A group of soldiers and officers from the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" (3.SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf") near a destroyed Soviet T-34 tank in Romania. In the center of the photo, wearing a helmet, is an SS-Untersturmführer (equivalent to a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht). Next to him, on the right, is a Hauptmann (captain) and on the left, a sergeant major from the 228th Assault Gun Brigade (Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 228) of the Wehrmacht.

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Mountain hunters of the Wehrmacht preparing for a horseback performance.

Southern Germany, 1937.

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Adolf Hitler visiting Army Group South HQ at Mariupol, Ukraine in December 1941.

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Finnish T-26E light infantry tank and NSU motorcycle

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German paratroopers in position, during the Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944

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German soldiers with captured nagant revolvers


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German Jaegers of the 1st Ski Brigade armed with StG-44 assault rifles in the Pripyat region, Ukraine.

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Oslo, Krakow, Warsaw, Paris — German placed a V sign in the cities as a sign of their victory.

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A German soldier eats a sandwich in Horch 901 with a bullet-pierced windshield on the Eastern Front.

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German soldier with a Soviet TT-30

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SA doing their activism within the city of Kiel with the poster "Forward for Greater Germany".


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Standartenführer Skuistlauks decorates a Hauptsturmführer from the 15th SS Grenadier Division (1st Latvian) with the Iron Cross 1st Class.

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German troops horsing around beside a Maultier truck.

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Elite soldiers of Waffen-SS "Wiking" Division, awarded with the Iron Cross

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Grenadiers from LMG section prepare for combat, carrying MG belts and grenades. Somewhere in the Eastern Front, exact date and place unknown

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Grenadier of German 12th SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend', France, 21 Jun 1944

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German troops of Army Group North during the advance through Latvia in July, 1941.

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German soldiers pose with a captured Soviet heavy tank T-35, 1941

Only 59 of these massive multi-turreted tanks were built, and their mechanical unreliability meant that most of them were lost due to breakdowns, not even enemy fire.

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