German Portraits / Photos from the Second World War

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Panzerkampfwagen B2 740(f) Flammpanzer belonging to Pz.Abt. 102 during Operation Barbarossa in 1941

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/waffen123

Backblast area clear? (Warsaw, August 1944)

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/iloverheaug

A German Red Cross nurse helps wounded soldiers light cigarettes. Eastern Front 1941

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/defender838383

SS-Untersturmführer Walter Malchow. Commander the 6th Company of the 1st SS Panzer Regiment.

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/Strict_Key3318

Some photos of my friend Eckhardt who passed 1 year ago during ww2.

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/Such_Ideal_1422

Luftwaffe Helferinnen RAD maintenance work in tarpaulin camouflaged FW190D-9, march 1945.

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/defender838383

Soldier from the German Africa Corps standing guard by the Arch of the Philaeni, Italian Libya, 1941

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Pilots of the 7th Staffel of the JG 52 squadron, Feldwebel Hans Dammers, Oberfeldwebel Edmund Rossmann and Alfred Grislavski, as well as Lieutenant Erich Hartmann, are photographed at the Soldatskaya airfield. Kabardino-Balkaria, autumn 1942.

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/defender838383

German sledge convoy, presumably with munitions and other supplies, heading towards the front; Eastern Front, March 1942

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Members of the Panzertruppen gathered by a grand piano out in the field, Eastern Front, July 1942

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Wehrmacht soldier wearing goggles and cloth as protection against sand and dust storms, North Africa, February 1942

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

German soldier posing with a captured Red Army banner; south of Lake Ladoga, Russia, August 1943

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Wehrmacht lance corporal and first-corporal next to a Krupp truck (Krupp LD 6.5 N 242) of the 3rd Company of the 616th Transport Regiment. The first-corporal holds a traffic baton.

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/defender838383

A German motorbike-powered narrow gauge trolley, Eastern Front, June 1944

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Wehrmacht soldier smoking a pipe while his horse feeds, Eastern Front, November 1941

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Göring with his pet Lion Caesar, 1935.

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/Strict_Key3318

Wehrmacht troops moving through the burning city of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, December 1943

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Panzer III Ausf.M/N with removed turret - these vehicles were available for sPzAbt 505. Photo is captioned "neue Munition, bei Weliki Leki, Russland, Oktober 1943".

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/waffen123

German soldiers observe through a telescope in a Soviet village

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/defender838383

Staged photograph of German soldiers frying eggs on their tank's heated armor plate, North Africa, October 1941

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

"North Africa - Portrait of a German soldier", photo by war correspondent Bruno-Heinz von Kayser (1904-1982), depicting a member of the Luftwaffe in a protective headscarf; North Africa, March 1942

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Wehrmacht mountain troopers passing time with some ice stock shooting, also known as Bavarian curling; somewhere on the Eastern Front, January 1942

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Famous songs in the Wochenschau: It's a Long Way to Tipperary (Norway, April 1940)

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/iloverheaug

Wehrmacht mountain infantry on the Dzerzhinsky Square (later renamed to the German Army Square, then to the Leibstandarte SS Square, today Freedom Square) in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 1941

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

German soldiers assembled in Tripoli, Libya, March 1941

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Luftwaffe soldier among the Bedouin in Tunisia, December 1942

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Boys from the younger age group of the Hitler Youth (Deutsches Jungvolk) work clearing rubble near the façade of a destroyed building. 1943-1945.

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/defender838383

A Wehrmacht food carrier on the front, location unknown, 1943

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Wehrmacht anti-aircraft emplacement on the Atlantic Wall, February 1944

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Grabstein von Joachim Adam Otto von Tresckow.

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/OldSpice667

German prisoners of war marching across a bridge after being captured by the Soviets, Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Apr 1945

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/waffen123

Captured Belgian soldiers talking with a Wehrmacht officer, Belgium, May 1940

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Wehrmacht engineers felling a tree with a petrol-powered, rotating chainsaw; location unknown, October 1940

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Allied aircraft strafing an Afrika Corps mechanized column, c.1942.

Posted 11th Apr 2026u/Beeninya

British prisoners of war, Saint-Nazaire, France, 28 Mar 1942

Posted 11th Apr 2026u/waffen123

Improvised Panzerzugs of the interwar Württemberg Traffic Guards. Oscar Dirlwanger, the most notorious of SS criminals, got his start in an armoured train with these guys as commander of the 1st train they set up, before the Versailles arms prohibitions went into full effect.

Posted 11th Apr 2026u/IronWarhorses

Training of German Marksmen and Snipers (Deutsches Reich, 1944)

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/iloverheaug

9 captured soviet D-2 armoured railcars were refitted and reused. 2 were added to Panzerzug 6, the other as Panzertreibewagon's Nr 17-23

Posted 11th Apr 2026u/IronWarhorses

Wehrmacht soldier hoisting a pennant celebrating the gunned down enemy aircraft at a Kriegsmarine coastal battery in occupied northern France, December 1941

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Hitler speaking during the Heroes' Memorial Day (Heldengedenktag), a ceremony commemorating and venerating the German soldiers fallen in World War I; Zeughaus in Berlin, 15th of March, 1942

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Hi! Can anyone identify which unit these soldiers are from? Reportedly they are SS soldiers that fought near Stalingrad.

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Erich171

German soldier keeping watch near the anti-tank fortifications of the Atlantic Wall, occupied France, 1943

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Does someone know this man? Its signed but Unreadable

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Such_Ideal_1422

Wehrmacht Soldier personal album - Moving East Part II

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/Mets88

Wehrmacht soldiers loading a light mortar during the French campaign, 1940

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Sisters from the German Red Cross with Wehrmacht soldiers at the train station in Hasselt, occupied Belgium, February 1941

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Wehrmacht soldiers, with protection nets against mosquitoes, photographed near Babruysk, Belarus, June 1941

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

A Wehrmacht soldier petting a goat in the Kharkiv Zoo, occupied Ukraine, December 1941

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/Provinz_Wartheland

Panzerkampfwagen Ausf. B from the 506th German Heavy Tank Battalion has been destroyed by an attack from a Sherman armored vehicle. It attacked its weakest part, the rear of the vehicle. April 12, 1945. Dornholthausen. Germany.

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/waffen123

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/ItsNotSuperJuan

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