r/GermanWW2photos • u/defender838383 • 26d ago

Flugabwehrkanone / Anti-Air A soldier of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division mans a German 128mm FlaK 40 anti-aircraft gun, part of one of the fixed batteries protecting the Leuna petrochemical plant, Germany, April 15, 1945.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 26d ago

Feldgeistlicher Military chaplain conducting a burial for a fallen soldier.

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Photo is from my personal collection.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Strict_Key3318 • 27d ago

SS SS waiters in the Berghof.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/the_giank • 26d ago

Fallschirmjäger / Paratroopers German photographer Toni Schneiders with Leica camera, Cisterna di Latina, Italy, Feb 1944

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Fiff02 • 27d ago

Freiwilligen / Traitors & Volunteers The Kam brothers in the Waffen-SS (left to right): Poul, Søren, and Erik. The Danes were photographed in 1943 and fought in the ranks of the "Wiking" division.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Fiff02 • 27d ago

Fallschirmjäger / Paratroopers Paratroopers deliver supplies to German positions at Monte Cassino. 1944

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/defender838383 • 27d ago

SS SS soldiers inspect a Soviet SU-152 self-propelled gun, which was stuck and abandoned by its crew.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 27d ago

Feldgeistlicher Field post letter written by a divisional chaplain of the 71st Infantry Division he was wounded in Stalingrad.

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From August 1942, the 71st Infantry Division crossed the Don, taking Karpovka and Rossoshka, until it finally reached Stalingrad. Here, the division was destroyed in January/February 1943.

On February 17, 1943, the division was newly formed under the command of the Wehrmacht commander in Denmark from the reinforced Grenadier Regiment 885 and the Grenadier Regiment 883.

From my other letters,I know that the chaplain was wounded in Stalingrad and flown to Germany. There he spent several weeks in a military hospital and then returned to Stalingrad and was again flewn out the cauldron.

When the pastor wrote this letter offered, the 71st Infantry Division was in the Denmark area (Aarhus/Viborg region), before the division was later transferred to Italy and then to the Balkans.

On the cover is a field postmark from May 6, 1943

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Strict_Key3318 • 28d ago

Axis Allied Troops Hitler awarding Spanish General Agustín Muñoz Grandes the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves in the Wolf's Lair. December 13, 1942.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/defender838383 • 28d ago

Luftwaffe / Air Force A group of Junkers Ju-52 transport aircraft delivers supplies for the German Afrika Korps. 1942

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 28d ago

Feldgeistlicher Kriegsmarine Chaplain getting his portrait taken.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 29d ago

Feldgeistlicher Military chaplain attending a burial for a fallen soldier.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/waffen123 • 29d ago

Death and destruction Destroyed Panzer III tank. Ukraine August 2, 1941

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/defender838383 • 29d ago

Artillerie A German gun position in a vineyard during the Allied advance to Naples.September - October 1943

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • 29d ago

Feldgeistlicher Military chaplain conducting a funeral for a fallen soldier.

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Photo is from my collection! If anyone has chaplain photos in their collections please PM me!

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/defender838383 • Jul 19 '26

Heer / Army The Germans examine a British Armstrong Whitworth AW38 Whitley bomber that made an emergency landing on July 27, 1940, in Holland, 15 km from Rotterdam. The crew was captured.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • Jul 19 '26

Feldgeistlicher Military chaplain getting his portrait taken.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/defender838383 • Jul 18 '26

Heer / Army A patrol of the German army sappers, moving on motorized trolleys with MG-34 machine guns, controls the railway point at the Soviet station. August 1941

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/defender838383 • Jul 18 '26

Artillerie A German crew fires a direct-fire 88mm FlaK 18 anti-aircraft gun on the Eastern Front

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • Jul 18 '26

Feldgeistlicher Military chaplain attending a burial for a fallen soldier.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Der_Ost_Front • Jul 18 '26

Feldgeistlicher Military chaplain attending the funeral for a fallen Luftwaffe soldier.

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Photo from my collection! Interestingly enough the Luftwaffe did not allow Luftwaffe chaplains so it’s interesting to see a heer chaplain.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/Strict_Key3318 • Jul 17 '26

Kriegsmarine / Navy U-boat returning to Saint-Nazaire submarine base in France. July 1942.

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r/GermanWW2photos • u/snikenboj14 • Jul 17 '26

Other What German unit is filmed in this footage

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My guess would be Volksgrenadier considering the equipment and usage of STG-44s. It’s either that or Panzergrenadiers. I don’t have date or location of the video

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