Wehrmacht & Waffen-SS

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Los voluntarios finlandeses de Waffen-SS están entrenando para disparar con la ametralladora MG-34.

Una columna de prisioneros de guerra alemanes que marchaban tras ser tomados prisioneros por partidarios yugoslavos.
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Estonian SS

Stalingrado, 1942

 

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Soldado alemán en Kiev está al lado de un partisano soviético

Un anciano musulmán bosnio es voluntario de la recién formada división Handschar.

Soldados de la Legión georgiana de las Waffen-SS se entrenan para usar el Degtyarev DP-27 del LMG soviético 1943,

 

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Lo que era hermoso, la legión de Valonia
Por la nueva Europa, sacrificé mi vida
En la aventura de toda Bélgica
Destruya la podredumbre de Judeo-Bolchevique

 

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Soldiers from the «Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler» (LSSAH) have an parade in Nuremberg 1938. This Division was Hitler’s bodyguards. They were the most Elite Waffen-SS Division. There loyalty was to Hitler. All of them trusted their life to him, and the Division.
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The Division fought in all of the big Operations during ww2. With mostly minimal losses. The LSSAH was one of the last surrendering Waffen-SS Divisions in April/May ‘45. LSSAH’s soldiers would rather die, then surrendering to the «Jewish » Soviets soldiers

German soldiers take cover after firing a house in a russian village, 1941.

 

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Fedor Ivanovich Shikunov. In 52 air battles he shot down 25 enemy aircraft. He died in Germany on March 15, 1945.

 

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la ejecución sumaria fue lo mejor que los miembros de la Resistencia podrían esperar si los capturaban. Muchos sufrieron torturas a manos de la Gestapo. Esta foto alemana muestra a los combatientes de la Resistencia Lantilly, Francia; Mayo 1944 ... "

 

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A Wehrmacht veteran teaches Hitler Youth boys how to use a Panzerfaust. The badges on his sleeve represent enemy tanks destroyed.

 

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Stalingrad. August, 1942

 

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Dutch volunteer from the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, reads the Dutch edition of Storm SS-magazine. November 1942.

Commander of the 369th Croatian Grenadier Regiment, Kurt Fischer, displays the flag of the newly created division.

 

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Yugoslav Partisans, members of the 8th corp parade through the newly liberated Mostar, February 1945. Barely 2 years ago, in these same streets, a different army (SS Prinz Eugen, with a different goal, paraded as well.

 

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SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Joachim ‘Hajo’ Freiherr von Hadeln (6 March 1910 - 12 January 1943), commander of I.Batallion/SS-Infanterie-Regiment Westland (SS-Division Wiking). Von Hadeln was killed by a Soviet sniper while doing an inspection on the front at Orlowsky (near Rostov). SS-Sturmbannführer Harry Polewacz was also killed by the same sniper during this visit to the frontline.

 

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A Norwegian Waffen-SS Tank Commander from the «5. SS- Panzer-Division Wiking» in Ukraine 1943. The SS- Division Wiking was a Panzer SS- Division fighting in Army Group South in the Caucasus and Ukraine. The Norwegian in the picture has the Iron Cross, the Norwegian Flag on his right arm, and Tank Destroyer Icon on his left arm, and the Divisions Logo on him. •••• It had volunteers from Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. It was commanded by World War 1 Veteran, SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner.

-A British Waffen-SS volunteer SS-Sturmmann Alfred Minchen, from the «Britisches Freikorps» (BFC) standing around other British volunteers 1944. This man was first a British soldier in the Royal Navy, before getting captured after an failed sabotation attempt in Norway in ‘42. He became a POW, and were sent to Germany. He joined the SS-, and was one of the British Soldiers that started the British Freikorps. •••• Minchen fought against the Soviets, before getting wounded and were sent to a Hospital in Berlin, March ‘45. He fought in the Battle of Berlin, with the Freikorps and surviving the Battle. He was captured by the Soviets and sent to British Forces. He was trialed and sentenced to 7 years in Prison. Minchen died as a British National Traitor in 1998.

A German Waffen-SS Officer from the «2. SS-Division Das Reich», Normandy 1944, before Operation Overlord. The SS-Das Reich Division was one of the most Elite and Powerful Divisions in both World Wars. The Division was a Panzer-Division and was incredibly effective, and feared by the Americans and Soviets. •••• The Division only had battle-hardened soldiers, and Iron Cross soldiers. (First Class) The Division fought in the Battle of France 1940, and Moscow 1942, Kursk 1943 and Normandy 1944. The Division suffered nearly no losses in France 1940, and were apart of Operation Barbarossa. They fought in many big battles before getting sent to the Defence of France, Operation Overlord. The Division fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and the last desperate battles in Hungary and Austria. •••• On the 10th of June 1944 in Oradour-sur-Glane the Division commited a French Civilian massacre, were 642 people were killed. 240 were woman, and 205 were only kids. The Division fought in Germany suffering heavy losses, and surrendered in May 1945. The SS-Das Reich Division’s symbol is the Wolfsangel Symbol

 

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Otto Carius (27 May 1922 – 24 January 2015) was a German tank commander in the army of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Soon after Otto Carius graduated from school, World War II broke out. Carius enlisted in the army and first served in the infantry, before volunteering for the Panzer branch.In 1943, Carius transferred to the 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion. He became commander of a Jagdtiger company of the 512th Heavy Antitank Battalion at the beginning of 1945. On 8 March 1945, 2nd Company was directed to the front line near Siegburg, where it took part in the defense of the River Rhine. He surrendered to the United States Army on 7 May 1945 and was released on 21 May 1945.After the war, Carius set up a pharmacy which was aptly called "Tiger Apotheke". Carius died on 24 January 2015 at age 92. He is considered a "panzer ace" credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front. His Award -Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (15 September 1942) & 1st Class (23 November 1943) -Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak -LeavesKnight's Cross on 4 May 1944 as Leutnant of the Reserves and platoon leader in the 2./schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 -535th Oak Leaves on 27 July 1944 as Leutnantof the Reserves and leader of the 2./schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 -Panzer Badge in Silver 2nd Grade (15 July 1944) & 3rd Grade (1 September 1944)

 

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Russian survivor liberated by the U.S. Army in Buchenwald camp in Germany identified a former guard who were brutally beating prisoners.April 14,1945

 

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Waffen SS Soldiers in Russia

 

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Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer attend the testing of a rocket in Peenemünde, Germany. 18th August 1943

 

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Estonian SS division soldiers in Ukraine, 1943-1944.

Estonian volunteers waving to camera. They are going to be part of 3rd Estonian SS brigade (Estonian Legion).

Estonian 200. Infantry regiment (Jalkaväkirykmentti 200 in finnish) arriving back to Estonia from Finland

1945

 

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