a 17-year-old Jewish member of the Minsk Resistance during World War II. She volunteered as a nurse at the hospital in the Minsk Polytechnic Institute, which had been set up to care for wounded members of the Red Army. In addition to caring for the soldiers, she helped them escape by smuggling civilian clothing and false identity papers into the hospital. A patient told the Germans what Bruskina was doing, and she was arrested on October 14, 1941, by members of the Wehrmacht's 707 Infantry Division and the 2nd Schutzmannschaft Battalion, Lithuanian auxiliary troops under the command of Major Antanas Impulevičius. After being arrested, Bruskina wrote the letter to her mother on October 20, 1941: „I am tormented by the thought that I have caused you great worry. Don't worry. Nothing bad has happened to me. I swear to you that you will have no further unpleasantness because of me. If you can, please send me my dress, my green blouse, and white socks. I want to be dressed decently when I leave here.” Before being hanged, she was paraded through the streets with a placard around her neck which read, in both German and Russian: "We are partisans and have shot at German troops". Members of the resistance were made to wear similar signs whether or not they had actually shot at German troops. She and her two comrades were hanged in public on Sunday, October 26, 1941. The scene of their deaths was captured in a series of powerful photographs taken by one of the Wehrmacht collaborators.
 
Lyubov Josifovna Karzeva (Карцева Любовь Иосифовна) - combat medic, scout, lieutenant of 24th infantry regiment. In 1941, she was only seventeen, but she joined red army. On her account is 22 killed Nazis. She gained important information about the strength and location of enemy troops.
Command entrusted her with an important task- take the hostage and deliver him to the army headquarters. This mission she accomplished with honor. She put the hostage on her shoulders and began to run. But the fascists woke up and started shooting on a scout. She was shot, but She overcoming the pain, she could still deliver the hostage to the headquarters. The German soldier turned out to be an important one and that he had valuable informations. For courage and resourcefulness, the lieutenant was awarded a medal for courage. At age 19, she was three times wounded. A pretty and slender girl in a military dress and a garrison cap. But all those who communicated and listened to Karzeva, perfectly understood that she was clever too. In 1943, She was performing the next task, she didnt return. And soon her sisters received a letter, which said that - „Karzeva heroically died in the fight against the German invaders.”. She is buried in the village of Veseloy, on the Kiev land of Ukraine
 
"SS-Obersturmbannführer" Kurt Meyer ,"SS-Hauptsturmführer" Hermann Weiser ve SS-Standartenführer" Herbis Besuden Ukrayna, Kharkov 1943
Un soldado alemán cruza la calle de un pueblo soviético

Un grupo de soldados alemanes capturados durante la defensa de Moscú -1941/1942
 
Dos chicas de la Liga de Jóvenes Alemanas (Bund Deutscher Mädel - BDM), que forma parte de la juventud de Hitler,


Valeriya Gnarovskaya (Валерия О́сиповна Гнаровская, 18 October 1923 – 23 September 1943) was a nurse in the 907th Rifle Regiment of the 229th Infantry Division, 244th Infantry Division, 3rd Ukrainian Front during World War II.
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In July 1942 her unit was sent to the Stalingrad front where she evacuated wounded soldiers from the battlefield. On July 31 her unit, with 112th Infantry Division, tanks, and air support, initiated a counteroffensive and forced the Axis soldiers to retreat behind the Chir river. For over two weeks the unit engaged in nonstop battle, in which she was on medic duty where she contracted typhoid fever. Soldiers carried her, barely alive, to a hospital, and she was considered missing in action. She was awarded Medal For Courage and Order of Lenin. After recovering she was sent back to battle on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. In battle between 15-22 August she carried 30 wounded to safety. In a battle near the river of Seversky Donets. She carried 47 wounded soldiers, officers, and their weapons from the battlefield and personally killed 28 German soldiers in action. Throughout her career she saved an estimated 338 wounded soldiers.
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In her last battle, which took place on 23 September 1943, as part of the 907th Rifle Regiment she rescued the wounded from the front lines and took them to the hospital tent; she also killed 47 German soldiers in action. When two German Tiger I tanks broke past defensive lines and approached the medical station, seeing the tanks approaching, Gnarovskaya grabbed a satchel of grenades, threw herself under the tank and detonated them, killing herself and destroying one of the approaching tanks. After the battle villagers found the remains of her body and buried her. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 3 June 1944.

dead Swedish Red Cross nurse in the SdKfz 250/1 armored personnel carrier under the command of Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans-Gösta Pehrsson from the 11.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division “Nordland” in the Battle for Berlin. The armored personnel carrier was hit on Friedrichstrasse (north of the Reich Chancellery).
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: May 2, 1945

Róża María Goździewska, 8 años de edad chica polaca, con su bandera y el brazalete de enfermera, posa para una fotografía durante el Levantamiento de Varsovia.
Ella era paramédico y ayudó en el hospital de campaña del “Costo” (Koszta) en casa de vecinos en Moniuszko 11. Gracias a sus esfuerzos, se salvaron las vidas de muchas personas. Esta es una foto a partir de agosto de 1944 por Eugeniusz Lokajski Brok. La familia Goździewska sobrevivió a la guerra. Después de la guerra, vivió en Francia, donde murió en 1989 .

 
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