FRONTLINE PHOTOS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS

[Klaus_Arzt]

Hi guys,
Here is the compilation of some photos that I really like. Hope you’ll like’em too.

taking a five between the attacks

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Nice snapshot. he must be shouting: advaaaance!

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This is one of the most famous pics. One of my favourite

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Still 4 meters are missing up to the bank

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good foreshorteming

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Regards

[Klaus_Arzt]

Here comes more...

stand by

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let's go little ones, move on!

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help me kameraden

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alright, thanks man

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pay attention to PPSh-41

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I hope you liked these pics, cheers

[tigre]

Thanks for posting those pics chap. Cheers. Raúl M .

[Klaus_Arzt]

You are welcome! I was just wondering maybe someone could add some photos too. We all could post here some pics where not only fighting, shooting are depicted but also pics in which we could see german lads at rest, playing cards, chatting so on and so forth on the front.

I mean, their everyday routine (besides fighting of course). Through these photos we could see and contemplate a true nature of war. Because the war isn’t just battles, aiming and shooting that’s also a survival, the way soldiers cope with constant problems like hunger, cold and heat, fatigue, fear, countless marches, deliveries of food and ammo, construction works and as a consequence physical and mental exhaustion. And all that was depicted by war correspondents.
Those pics would be appreciated. Thanks.

[tigre]

Hello Klaus ; here goes a pair of them....................

Picked up from an eBay auction (expired by now). Cheers. Raúl M .

[Klaus_Arzt]

Hello Raúl M! Thank you for your pics, they're great.(the second one is rather sad i have to admit - but that was a gruesome reality of those days). I was wondering do you have any pics conserning the last german offensive on the eastern front - so called operation Spring Awakening?

[HeinrichFrey]

Hello Klaus,
From "Frühlingserwachen" You`ll get no German pictures as I fear.

[tigre]

Nope ; I think Matthias has right. Cheers. Raúl M .

[HeinrichFrey]

Yes Raul!
I`ve got 4 relatives there and 2 came back. . They were with the 12th SS Panzer.

[HeinrichFrey]

I find it very interesting, to see the germans prefering the Russian submachineguns. My Grandpa told me about it. He took one in Stalingrad fighting.

[Franz Repper]

Ok here are some those with origanal Press captions I will put the caption as well

Nicht in Afrika, sondern an der Ostfront!
Ein Dromedar hat schon mit unseren Panzertruppen Freundschaft geschlossen.
PK Kocherber 18.8.1942

Vormarsch durch den Frühjahrsschlamm.Kurze Marschpause in einem Sowjetdorf.
Für die SS-Panzergrenadiere deren Mannschaftswagen Raupenket ten besitzen, ist der Schlamm kein unüberwindbares Hindernis.
SS-PK Schaer
The above from my Reenactment group web site http://www.gaissmair.net/ Below are my own

Heer mounted unit This Photo is in a GJ photo album I have that is From Narvik Operation Bueffel

Trondheim

A bit of RnR in the Fjords
Something for Tom H and Me SS Nord Note the First Guy still has his TK death Head on his collar


SS Gebirgsjäger from "Nord", somewhere in Finland, most probably 1941. Note Totenkopf collar patches!

[Klaus_Arzt]

Thanks a lot for the info guys and special thanks to you Franz Repper for the pics! They are awesome. Especially the one with the camel.

About "Frühlingserwachen" - it's sad there aren't any pics. Because i've been studing this operation recently (and trying to get some photographs as well not only concerning this operation but also about the last months of the war)but if no photos hadn't been taken at all - we could do nothing about it. In any case thanks for the replay.
By the by Heinrich Frey i've got some photos with germans armed with russian smallarms. Here are some of them. I'm sure this gonna be interesting for everyone.

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Cheers, Klaus

[ghp95134]

So .... what's he doing with an AK-47?




JUST JOKING !!!!!! (I DO know the story.)

--Guy (a little levity never killed anyone) Power

[HeinrichFrey]

Hello Klaus,
the officer on ppshkampf.jpg above fought in Stalingrad. Maybe he had been with the 389. Inf.-Div.. Do You know more about the photo?

[Annelie]

http://www.ww2incolor.com/german/?set_albumName=germans

There are quite a few to chose from