Tag: German soldiers
German offensive on Moscow. (+8 Photo in color)
The forward units of the 11th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht near Volokolamsk. Winter attack on Moscow. These war color photos were taken one hundred ... Read More
Wehrmacht soldiers could be shot for having sex with these women
Racial purity in the Third Reich The problem of racial purity in the Third Reich was given priority. The Nazi ideological machine sought total control ... Read More
Minesweeper War Badge
Minesweeper War Badge History The Minesweeper War Badge or Minesweepers, Sub-Chasers and Escort-Vessel War Badge (German: Kriegsabzeichen für Minensuch-, U-Boot-Jagd- und Sicherungsverbände) was a World ... Read More
General Assault Badge (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen)
German soldier awarded General Assault Badge. The badge “For participating in general assault attacks” (German: Allgemeine Sturmabzeichen) was established on January 1, 1940 by order ... Read More
Strong point of the Wehrmacht
Winter was very snowy this year, some levels of snow in the forest waist-high. But that did not stop me from searching what appeared to ... Read More
Eastern Front Medal
Eastern Front Medal/badges The Eastern Front Medal/badges (The badge below are part of my personal collection.) was a World War II German military decoration awarded to ... Read More
Wound Badge (Verwundetenabzeichen)
The Wound Badge (German: Verwundetenabzeichen) was a German military decoration first promulgated by Wilhelm II, German Emperor on 3 March 1918, which was awarded to ... Read More
Cross “For Military Merit”
The Cross of Military Merit (German: Kriegsverdienstkreuz) is a German military cross/badge established by Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1939 (on the anniversary of the ... Read More
Kyiv in the eyes of the German soldier. Occupation of the capital of Ukraine in photos
On the night of September 19, 1941 the Red Army left Kiev, parts of the Wehrmacht entered the city. The Kiev defensive operation ended in ... Read More
Holocaust General. The grave of Hitler’s “butcher” was opened in Berlin
Reinhard Heydrich was one of the initiators of the "final solution of the Jewish question" (Photo: WIKI) As BBC reports unknown people in Berlin uncovered ... Read More
They returned from the war.
This particular morning, our camp buzzing at dawn. The night before, our team leader announced that local residents had confirmed a site within the nearby ... Read More
And again the Second World War reminded of itself.
We learned about this incredible search from Victoria Simkina, a member Search-Dnepr of Krivoy Rog. He was engaged in the soldiers exhumation. This Febraury, locals from ... Read More
Bayonets of the sample 1898/1905 to the Mauser Gewehr 98 rifles
The Mauser Gewehr 98 rifle was approached by bayonets of several kinds. One of them was a modified bayonet of the sample of 1898/1905. The ... Read More
German sapper who did not have time to escape
On September 11, members of the Bogdanov search squad found a Wehrmacht soldier, along with his ammunition gear, in the area of the village of ... Read More
The dead may take revenge.
Places of bloody battles and mass graves are considered by some scientists as geopathic zones due to anomalous phenomena which occur on them. The explanation ... Read More