Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Hübner – one of the youngest recipients of the Iron Cross, 1945
As casualties mounted during the Second World War, Germany was forced to call up ever younger conscripts to fill the ranks of the Wehrmacht. So dire was the situation at the end of 1944, that boys born...
View ArticleA race education class at a school for German girls, 1943
The three groups displayed on the poster are, from top to bottom, “ostbaltische Rasse” (“East Baltic race”), “ostische Rasse” (“Alpine race”), and “dinarische Rasse” (“Dinaric race”). All these three...
View ArticleThe German Occupation of Kharkov in color, 1941
These photos taken by Johannes Hähle depict the civilian population of Kharkov under occupation by Nazi Germany (all pictures are taken on October and November 1941). As a member of Construction...
View ArticleGerman invasion of Western Europe and the Fall of France, 1940
In the spring of 1940, an emboldened Germany asserted itself as a modern conqueror of nations, successfully invading and occupying six countries in fewer than 100 days. On April 9, 1940, Germany...
View ArticleOperation Barbarossa in rare pictures, 1941
Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the German codename for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which commenced on June 22, 1941. It was to be the turning...
View ArticleThe bloody battles of The Eastern Front, 1942-1943
The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterized by unprecedented ferocity, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss...
View ArticleThe last days of the Nazi Germany, 1945
By the beginning of 1945 the war which Germany had unleashed throughout the world had come back to consume it. In sharp contrast with what had occurred in 1918 in 1945 Germany fought, literally, to the...
View ArticleGermans at Stalingrad, 1942-1943
In June 1941 Hitler ordered a surprise invasion of the Soviet Union, and for most of the next year the German army routed the Soviet troops, capturing thousands of square kilometers of their country in...
View ArticleThe Invasion of Poland in pictures, 1939
On September 1, 1939, the world was shocked as Nazi troops invaded Poland. Tensions soared in Europe, and world leaders recognized that this invasion could be the final straw that would lead to war....
View ArticleDeportation of the Roma people from Nazi Germany, 1938-1940
For centuries, Romani tribes had been subject to antiziganist persecution and humiliation in Europe. They were stigmatized as habitual criminals, social misfits, and vagabonds. After Hitler’s rise to...
View ArticleThe Eva Braun story: Life and Death with the Führer, 1912-1945
Decades after her death, Eva Braun, the long-time mistress of Adolf Hitler, remains a mysterious and notorious figure. This is the photographic life story of a woman who met Hitler as a teenager and,...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Wall: Vintage Photos of the The Nazi Germany Defenses at...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel famously declared and predicted: “The war will be won or lost on the beaches. We’ll have only one chance to stop the enemy and that’s while he’s in the water… struggling to...
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