German soldiers cross the border into Russia over the river Narva from Estonia during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In the background can be seen the medieval Ivangorod (Estonian: Jaanilinn) castle and fortress; August 1941.

Crossing into the USSR

 Dead Russian soldiers atop a T-26 tank at a frontier post. The German soldiers look on as they pass by; 22 June, 1941.

Operation Barbarossa

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa on a relatively rare staff car, an Italian Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Coloniale, only 150 of this variant were made; June 1942.

Desert Fox - not in his regular car 

German Fallschirmjäger with his MG 34 machine gun on the ready, relaxing with a smoke; Eastern Front, early 1943.

All calm on the battlefield

German soldiers battle under the cover of a Pz.Kpfw. III (Panzer III) tank on the territory of the USSR; March 1942.

Rifle fire with the enemy

German machine gun crew during the fighting in Austria; April, 1945.

 

Street fight in Vienna

German soldiers warm themselves by the fire in the brutal cold, during the lull of the fighting near Moscow; 1941.

Cold Russian weather

Four German soldiers on the lookout with a 7.92 mm MG-34 machine gun on the Eastern Front; 1941.

Machine gun team on the alert

Soviet female soldier captured by the German Army

Combat nurse or sniper?

German motorcyclist troops move into the Czechoslovak capital of Prague. Residents line the sidewalk and the sympathizers welcome them with the Nazi salute; March, 1939.

Wehrmacht soldiers roll into Prague

A German Army medic seeking cover behind an anti-tank obstacle. There are  two dead American soldiers near him. You can make out the M1911 .45 caliber handgun in the soldier's hand in the upper left corner.

German medic, dead American soldiers

German soldiers with an MG-34 machine gun in a trench in forward position in the Belgorod region of Russia; 1943.

Up front to spot the enemy

A German non-commissioned officer relaxing with a smoke, while holding a captured Soviet self-loading SVT-38 semi-automatic rifle; Somewhere on the Eastern Front, 1942.

Posing with a captured weapon

Three SS soldiers with a 7.92 mm MG-34 machine gun in close range of a burning Soviet village; 1941.

Burning houses in sight

German soldiers cautiously move along a mountain trail southwest of the rural community of Bagn, (60 miles north-west of Oslo) during the invasion of Norway; April 18, 1940.

Up a snowy mountain trail

Loading German wounded on the Junkers Ju-52 ambulance plane in North Africa; 1942.
 

Transport wounded soldiers

German soldiers under cover of tanks (in the foreground a medium tank Pz.Kpfw. IV, a.k.a. Panther IV) attacking a village in the USSR; July, 1941.

Village under attack

Captured Germans in the area of the village of Krasny Bor in the Tosno district of the Leningrad region. 1943

Captured Germans in the area of Krasny Bor. 1943

German battery of 81 mm mortars (8-cm GrW 34) in position in a Soviet settlement; March 6, 1942.

Mortar squad in a village

German soldiers take up position before the attack near Kharkov, USSR; May, 1942.

Second Battle of Kharkov

A German infantry unit passing through a section of the forest during the Ardennes offensive; Belgium, December 1944.

During the Battle of the Bulge

A German sentry at a bunker installed on the northern coast of France, outside the city of Étretat, north of Le Havre; Spring, 1944.

Keeping an eye for the invasion

German soldiers bundle up against the bitter cold, wait in a trench southeast of Lake Ilmen. Leningrad (Central)  Front; Russia, January 26, 1943.

On Guard

The commander of the 7th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht, Major General Erwin Rommel; 11/15/1891 - 10/14/1944). Photo: 1940.

Posing for a portrait

Panzergrenadiers of the SS troops in the trenches on the Soviet-German front; August 1944.

German Forces

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