World War II

For serious and meaningful historical discussion of the Second World War. If you're a Nazi though, fuck off.

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Was the fall of France in 1940 inevitable?

Posted 5th Mar 2026u/Georgy_K_Zhukov

Looking for help translating

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/corydaskiier

SS-Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger.

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/Alarming_Rich763

USMC Photos from the Guam Campaign

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/CT2145Trapper

Old scrapbook of WW2 planes and paratroopers . Does anyone know more about these photos?

Posted 25th Apr 2026u/amoysupplier

Is it just me, or does every US soldier in this photo have two or more canteens? Well, I guess that's Philippine climate for you.

Posted 25th Apr 2026u/guy_who_eats_rice

Added two World War II books to my collection today.

Posted 25th Apr 2026u/KR1ST1N_EL1Z4B3TH

The Parade of the Vanquished; approximately 57,000 German prisoners of war, including 19 generals, were paraded through the streets of Moscow following their capture, July 17, 1944.

Posted 24th Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw

Help me to recognize my grandfather equipment

Posted 25th Apr 2026u/Ok_Adagio_1693

Mixed British Indian Army badges + WWI medal found in India — need help identifying

Posted 25th Apr 2026u/Negative_Tower3273

Tiger 131 83 years since capture

Posted 24th Apr 2026u/Annual_Stay

Why isn't Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk as well known as Goebbels or even Donitz despite the last head of government of Nazi Germany?

Posted 24th Apr 2026u/autist_throw

My Grandfather documented the war as an artist does, by drawing it. Part 1.

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/Ezada

After 7 years of having the memorabilia of my great grandfather stacked away in a suitcase, I am now finally able to display it!

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/nahoj420

My Grandpa's WW2 jackrt.

Posted 24th Apr 2026u/_welcomehome_

An aerial view of a POW camp in Germany filled with captured Germans. This camp alone held 160,000 German POWs. April 1945.

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw

Can anyone work out the unit he was in?

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/Nayten03

Eyewitness Auschwitz - Criminally underrated holocaust testimony

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/JunkFoodEnjoyer

A former concentration camp inmate drags a concentration camp guard by the hair while American troops look on at the newly liberated Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, April 1945.

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw

The first wave of the American invasion of Iwo Jima February 19th 1945

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/Embarrassed_Cry_7227

Why is this photo always described as depicting Simo Häyhä?

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/ArmedIdiot

German Newsweek No. 691- 1 Dec. 1943 (Battle of Leros, Combat Footage Italy/Eastern Front)

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/NorthCoastToast

Italian army Engineer great-grandfather (help me track his story!)

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/behindthecrookedfox

The contents of a WWII breakfast ration box, 1940s.

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw

The remains of the Third Reich in Ukraine: Himmler’s bunker in Huyva, Zhytomyr

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/Kitchen_Grade_8896

Historical Japanese Operational Map Of Luzon UPDATE 1

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/Right-Percentage3775

Charter of the Garrison Service of the Red Army (1941)

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/StanzaRareBooks

Holocaust museum photos

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/maybthiistiime

Two paintings from the War of Resistance Against Japan

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/stray009

Margraten Nederland

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/martijnxander

Forgotten Concrete Giants: Remnants of the Third Reich’s Panther-Wotan Line in Ukraine

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/Kitchen_Grade_8896

Identification of what part of the Canadian infantry my grandfather was apart of.

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/Ok-River-7138

WW2 family photo.

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/ScholarElectronic457

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