Wehrmacht infantrymen advance across a snowy field on the outskirts of the city of Rostov-on-Don, USSR.

Winter offensive

German observers with large telephoto lens take pictures of Russian positions in the Eastern Front; 1941.

High tech equipment

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel tours the Normandy beaches and inspects the anti-invasion obstacles; May, 1944.

Expected landing sites

Wounded German soldiers taken as POWs by American troops during Operation Dragoon wait to be treated by medics at a collection point. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; August 1944.

All over for them

A decorated German Army Sergeant pets the unit mascot, a puppy; note the bullet hole damage to his helmet; Eastern Front.

Tough looking guy - soft heart

GIs of the 99th Infantry Div. "Battle Babies" march into captivity, but they held the twin villages of Krinkelt-Rocherath just east of Elsenborn Ridge in Belgium for three days during the Ardennes Offensive. Front row left - Sgt. Luther C. Symons aka "Shorty"

Escorted by German soldiers

Soldiers from the 9th SS Panzer division "Hohenstaufen" walking through a light forest. 1944, Location unknown.

Reconnaissance Patrol

A group of the German soldiers from the Luftwaffe flak unit on the front steps of the Sainte-Mère-Église Hôtel de Ville (=City Hall), Normandy, France; Spring 1944.

The 82nd Airborne guys will be here soon...

A German soldier is about to throw a  hand grenade into a house, while his comrades wait for the result; Eastern Front.

Suspicious house

German infantrymen check weapons and stock up on ammunition during the battle of Kasserine Pass; Tunisia, North Africa, February 1943.

Tested, seasoned troops against newcomers

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.

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