German Infantry

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With a burning bridge across the Dnieper river in the background, a German sentry keeps watch in the recently-captured city of Kiev, in 1941.

 

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Nazi troops lie concealed in the undergrowth during the fighting prior to the capture of Kiev, Ukraine, in 1941.

 

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Russian soldiers, left, hands clasped to heads, marched back to the rear of the German lines on July 2, 1941, as a column of Nazi troops move up to the front at the start of hostilities between Germany and Russia.

 

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German soldiers, supported by armored personnel carriers, move into a burning Russian village at an unknown location during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 26, 1941.

 

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German troops make a hasty advance through a blazing Leningrad suburb, in Russia on Nov. 24, 1941.

 

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Russian snipers leave their hide-out in a wheat field, somewhere in Russia, on August 27, 1941, watched by German soldiers. In foreground is a disabled soviet tank

 

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German POWs in Moscow

 

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The appalling conditions ruling on the Russian front following the thaw when the winter snows melted and resulted in widespread floods on May 23, 1942. German soldiers wade through icy water which is knee deep, somewhere in Russia.

 

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A scene in a Russian village on the front line after the Germans had been driven out, sometime in 1942.

 

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This photo was taken from a the body of a dead Germany officer killed in Russia, showing a German firing squad shooting Soviet civilians in the back as they sit beside their own mass grave in Babi Yar, an infamous ravine in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, in 1942. Between 1941 and 1942, an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 Jews, Soviet prisoners, communists, gypsies, Ukrainian nationalists and civilians were executed by the Germans in Babi Yar.

 

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Some of the 97 German prisoners captured by the British forces in Egypt in a raid on Tel El Eisa, Egypt, on September 1, 1942.

 

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This German had sought cover in a bomb shelter, attempting to escape an Allied attack in the Libyan desert, on December 1, 1942. He did not make it.

 

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German prisoners captured during an Allied raid on German-Italian position in Sened, Tunisia on February 27, 1943. The hatless soldier stated that he was only twenty years old

 

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A German soldier lies sprawled against a mortar after a bayonet attack in Tunis, Tunisia, on May 17, 1943.

 

[Rico]

Battle-weary, battered Landser ... looks like he's been through some heavy s***

 

[Louis]

Obviously he was not a soldier of barracks. -

 

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soldier of 12 SS Hitlerjugend

 

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Thread with cleanup of broken images. -

 

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Waffen-SS machine gunners wearing camouflage face veils.

 

[Louis]