A place for historically-accurate content relating to the Second World War.
"I was cowardly." A German policeman explains why he shot Jews at Jozefow, 1942. His unit killed over 83,000 Polish Jews, which averages 166 per person.
Posted 12th Apr 2026u/HighCrimesandHistory
More from my grandfather's pictures. Apologies if there are duplicates.
Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Novel_Pin_6784
Allied aircraft strafing an Afrika Corps mechanized column, c.1942.
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/Beeninya
These are some photos that my cousin scanned. The pictures were from our grandfather, who was in France after the D Day landings.
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/Novel_Pin_6784
Front Pages (1944-45)
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/Fair-Huckleberry5800
USMC 37mm M3 anti-tank gun crew during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Help Identifying Photo
Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Specialist-Apple-854
How do you feel about Gunther Lütjens?
Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811
Marine rifleman tosses a phosphorus grenade at a sniper on Okinawa, April 1945
Posted 10th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
"The new Russia would become our India." That time when Hitler described how the Eastern Front was to become the new German colonial empire, 1941.
Posted 10th Apr 2026u/HighCrimesandHistory
Anti-lice equipment, Pljevlja (Montenegro) 1943.
Posted 10th Apr 2026u/Books_Of_Jeremiah
In April of 1945, a 14th Armored Division tank crashes the gate at the Stalag XIII-C POW camp in Hammelburg, Germany.
Posted 9th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
"I don't want to burn." Eyewitness account of Margaret Freyer, a civilian caught in the streets during the firebombing of Dresden, February 1945.
Posted 9th Apr 2026u/HighCrimesandHistory
British 8th Army taking Italian prisoners after the first battle of El Alamein
Posted 9th Apr 2026u/CuthbertAtTrafalgar
GIs with the 33rd Infantry Division take a break in the Caraballo Mountains, Philippines - April 1945.
Posted 8th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
10th May 1940, Belgian women give flowers to troops of the the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (BEF)
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/CuthbertAtTrafalgar
Two wounded soldiers from the Durham Light Infantry during the Mareth line battle in Tunisia, March 1943. The men are Pte Donnelly of Newcastle and Pte Mountford of Nuneaton
Two US Army M4 Sherman tanks destroyed by Japanese artillery - Bloody Ridge - Ie Shima April 1945
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/TK622
Found this in my late grandpas collection, can anyone help identify?
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/Aggravating-Gift7286
The Wehrmacht brought home it's Vernichtungskrieg.
Posted 6th Apr 2026u/Mig190
A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942
Posted 5th Apr 2026u/CuthbertAtTrafalgar
German troops outside of Sevastopol Ukraine 1941
Some of the ~235,000 German, Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian POWs, including 22 generals, start the march East following the complete surrender of the German 6th Army. Stalingrad, February 1943.
Posted 5th Apr 2026u/Beeninya
HMS Unison (P43) displaying their "Jolly Roger" flag at Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth, England, on October 10, 1943. Fresh from a successful 16 month deployment.
Company A 3180th signal service battalion Okinawa
Posted 5th Apr 2026u/DreamQuest2Kadath
Could anybody determine what this is?
Posted 4th Apr 2026u/Reasonable_Mall_9009
In April of 1945, paratrooper Harry Lorenzo of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion clutches his Thompson submachine gun and his puppy “Kaput” near Katharinenberg, Germany.
Posted 3rd Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Lt. Cmdr. Gerald R. Pearson displaying the “spoils of war” after the Battle of Iwo Jima, March 1945.
Posted 2nd Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
My great-grandparents were part of the Dutch resistance during WWII - I just found this letter from 1945
Posted 2nd Apr 2026u/Equivalent_Algae6540
M4A3 75mm Sherman knocked out by a German 88 near Irsch, Germany, February, 1945.
Posted 1st Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
This day in 1945: Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division celebrate surprise L-rations just west of Wurtzburg, Germany, amid the Allied push into Bavaria.
My Grandfather’s Bombing Mission this day 82 years ago
Posted 1st Apr 2026u/USA-MH60S-PILOT
Receiving the flowers was Major General Sydir Kovpak, famous partisan commander in Ukraine who directed guerrilla warfare against the German rear.
Posted 1st Apr 2026u/Charming_Barnthroawe
GIs examine multiple frontal penetrating hits on a 14th Armored Division M4A3(76)W Sherman tank knocked out near Barr in Alsace in late 1944
Posted 31st Mar 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Need help identifying this knife and patch.
Posted 31st Mar 2026u/Ed-Edd-NdShreddy
American POWs of 106th Division following the surrender of the Schnee Eifel pocket, the most extensive defeat suffered by American forces in the European Theatre. 21 December 1944.
Posted 30th Mar 2026u/Beeninya
Lockheed F-5E-2-LO "Sky Queen Miss Deane" of the 33rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in Belgium, 1945.
Posted 30th Mar 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
The German army’s culture in the East
Posted 30th Mar 2026u/Mig190
Original Printing of Gen. Andrey Vlasov’s Prague Manifesto & other Rare Documents Found at Estate Sale MORE PHOTOS
Posted 30th Mar 2026u/Consistent_Second746
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