Killed soldiers of the Second World War. WWII: Fritz - sphinx_616. Killed Soviet soldier in a trench
Second World War (September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945) - the war of two world military-political coalitions, which became the largest war in human history. 61 states out of 73 existing at that time participated in it (80% of the population globe). Fighting were conducted on the territory of three continents and in the waters of four oceans. This is the only conflict in which nuclear weapons were used.
At the top: 1941. Belarus, a German reporter eats a cucumber offered by a peasant woman
1941. Artillerymen of the 2nd battery of the 833rd heavy artillery battalion of the Wehrmacht are preparing to fire a 600-mm self-propelled mortar “Karl” (Karl Gerät 040 Nr.III “Odin”) in the Brest area.
1941. Battle of Moscow. Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism or LVZ (638 Wehrmacht Infantry Regiment)
1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers dressed for the weather during battle
1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers captured Russian prisoners of war in a trench
1941. Waffen-SS
1941. Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili among prisoners of war during the battle for Smolensk
1941. Leningrad, Colonel General Erich Hoepner and Major General Franz Landgraf
1941. Minsk, German soldiers in an occupied city
1941. Murmansk, Mountain Riflemen made a stop along the way
1941. German artillerymen inspect the remains of the heavy artillery tractor “Voroshilovets”
1941. German prisoners of war guarded by Russian soldiers
1941. German soldiers in position. Behind them in the ditch are Russian prisoners of war.
1941. Odessa, Romanian soldiers inspect captured property of the Soviet army
1941. Novgorod, awarding of German soldiers
1941. Russian soldiers inspect trophies taken from the Germans and discover potatoes in a gas mask case
1941. Red Army soldiers studying war trophies
1941. Sonderkraftfahrzeug 10 tractor and soldiers of the Reich SS division drive through the village
1941. Ukraine, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler talks with peasants
1941. Ukraine, column of Russian prisoners of war including women
1941. Ukraine, Soviet prisoner of war before execution on charges of being an agent of the GPU
1941. Two Russian prisoners of war talk with German soldiers from the Waffen-SS
1941.Moscow, Germans in the vicinity of the city
1941.German traffic controllers
1941.Ukraine, a German soldier accepts an offered glass of milk
1942. Two German sentries on the Eastern Front
1942. Leningrad region, a column of German prisoners of war in a besieged city
1942. Leningrad region, German troops at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city
1942. Leningrad region, one of the first Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger
1942. German troops cross the Don
1942. German soldiers clear the road after a snowfall
1942. Pechory, German officers are photographed with clergy
1942. Russia, corporal checks documents of peasant women
1942. Russia, a German gives a cigarette to a Russian prisoner of war
1942. Russia, German soldiers leave a burning village
1942. Stalingrad, the remains of a German He-111 bomber among the city ruins
1942. Terek Cossacks from self-defense units.
1942. Non-commissioned officer Helmut Kolke of the 561st Wehrmacht Brigade with the crew on his Marder II self-propelled gun, the next day he received the German Cross in gold and the Honor Buckle
1942. Leningrad region
1942. Leningrad region, Volkhov Front, a German gives a piece of bread to a child
1942. Stalingrad, a German soldier cleans a K98 Mauser during a break between battles
1943. Belgorod region, German soldiers talk with women and children
1943. Belgorod region, Russian prisoners of war
1943. A peasant woman tells Soviet intelligence officers about the location of enemy units. North of the city of Orel
1943. German soldiers have just caught a Soviet soldier
1943. Russia, two German prisoners of war
1943. Russian Cossacks in the Wehrmacht during a blessing (priests in the foreground)
1943. Sappers neutralize German anti-tank mines
1943. Snipers of the unit of senior lieutenant F.D. Lunina fire volleys at enemy aircraft
1943. Stalingrad, a column of German prisoners of war on the edge of the city
1943. Stalingrad, column of German, Romanian and Italian prisoners of war
1943. Stalingrad, German prisoners of war pass by a woman with empty buckets. There will be no luck.
1943. Stalingrad, captured German officers
1943. Ukraine, Znamenka, the driver of the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger looks out of the car hatch at a tank stuck in the mud on the river bank
1943.Stalingrad, city center on the day of the surrender of German troops
1944. Commander of the 4th Air Command, Luftwaffe Colonel General Otto Desloch and commander of II./StG2, Major Dr. Maxsimilian Otte (shortly before his death)
1944. Crimea, capture of German soldiers by Soviet sailors
1944. Leningrad region, column of German troops
1944. Leningrad region, German prisoners of war
1944. Moscow. Passage of 57,000 German prisoners of war on the streets of the capital.
1944. Lunch of captured German officers in Krasnogorsk special camp No. 27
1944. Romania. German units evacuated from Crimea
1945. Poland, a column of German prisoners of war crosses the bridge over the Oder towards Ukraine
Without date. Two Soviet partisans inspect a captured German MG-34 machine gun
Without date. German soldiers clean their personal weapons. One of the soldiers has a captured Soviet PPSh submachine gun
Without date. German court martial
Without date. The Germans are taking away livestock from the population.
Without date. A Luftwaffe non-commissioned officer poses with a bottle while sitting on the head of a bust of I.V. Stalin
A Soviet soldier who shot himself to avoid being captured by the Germans.
These are the events of the Lyuban offensive operation to break the blockade of Leningrad (January 7 - April 30, 1942) - after the unsuccessful offensive of the Soviet troops and their encirclement, the Germans carried out an operation on Volkhov to destroy the cauldron of the 2nd Shock Army ( settlements Myasnoy Bor, Spasskaya Polist, Mostki).
A frozen German Oberfeltwebel clutching a vase of goods looted from the USSR.
The original title of the photo is “Death of a Soldier.”
Junior political instructor Alexey Eremenko rouses the fighters to attack.
This is perhaps the most famous photo Great Patriotic War, on par with which is only a photograph of the Victory Banner over the Reichstag. A. Eremenko died a few seconds after the picture was taken.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya before execution. November 29, 1941
The body of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, executed by the Germans.
After the battle near the village of Panskoye
Broken German tanks and corpses of German soldiers who died near the village of Panskoye, Kursk region in a battle with the 2nd Guards Rifle Division (future 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Taman Division).
The dead Soviet crew of the Maxim machine gun.
A Soviet three-ton truck ZiS-5 with ammunition, destroyed as a result of shelling on the road to Smolensk, and the bodies of dead Red Army soldiers under it. In the background are advancing German troops.
The German soldier, having been wounded, continued to fight until he died from a grenade explosion.
German columns pass by a cart with a Red Army soldier, which had previously come under fire.
Killed soviet soldier in the trench.
A dead German paratrooper with a grenade in his hand.
German soldiers who died in Pillau (modern Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region).
Killed Soviet soldiers near the tracks of a KV tank.
Dead Red Army soldiers in a trench.
Burnt bodies of German soldiers dumped on the armor of the PzKpfw V "Panther" tank. An MG-42 machine gun is visible.
The corpses of killed or frozen German soldiers near Stalingrad.
German soldiers killed at Stalingrad. February 1943. The author's title of the photo is “I was convinced to death.”
After battle. Dead Red Army soldiers and a damaged BT tank.
A destroyed Soviet BT tank and a killed tanker.
A dead German soldier on the armor of a German Pz.III tank. Despite the fact that the body is lying on the tank, judging by its shape, it is not a tank driver.
A German soldier next to the bodies of dead Red Army soldiers.
After a direct hit by an artillery shell on a dugout.
Dead German soldier.
A German soldier takes a photograph of one of his fallen comrades.
Killed Red Army soldiers in a roadside ditch.
It is very possible that these are prisoners shot by the Germans: the soldiers do not have belts - they were taken from the prisoners.
Soviet heavy tank KV-2, destroyed during the battle: there are traces of numerous hits on the armor, the right side was torn apart by a large-caliber shell, the gun barrel was pierced. On the armor is a dead tanker.
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Wars should have no place in a civilized society, but they, large or small, are fought continuously. We have all seen many photographs from the Great Patriotic War. Photojournalists, risking their lives along with the military, were able to leave us a lot of evidence, thanks to which we can plunge into history...
Russian prisoners of war. Lithuania, Vilna, June 1941.
War correspondent. Summer, 1941.
But how many of us have seen military evidence from the other side? Are we interested in this? Are we ready to see how the invaders of our land perceived this war? Still, no matter how painful it may be to look at some of these photographs, studying them can provide a lot for understanding that page of our history.
Captured Russian officer. Summer, 1941
Soldiers on a landing boat. Summer, 1942
Prisoners during Operation Citadel. Summer, 1943
Motorized squad. Summer, 1943
SS officer. 1944
SS troops at rest. 1944
Rocket mortars. Summer, 1942
Tracked tractors and guns. March-April 1944.
German SS cavalry. July 16, 1941.
Column of Russian prisoners. July 1941
Tank officer. Summer 1941.
Tankers. Summer 1941.
Conversing soldiers. Summer 1941.
Himmler in Kharkov. 1942-1943
Himmler with officers. 1942-1943
Soldiers from the ditch fire from a grenade launcher. Summer 1941.
A column of German StuG III assault guns on the march to the Caucasus.
Column of Soviet prisoners of war. In the center there is a running soldier - perhaps trying to escape.
A column of tanks from the SS division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” near Kharkov. The third battle for Kharkov.
The commander of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, Standartenführer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with a fox terrier in the Kovel area.
The commander distributes cigarettes to his soldiers. Pomerania, late February 1945.
Red Army commander before execution. August-September 1941, Ukraine
Tankers examine the mark of a Soviet shell on the armor of their tank.
The commander of the Finnish squadron at the Utti airfield near the Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter
German soldiers inspect the Soviet Ar-2 dive bomber shot down near Demyansk. A very rare car (only about 200 were produced).
German soldiers cross state border THE USSR.
German soldiers pose against the backdrop of the French giant Char 2C tank.
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The commander of the 3rd battalion of the motorized regiment "Der Fuhrer" of the SS division "Das Reich", SS Hauptsturmführer Vinzenz Kaiser (right) with officers on the Kursk Bulge.
The commander of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, Standartenführer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with a fox terrier in the Kovel area.
Commander of the Red Banner Partisan Detachment named after Chkalov S.D. Penkin.
The commander of the K-3 submarine, Lieutenant Commander K.I. Malafeev at the periscope.
The commander of the rifle battalion Romanenko talks about the military affairs of the young intelligence officer - Vitya Zhaivoronka.
The commander of the Pz.kpfw VI "Tiger" tank No. 323 of the 3rd company of the 503rd heavy tank battalion, non-commissioned officer Futermeister, shows the mark of a Soviet shell on the armor of his tank.
Tank commander, Lieutenant B.V. Smelov shows the hole in the turret of the German Tiger tank, knocked out by Smelov’s crew, to Lieutenant Likhnyakevich (who knocked out 2 fascist tanks in the last battle).
The commander of the Finnish 34th squadron (Lentolaivue-34), Major Eino Luukkanen, at the Utti airfield near the Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter.
Squadron commander from the 728th IAP I.A. Ivanenkov (right) listens to the report of the I-16 fighter pilot Denisov on the completion of a combat mission. Kalinin Front, January 1943.
The commander of a squadron of Soviet American-made A-20 Boston bombers, Major Orlov, assigns a combat mission to the flight personnel. North Caucasus.
Commanders of the 29th Tank Brigade of the Red Army near an armored car BA-20 in Brest-Litovsk.
The command post of the 178th artillery regiment (45th rifle division) of Major Rostovtsev in the basement of the calibration shop of the Red October plant.
Komsomol card of the deceased Red Army soldier Kazakh Nurmakhanov No. 20405684 with the entry on the pages “I will die but not a step back.” 3rd Belorussian Front.
Krasnaya Zvezda correspondents Zakhar Khatsrevin and Boris Lapin question the German defector. Both correspondents died while trying to break out of the Kyiv pocket on September 19, 1941.
Red Army signalman Mikhail Usachev leaves his autograph on the wall of the Reichstag.
Red Army soldiers capture a German Pz.Kpfw tank that was knocked out on the battlefield near Mozdok. IV Ausf F-2. The tank does not have a front-mounted machine gun.
Red Army soldiers in position with a captured German MG-34 machine gun. On the right is machine gunner V. Kuzbaev.
Red Army soldiers examine the German trench they captured on the Panther line. The corpses of German soldiers are visible at the bottom and parapet of the trench.
Red Army soldiers surrender to the soldiers of the 9th motorized infantry company of the 2nd SS Reich Division on a village street.
Red Army soldiers at the grave of a friend. 1941
Levi Chase is one of three pilots who scored aerial victories over aircraft of three Axis powers - Germany, Japan and Italy. In total, Chase shot down 12 enemy aircraft during the war.
The light cruiser Santa Fe approaches the damaged aircraft carrier Franklin.
German soldiers inspect a damaged Soviet T-34 tank.
German soldiers inspect a Soviet Ar-2 dive bomber shot down near Demyansk. A very rare car (only about 200 were produced).
German soldiers near the remains of a Soviet KV-2 tank destroyed as a result of the detonation of ammunition.
German tanks Pz.Kpfw. VI "Tiger" of the 505th heavy tank battalion near the city of Velikiye Luki.
German Admiral Karl Dönitz (center). Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces from April 30 to May 23, 1945.
German ace Heinz (Oskar-Heinrich) "Pritzl" Bär inspects the American B-17 bomber he shot down.
A German paratrooper looks at a pile of captured weapons captured in the city of Corinth (Greece). In the foreground and to the right of the paratrooper are captured Greek officers.
A German paratrooper (Fallschirmjäger) poses with a captured English Bren machine gun.
German fighter Messerschmitt Bf.109G-10 from 6.JG51 at the Raab airfield in Hungary. This plane was flown by Lieutenant Kühlein.
German battleship Tirpitz under attack British aviation. Operation Tungsten April 3, 1943. A direct hit to the tower is clearly visible.
A German Oberfeldwebel prepares a site for demolition railway in the Grodno region. At the moment of the photograph, the Oberfeldwebel inserts the fuse into a stick of dynamite. July 16 - 17, 1944
German field uniform repair point. From the album of a private (from 1942 - corporal) of the 229th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Light Infantry Division.
German crew inside an assault gun.
German prisoners of war are led through the Majdanek concentration camp. In front of the prisoners on the ground lie the remains of death camp prisoners, and the crematorium ovens are also visible. Outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin.
German General Anton Dostler, sentenced to death on charges of executing 15 surrendered American saboteurs, is tied to a stake before being shot.
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