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This Sd.Kfz.251/21 Ausf.D Fliegerabwehrkanone...
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.
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SS-Obersturmführer Johann Sailer, commander of...
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...
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SS-Sturmmann Ewald Krassmann, who served with SS-Panzer...
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...
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A young SS-Unterscharführer from SS-Panzer Regiment 9, wearing...
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...
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Leader of the lone assault gun attack against a Soviet antitank...
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.”
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SS-Untersturmführer Leon Gillis, Walloon Brigade, shown here...
SS-Untersturmführer Leon Gillis, Walloon Brigade, shown here carrying an Sturmgewehr 44 in a trench west of Beloserye, early February 1944.
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SS-Sturmbannführer and Knight’s Cross with Oakleaves...
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...
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SS-Untersharführer Adolf Salie, SS-Nachrichten-Abteilung 5. He...
SS-Untersharführer Adolf Salie, SS-Nachrichten-Abteilung 5. He took some of the most dramatic photographs to survive the Cherkassy Pocket.
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Obersturmführer Günther Jahnke, a 5.SS-Division...
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.
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strangewood: “It is the unique power of cinema to allow a great...
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...
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Exquisite Bodies
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...
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Catacombes of the Capuchin Monks of Palermo
historicalfahderah: Catacombes of the Capuchin Monks of Palermo From: http://motomom.tripod.com/index-3.html
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“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...
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Blood Axis and In Gowan Ring-I Lay Stretched On Your Grave. I Am...
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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