r/GermanWW2photos Mar 17 '26

Holocaust A Historian Identified the Nazi in This Infamous Photograph

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r/GermanWW2photos 5h ago

SS SS Heimwehr assaulting the Polish post office in Danzig. September 1, 1939.

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r/GermanWW2photos 10h ago

Fallschirmjäger / Paratroopers June 1944: Troops of the 4. Fallschirmjäger-Division withdrawing past the Roman Forum, marking the departure of the last German formation from Rome

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r/GermanWW2photos 15h ago

Luftwaffe / Air Force Servicing a German Messerschmitt Bf.110 fighter at an airfield in North Africa. 1941

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r/GermanWW2photos 1d ago

Death Card Death card for Werner poiesz a priest who was killed in action on November 28th 1943

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r/GermanWW2photos 1d ago

Colorization Field Marshal Walter Model in a discussion with SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel at a divisional command post regarding the situation during the Allied Operation Market Garden. September 1944.

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r/GermanWW2photos 1d ago

Feldgeistlicher Portrait of Wilhelm Wöste he was a military chaplain.

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Born in 1911 in Löningen near Oldenburg.
Ordained a priest in Münster in 1936.
From 1940, chaplain of the Army Sanitation Replacement and Training Battalion, Military District VI. From July 1941, a local parish priest in Rennes. From January 1943, divisional chaplain of the Sowjetunion [Eastern Front] division, and from October 1944 divisional chaplain in Metz (Saarland).
In 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Americans. After the war, Wöste was diocesan president of the KAB and head of the Bonn Diocesan Association of German Bishops. From 1977 to 1986, he was a bishop in the Diocese of Münster.


r/GermanWW2photos 1d ago

Heer / Army Eastern Front Panzer

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Photo found inside his pocket booklet. Booklet has a 1944 calendar inside. Only writing of note in the booklet is the following:

This gentleman is said to have been of considerable use, was very proper/correct, and showed concern/care at the time of his capture. As a result there is a loss of correspondence; he is in the hospital and must be transferred (or his stay extended). From his [side]. Because of professional knowledge, good work; and since the general situation has changed, he should hurry a great deal — beforehand the time of a return home is unpredictable.


r/GermanWW2photos 1d ago

Artillerie The crew of the German 280mm Krupp K5 (E) railway gun loads the gun before firing. 1942

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r/GermanWW2photos 2d ago

Feldgeistlicher Portrait of Military chaplain Josef Buslay

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Born 1910 in Oberhoppen (Westerwald).
Ordained a priest in Trier in 1936.
From March 1940: medical service in Łódź (Poland).
1940: military chaplain in France and Belgium.
1941: prison chaplain in Germersheim for German soldiers.
August 1941 to the end of 1944: served with various divisions in France, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans.
From April 1945: American and French prisoner of war.
Pastor Josef Buslay served as a parish priest in communities of the Diocese of Trier from 1948 onward.

Josef Buslay - I must say that during all those years I did not encounter a single military chaplain who sympathized with National Socialism. They were all—truly all—determined opponents of the Nazis.


r/GermanWW2photos 2d ago

Kriegsmarine / Navy Admiral Scheer at Gibraltar, 1936. Admiral Scheer's first overseas deployment began in July 1936 when she was sent to Spain to evacuate German civilians caught in the midst of the Spanish Civil War.

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r/GermanWW2photos 2d ago

Luftwaffe / Air Force FW190 Fighter

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I have no context on this picture I acquired these some years ago on my phone. Don’t remember where I got them I have several more but so as not to overwhelm everyone I’m just posting one at a time. I am very curious about this plane. Wish there was more than one photo and a better angle.


r/GermanWW2photos 3d ago

Feldgeistlicher Military Chaplain Emil Weis conducting a field service in Bogdanowo.

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r/GermanWW2photos 3d ago

Luftwaffe / Air Force The advance on Stalingrad, photographed by Otto Witt from the Luftwaffe propaganda company, summer 1942.

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r/GermanWW2photos 4d ago

Heer / Army My grandpa Erich

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Unfortunately i don’t know much about his story. He entered the Wehrmacht in 1937-38 as a "Offiziersanwärter“
In august 1939 he got promoted to Leutnant and got the ek2.
My information is that he was the whole war on the eastern front, was taken prisoner in march 1945 by soviet troops and was released 1949.


r/GermanWW2photos 3d ago

Panzer VK 45.01 (P) tank prototype undergoing mobility trials, spring 1942.

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r/GermanWW2photos 4d ago

Panzer Panzer III rolls past a burned out British Matilda II in North Africa in 1941

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r/GermanWW2photos 4d ago

Panzer Panthers being transported by railway

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r/GermanWW2photos 5d ago

SS Men of the SS-VT negotiating the surrender of the Clermont-Ferrand airbase along with the French officers. June 1940.

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r/GermanWW2photos 5d ago

Panzer A Panther and Tiger I #222 from 2.Kompanie EX s.Pz. Abt. 503 Tiger are on display at Strasbourg France in 1944 with kids and locals playing on the Panzers

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r/GermanWW2photos 5d ago

Beutepanzer / Captured Allied Tanks Captured T-34s, T-26s and M3 Stuart from the 98th Infantry Division. The beginning of 1943.

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r/GermanWW2photos 6d ago

Beutepanzer / Captured Allied Tanks German t-34 in winter camouflage

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