German Infantry

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German soldiers, taken prisoner by the Polish army during the Nazi invasion, are shown while they were held captive in Warsaw, on October 2, 1939.

 

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Waves of German paratroopers land on snow-covered rock ledges in the Norwegian port and city of Narvik, during the German invasion of the Scandinavian country.

 

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A group of German Gebirgsjägers (mountain troops) in action in Narvik, Norway, in 1940.

 

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German soldiers move through a burning Norwegian village, in April 1940, during the German invasion.

 

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German parachute troops descending on Fort Eben Emael in Belgium, on May 30, 1940, part of a larger surprise attack.

 

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German parachute troops man a machine gun post in the Netherlands, on June 2, 1940. This photo came from a camera found on German parachute troops who were taken prisoner.

 

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German troops parade in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 20, 1940 to celebrate Hitler's birthday.

 

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A dead German soldier, one of the many thousands who fell during the invasions of 1940, somewhere in France, on June 9, 1940.

 

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German troops walk down a deserted street in Luxembourg, on May 21, 1940, with rifles, pistols and grenades ready to protect themselves.

 

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Nazi motorcyclists pass through a destroyed town in France in 1940.

 

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Heavy mortars of Hitler's Army are set in position under cliffs on the French side of the English Channel, at Fecamp, France, in 1940, as Germany occupied France and the low countries.

 

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A German soldier stands in the tower of the cathedral, gazing down upon the captured French city of Strasbourg on July 15, 1940. Adolf Hitler visited the city in June of 1940, declaring plans for the Strasbourg Cathedral, stating that it should become a "national sanctuary of the German people."

 

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If he was my guy one could expect incoming multiple rounds from unseen Shermans impacting on his forehead, demolishing the top two floors.

 

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A squad of German soldiers pass through a Greek village, during the occupation of Greece, in May 1941.

 

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A fallen paratrooper and his parachute, on the island of Crete, in early 1941.

 

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To alert their own airforce to their presence, soldiers spread the Swastika across boats used by the S.S. troops to cross the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, on May 23, 1941.

 

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A German infantryman walks toward the body of a killed Soviet soldier and a burning BT-7 light tank in the southern Soviet Union in in 1941, during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

 

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German infantrymen watch enemy movements from their trenches shortly before an advance inside Soviet territory, on July 10, 1941.

 

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German soldiers cross a river, identified as the Don river, in a stormboat, sometime in 1941, during the German invasion of the Caucasus region in the Soviet Union.

 

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German soldiers move a horse-drawn vehicle over a corduroy road while crossing a wetland area, in October 1941, near Salla on Kola Peninsula, a Soviet-occupied region in northeast Finland.