Soldaten im Einsatz

This Sd.Kfz.251/21 Ausf.D Fliegerabwehrkanone Schützenpanzerwagen
(2cm MG151 ‘Drilling’) and it’s single dead crewman are a grim and chilling reminder of what war is like.

I’m Sick Of You-The Stooges

SS-Obersturmführer Johann Sailer, commander of 3.Kompanie/SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 9.
This lieutenant of the ‘Hohenstaufen’ divisional tank-destroyer battalion was awarded the Knight’s Cross on 4 May 1945 for his performance during the defensive battles of the closing days of the war. Note that neither his collar nor his collar patches are edged in the regulation officer’s silver cord.

SS-Sturmmann Ewald Krassmann, who served with SS-Panzer Aufklärungs Abteilung 9. during the campaign in Normandy.
Although not apparent in a black-and-white photo, the piping to the shoulder straps of his black Panzer jacket is in the cavalry golden-yellow proper for
this armoured reconnaissance unit, rather than the normal pink for tank personnel.

A young SS-Unterscharführer from SS-Panzer Regiment 9, wearing the regulation black vehicle uniform for members of tank units.
It is interesting that even at this late stage of the war this sergeant’s jacket has pink piping to both the collar and the collar patches - the latter a strictly non-regulation feature, and usually associated only with the tank crews of the ‘Wiking’ Division’s SS-Pz Regt 5.

Leader of the lone assault gun attack against a Soviet antitank company in Olshana, SS-Obersturmführer Willy Hein, l.Abt./SS-Pz.Rgt.5 “Wiking.”

SS-Untersturmführer Leon Gillis, Walloon Brigade, shown here carrying an Sturmgewehr 44 in a trench west of Beloserye, early February 1944.

SS-Sturmbannführer and Knight’s Cross with Oakleaves wearer Hans Dorr, commander of 1. Battalion/SS Panzergrenadier Regiment “Germania”, at his battalion command post near Gorodishche.
He is wearing the standard SS-issue fur-lined anorak with a rabbit-fur covered
winter cap. His battalion led the attack that seized the crucial town ofShanderovka several days after this picture was taken.

SS-Untersharführer Adolf Salie, SS-Nachrichten-Abteilung 5.
He took some of the most dramatic photographs to survive the Cherkassy Pocket.

Obersturmführer Günther Jahnke, a 5.SS-Division “Wiking” general staff officer in training, who witnessed many of the key events which took place during the Battle of Cherkassy.

strangewood:

“It is the unique power of cinema to allow a great many people to dream the same dream together and to present illusions to us as if it were strict reality. It is, in short, an admirable vehicle for poetry. My film is nothing other than a striptease act, gradually peeling away my body to reveal my naked soul.”

Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 –- October 11, 1963)

historicalfahderah:

Read: “Graphic and Ghoulish: The Wellcome’s Cadaverous Exquisite Bodies Show” and see the accompanying photo gallery featured in The Guardian. Click here to see the article, here to see the photo gallery, and here to find out more about the exhibition.

historicalfahderah:

Catacombes of the Capuchin Monks of Palermo

From: http://motomom.tripod.com/index-3.html

“The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn’t seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.”

- Johnny Cash on his experience playing USO shows in Vietnam with June in ‘69, Cash: The Autobiography (via demons)

Blood Axis and In Gowan Ring-I Lay Stretched On Your Grave.

I Am Stretched on Your Grave” is a translation of an anonymous 17th-century Irish poem titled “Táim sínte ar do thuama”.

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I’m Sick Of You-The Stooges

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SS-Sturmmann Ewald Krassmann, who served with SS-Panzer...

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Leader of the lone assault gun attack against a Soviet antitank...

SS-Untersturmführer Leon Gillis, Walloon Brigade, shown here...

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SS-Untersharführer Adolf Salie, SS-Nachrichten-Abteilung 5. He...

Obersturmführer Günther Jahnke, a 5.SS-Division...

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strangewood: “It is the unique power of cinema to allow a great...

Exquisite Bodies

Catacombes of the Capuchin Monks of Palermo

Catacombes of the Capuchin Monks of Palermo

"The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn’t seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big..."

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Blood Axis and In Gowan Ring-I Lay Stretched On Your Grave. I Am...