1. Two Polish soldiers pose inside the turret ring of a Maus hull at the Krupp
proving grounds in Meppen, Germany
(1945) 2. Soviet soldiers, left,
hands clasped to heads, marched back to the rear of the German lines on July 2, 1941, as a column
of German troops move up to the front at the start of hostilities between Germany and Russia.
3. German troops lie concealed in the undergrowth during the fighting prior to the capture of Kiev,
Ukraine, in 1941. 4. A resident of
Berlin walks past a makeshift barricade following the battle for the city. May 1945.
5. Two more of 501st Schwere Panzer Abteilung’s Tiger II 332.
The first pic shows it in a comparison shot with a Sherman 76 outside Spa station in early 1945.
The second show it at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds after the war.
6. Jewish victims from the Siedlce Ghetto wait their turn to board a train
to Treblinka. Although Treblinka would only be operational from July 1942 until October 1943,
between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews, along with 2,000 Romani people would be murdered there.
7. A Waffen SS sniper in a camouflaged hideout taking aim next to a sign warning of snipers,
date+location unknown
8. Original colour photo of TKS Tankettes near Modlin,
Poland. Taken by photographer Hugo Jaeger. 1939
9. Two aces: Walter Wolfrum from JG52 (left) and Hugo Broch from JG54 (right).
10. Rare pic for me. A Small medical column of cars and a
Sd.Kfz. 251 ford a small river in the Soviet Union.
11. Panzer iii tanks on the move, date and location unknown
12. Original color photo of two Panzer crewmen
looking inspecting the side of their Panzer IV. No date given.
13. 4.7 cm PaK(t) (Sfl.) auf Fgst.Pz.Kpfw.35 R 731. A Czech 47 mm AT gun mounted on a Renault R35
chassis, 174 were produced and took active part in the invasion of the Soviet Union.
14. German MG 42 team shooting during the
battle for Stalingrad around the Stalingrad train station. 1942
15. Extremely racist propaganda depicting President Roosevelt
instructing American Airmen. August 15, 1943.
16. German soldiers speak with a North African local, Tunisia, February 1943
17. German school boy, date unknown.
18. German mortar in action. Eastern Front, date unknown.
19. German tank on the Eastern Front, 1943.
20. An Sd.Kfz 263 of 4.Panzer Division during the Invasion of Poland. September 1939.
21. German and Italian soldiers meet in Bosnia during the invasion of Yugoslavia (April, 1941)
22. German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters lined up and abandoned somewhere in Germany, 1945.
23. Tiger II turret number 332 of 501st SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung. This vehicle was recovered
near La Gleize on the 26/12/1944 by the US 463rd Ordnance Evacuation Company and eventually
transported to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. It is now in the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection
24. Kapitän zur See Hans-Jürgen Reinicke, former commander of the Third Reich
Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser ‘Prinz Eugen’, alongside U.S. Navy Captain A.H. Graubart,
at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, February 1946, when the ship was awarded to the USA.
25. Heinz Guderian (far right), with Swedish and German officers, during a visit to Sweden, 1929
26. The E-100 on its journey to the UK.
It was transported on a Culemeyer Straßenroller to the Chertsey Armoured research facility for
evaluation. These pictures are taken in in 1946 at Nienburg in Germany.
27. Funeral of fallen soldiers. Croatia late 1943
28. German POW. France, 1945.
29. German soldier with a young girl in the recently annexed Sudetenland, October 1938.
30. Spanish Blue Division soldier at the front in 1941.
31. Oberst Karl Lorenz of the Großdeutschland Division conversing with two soldiers,
behind them is a Panther Ausf A. Lorenz would ultimately take command of the
Division on September 1st 1944 and ended the war as Generalmajor. He died in 1964.
32. "Stalingrad is Conquered!" Recalled Nazi
propaganda celebrating the conquest of Stalingrad, 1942
33. Obersturmbannführer (Lt. Colonel) of 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division Nordland.
Probably in Estonia, 1944. 34. Hitler, Blomberg, Mussolini,
and Göring together during the Italian leader’s state visit in September 1937.
35. Afrika Korps deployed in the field, 1941.
36. 4 Fallschirmjäger Division, at Anzio in Italy,
January 1944. The trooper shows off a captured British ‘Bren’ Light Machine Gun.
37. German soldiers pose with war trophies. Eastern Front, date unknown.
38. Great pictures of Tiger II 332 being loaded on the Sd.
Anh 121 Tiefladeanhänger fur 60t (or 75t) trailer. At Spa station. It took 2 tractors to tow it.
39. A German officer shows a Luftwaffe
Honorary Cup (Ehrenpokal für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg), date unknown.
40. Finnish SS-Rottenführer Aarne Hakkarainen on the left
enjoys a smoke with his pal, date unknown. 41. Kriegsmarine Admiral Graf Spee with a
pair of fake guns above the forward turret in an attempt to disguise her true identity. Nov 1939.
42. Here we have an Sdkfz 9, 18 tonne Famo towing a Sd. Ah. 116 trailer with a huge
transformer (likely looted) in Kharkov in 1943. Note the rear steering visible in pic
3 and 4 making the unit very manoeuvre-able and you can see the rear driver on the far right.
43. A Luger P-08 in the foreground, date unknown.
44. Studio portrait of a young German soldier, date unknown.
45. Tiger number 111 of schwere Panzerabteilung 501 in Tunisia.
The Battalion fought in North Africa from November 1942 until it surrendered in May 1943.
It was then reformed September 1943, and again in July 1944.
46. Promoted to lieutenant from 1 January 1945,
Hugo Broch received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for 79 aerial victories on 12 March 1945.
This was presented to him a few days later by the Commander-in-Chief of Luftflotte 1,
General der Flieger Curt Pflugbeil. 47. German soldiers carrying Christmas
tree somewhere on the Eastern front. Date and location unknown
48. Zündapp KS600
49. Lithuanian SS recruitment poster
50. "France's Fault", from a party magazine cover (1940) featuring racist & anti-Semitic caricatures