German Infantry

[Louis]

Soldiers celebrate New Year on the Eastern Front, 1 Jan 1942.

 

[Louis]

Tripoli 1941. A soldier waits while his companion makes repairs on his clothes.

 

[Rico]

Pistol practice.

 

[Louis]

Rest during a lull in the Battle of Belgorod. The sign states “The shortest way home is as a Russian war captive.” The germans failed to win the battle and Belgorod was retaken by the Soviets on 6 Aug 1943.

 

[Louis]

Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw, Oct 1939. Crouched looks at the famous German film director, producer, screenwriter Leni Riefenstahl (1902/2003)

 

[Rico]

German infantry squad resting up in a shed somewhere in Russia, Summer 1941

 

[Ulvjager]

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"Haben Sie Milch?"

 

[Louis]

On Antwerp, Belgium, German and Flemish officers attend a ceremony marking the departure of a contingent of Flemish volunteers in 1944.

 

[Louis]

German soldiers playing with snowball one another during a winter day at a French train station, 1942.

 

[Louis]

You really have to be very tired to sit on that...

 

[Rico]

Classic image of early war German Landser ... Belgium 1940... check out the pistol in the boot.

 

[Gunner]

And the Sten in hand no?

 

[Rico]

And the Sten in hand no?

I think that is an MP 28

 

[Gunner]

That's a new one on me Rico. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[rocketman]

Classic image of early war German Landser ... Belgium 1940... check out the pistol in the boot.

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And that was the early omen that the Germans would eventually "shoot themselves in the foot" and lose the war.

 

[Rico]

And that was the early omen that the Germans would eventually "shoot themselves in the foot" and lose the war.

 

[Louis]

H. Himmler, Russian front. 1942.

 

[Gunner]

Man, I really do hate that guy.

 

[mTk]

Yeah, of all the Nazis I think just maybe he was the worst of the bunch. His demise was too easy.

"The duty officer, Captain Thomas Selvester, began a routine interrogation. Himmler admitted who he was, and Selvester had the prisoner searched. Himmler was taken to the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg, where a doctor conducted a medical exam on him. The doctor attempted to examine the inside of Himmler's mouth, but the prisoner was reluctant to open it and jerked his head away. Himmler then bit into a hidden potassium cyanide pill and collapsed onto the floor. He was dead within 15 minutes.[197][198] Shortly afterward, Himmler's body was buried in an unmarked grave near Lüneburg. The grave's location remains unknown." - Wiki

 

[Louis]

Removing the plaque from the commissariat building in Gdynia, Poland. 1939.