Brave soldiers at the very beginning of their combat journey in 1939.

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German Luftwaffe pilot in oxygen mask

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'Rome, mother of civilisation' — Fascist Italian illustration, late 1930s.

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A sergeant major and a staff sergeant major from the Wehrmacht's 24th Panzer Division, armed with MP40 submachine guns, fight in a bomb crater on Vokzalnaya Street in Stalingrad

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Panzer Lehr Division awaiting the battle at Normandy, 1944

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German soldier fires an MG 34 machine gun with a drum magazine

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SS-Totenkopfverbände with their new trophies from the Eastern Front.

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German soldier with a MG 08/15

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German soldiers pull the camouflage net on the positions of the 88-mm FlaK 18 anti-aircraft gun, Germany, 1940.

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Hermann Otto Hoyer - SA Man Rescuing Wounded Comrade In The Street, 1933


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Girls from the auxiliary communications service of the Wehrmacht on a lesson with gas masks, March 1943.

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A German tank crosses the Aisne River the day before France's surrender. France, June 21, 1940.


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'Spain Revived' — Spanish poster (1939) celebrating the Nationalist victory in the Civil War.

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Germans are preparing to clear the village of Soviets with automatic weapons.

USSR, August 22, 1942.

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Volkssturm before being sent to the front. Photo taken in Königsberg. March 1945.

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Postcard featuring men of the Axis countries slaying the Soviet hydra

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Portrait of young German soldier.

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A Wehrmacht private on guard duty on the North Sea coast in Holland. The soldier is armed with a Mauser Gewehr 33/40 carbine.

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German snipers clean their weapons and equipment during a break between battles.

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German cavalrymen training before World War II.

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