Nice selection of photos. Stalingrad battle. real photos
An ideal German family from the Third Reich. The father serves in the police, one son (left) is in the army, the second is the leader of the Hitler Youth.
Mom accompanies her son to the front.
Inspection of personnel in German.
German soldiers on medical examination.
German soldiers are fooling around. The inscription on the back of a soldier - " Western Front 1939".
The first day of the war in Przemysl (today - the Polish city of Przemysl) and the first dead invaders on Soviet soil (soldiers of the 101st light infantry division). The city was occupied by German troops on June 22, but the next morning it was liberated by the Red Army and border guards and held until June 27.
A column of German troops. Ukraine, July 1941.
German soldiers with machine gun MG 08/15.
German soldiers load machine-gun belt.
German soldier with his daughter (presumably).
German machine gunner with an MG-34 machine gun, the second crew number is visible from behind with additional zinc cartridges.
German soldier in a captured village in the USSR. One shoulder strap is missing, most likely lost.
German soldier in a doghouse.
Officers of the German army and navy go to the positions of the broken Soviet armored turret battery No. 35 (BB-35) of Sevastopol.
From the report of the Political Directorate of the Black Sea Fleet dated July 22, 1942 on the results of the June battles and the evacuation of Sevastopol:
“During the most tense period, when the enemy broke through in large groups of tanks from the area of the Kalfa farm and Nikolaevka, most of the coastal defense facilities were defeated, the main blow to the breaking through group was delivered by battery No. 35, which, starting from June 30, 1942, was the last most stable center of resistance approaches to the Chersonese peninsula. The personnel of the approaching units, under cover of battery fire, have been repelling numerous enemy attacks for the past three days, ensuring evacuation by sea and air. Having shot completely the ammunition and firing up to 50 practical projectiles, the 35th battery was blown up on the night of July 1-2.
Rewarding German soldiers with the Iron Crosses.
The German pilot explains to his comrades how to attack the American bomber Liberator B-24 on the Messerschmitt Bf.109. Layout B-24 - with designated sectors of fire onboard machine guns
Soviet prisoner of war. For some reason, the Germans are taking it with them in the back of a truck.
Germans with a field kitchen.
The Germans are slaughtering a pig.
German invaders are photographed with local residents somewhere in the USSR.
Occupied territory of the USSR. In the upper right corner of the photo, the newspaper Izvestia is visible on the wall.
German officers at dinner. Somewhere in the occupied territory of the USSR.
A German patrol leads captured disguised Soviet soldiers. Kyiv, September 1941
German machine gunner with MG-42 light machine gun.
The Germans put into the truck a cow taken from the inhabitants of an occupied village somewhere in the USSR.
Rudolf Witzig - the legend of the German Airborne Forces
The hero of the assault on the Belgian fort Eben-Emal, which was considered impregnable. The fort with a garrison of 1200 people and numerous artillery was suddenly attacked on May 10, 1940 (German landing gliders landed right on the territory of the fort), blocked and capitulated within a day.
German losses - 6 killed and 15 wounded out of 85 soldiers and officers who participated in the operation.
A German soldier next to the bodies of the fallen Red Army soldiers.
Employees of the Luftwaffe drink in the hangar.
Two very different German soldiers.
Group photo of German submariners on the deck of a German submarine.
A column of German StuG III assault guns on the march to the Caucasus.
German paratrooper.
Clown photo from the German barracks.
German sergeant major with MP-38 submachine gun.
Soviet children clean boots for German soldiers. Bialystok, November 1942
Wehrmacht sergeant who fought in the USSR. On the sleeve - the sign "Crimean Shield" for participation in the Crimean campaign of 1941-1942. Also visible on the chest is the DRA sports badge for physical fitness (left) and the General Assault badge (center) for personal participation in three attacks or counterattacks within three days, or bravery or injury in three attacks or counterattacks.
The picture, as if specially taken to refute the stereotypes common in our country about powerful weapons and the provision of German troops that invaded the USSR in 1941: all of them are on motorcycles, armed with machine guns against foot soldiers with rifles. Here is everything German soldiers armed with rifles, walking, a few people in the background are riding. The picture is complemented by the German light tank PzKpfw I, one of the weakest tanks of that time (bulletproof armor, armament with 2 MG-13 machine guns of 7.92 mm caliber).
Another clown photo from the German barracks.
German soldiers deliver food in flooded trenches, October 1943, Velikiye Luki region.
A captured Red Army soldier showing the Germans commissars and communists.
A well-known photograph, the controversy around which has not subsided to this day. Early July 1943. A Waffen SS soldier (SS troops) approached the Soviet soldiers, one of whom was mortally wounded. First aid was provided to the wounded, his arms and legs were injured. The next moment, an SS soldier will bend over the mortally wounded man and give him water from his flask:
As is often the case, there are two versions of these events. Version 1: the events in the photo are true and show the last sign of respect given to a dying but not defeated enemy. Version No. 2 - staged photos (perhaps these are shots of "Deutsche Wohenschau"), aiming to show the humanity of the German military even in relation to "subhumans".
SS soldiers pose with a captured Red Army soldier in a trench. In the hands of the German on the right is a captured Soviet PPSh assault rifle.
Massacre of a captured Red Army soldier.
The Germans glue a paper model of the Soviet KV-1 tank. On the table, the KV-2 model is waiting in the wings. In the initial period of the war, German industry produced similar visual aids - "field tank guides". During the assembly process, soldiers memorize character traits and the silhouette of enemy vehicles. The same practice was used by the British during the Battle of Britain - models of German aircraft in 1/72 scale were issued to farmers living on the English Channel and having a home phone.
German machine gunner at dinner. The MG-42 machine gun and the M-24 grenade at hand allow you to dine in peace.
German soldiers finish off a wounded Soviet sniper.
German pilots drink in a train compartment.
German soldiers are studying the Soviet light machine gun DP-27 (Dyagtereva infantry model 1927). Captured copies of the DP-27 in the Wehrmacht were used under the designation "7,62mm leichte Maschinengewehr 120 (r)".
German crew inside an assault gun.
German tank PzKpfw III and its crew.
Hauptmann Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Stuka pilot, conducts an instructor-methodical lesson on practicing the attack of Soviet tanks with the help of 37-mm cannons of the Yu-87 dive bomber. 1943, on the eve of the Battle of Kursk.
"Miscellaneous" employees of the German air force.
The photo shows the tragic moment when the Germans captured the crew of the Soviet medium tank T-34/76. Soviet tankers rammed the German self-propelled guns Sturmgeschutz III (StuG III), as a result of a frontal impact, both vehicles were disabled
Panzergrenadiers of the SS division "Viking". Battle for Kovel (Volyn region, Ukraine). The soldier in the foreground carries an MG-42 light machine gun on his shoulder, and the turned away soldier on the left has the latest StG-44 assault rifle (automatic) at that time. In the background is the PzKpfw V Panther tank.
Panzergrenadier of the 12th SS division "Hitler Youth". The photo was taken in August 1944, before the battle for Caen.
German soldiers in a swamp near the village of Myasnoy Bor, Novgorod Region.
Interestingly, the Aryans are wearing Russian hats with earflaps.
A German machine gunner in all the splendor of Wehrmacht logistics: great uniform, shiny helmet, machine gun MG-34 on the machine and with an optical (!) sight. The photograph is staged, but gives some idea of the equipment of the German troops.
Private of the SS Police Division
Soldiers of the regiment "Germany" of the German 5th SS Panzer Division "Viking".
A private German tanker uses a strong drink.
Matthias Hetzenauer (1924-2004) with a Kar98k rifle with a 6x optical sight.
Sniper of the 3rd Mountain Division (Geb.Jg. 144/3. Gebirgs-Devision). From July 1944 to May 1945 - 345 confirmed killed soldiers of the Red Army. Awarded the Knight's Cross with Swords and Oak Leaves. One of the most productive snipers in Germany.
Jew surrounded by German soldiers.
German soldiers with their main trophy. And also a little soldier's life, caught in the frame.
A German tanker examines a pothole from a shell hit on the armor of a Tiger tank. Kursk Bulge, August 1943
A German soldier depicts a woman in the circle of his comrades.
Members of the German submarine crew pose with a recently killed polar bear.
A captured Red Army soldier shows the Germans on the map the information they are interested in.
Helmsman in the conning tower of a German submarine. The photo was most likely taken not on a military campaign or at its very beginning, since the sailor's face is clean-shaven, and in the German submarine fleet there was a tradition not to shave until returning from a campaign to the base. In addition, it is interesting that the sailor keeps his hand on the engine telegraph, which shows the position "Stop the car" and is clearly waiting for a command from the bridge.
Members of the Luftwaffe. The Germans, far from the Aryan ideal, also got into aviation and the navy.
A column of Soviet prisoners is being led to work. The German soldiers guarding them, in addition to rifles, are armed with sticks to drive the prisoners.
The Singing Squadron of the Luftwaffe.
A German officer with a little girl in a Ukrainian village.
German dog harness.
A German provides medical assistance to a Soviet prisoner.
A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian woman with a child.
A German provides medical assistance to a Soviet prisoner
Column of Soviet prisoners of war. The German escort urges the marchers on.
This is the first public execution in the occupied Soviet territories, on that day in Minsk 12 Soviet underground workers were hanged on the arch of a yeast factory, helping wounded Red Army soldiers to escape from captivity. In the photo - the moment of preparation for the hanging of Vladimir Shcherbatsevich. On the left is the hanged 17-year-old Maria Bruskina.
The execution was carried out by volunteers from the 2nd Battalion of the Police Auxiliary Service from Lithuania, commanded by Major Impulevičius.
German column of motorcyclists.
German soldiers test the strength of the gallows.
Dinner for German officers. Somewhere in the USSR.
Wehrmacht soldiers entertain their comrades
Officers of the German border police. The personnel are armed with German MP-28 submachine guns and a Czech ZB-26/30 machine gun.
German flamethrower.
German soldiers under shelling. Obviously, they already have losses - pay attention to the left side of the anti-tank ditch.
The captured German shows on the map the information of interest to the Soviet soldier.
A German soldier, having been wounded, continued to fight until he died from a grenade explosion.
Destroyed German tanks and the corpses of German soldiers who died near the village of Panskoye, Kursk Region, in a battle with the 2nd Guards Rifle Division (future 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division Tamanskaya).
Until December 10, 1941, the 127th division fought heavy defensive battles northeast of the city of Tim. They were especially strong near the village of Panskoye. Having exhausted the enemy, the division went on the offensive in order to destroy his Tim group.
With the beginning of the Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow, the division, as part of the Southwestern Front, captured Nikolaevka, Koshelevo, Manturovo on December 11, and then, together with the 45th and 62nd rifle divisions, launched an offensive against the city of Tim.
The enemy resisted especially stubbornly near the village of Karandakovo. In the conditions of a snowy winter with severe frosts, the guardsmen cut the road Tim - Shchigry, then battles began for Tim. The Nazis turned it into a strong defensive stronghold. They offered the most fierce resistance at the turn of the Falcon Plot, Rotten. The rapid advance of the 127th division to this line and its breakthrough put the Tim group in a difficult position. Fearing the environment, leaving the dead and military equipment, the Nazis hastily began to leave Tim.
German soldiers killed near Stalingrad. February 1943. The author's title of the photo is "Defeated to death".
The corpses of dead or frozen German soldiers near Stalingrad.
Frozen alive Germans.
German soldiers who died in Pillau (modern Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region).
The dead crew of the German tank PzKpfw IV.
The downed Junkers Ju-87 (Ju 87), which made an emergency landing, during which it capitulated. District of Leningrad.
The commander of the 56th such corps, General Helmut Weidling (left), who surrendered to the Soviet troops on May 2, together with the officers of his headquarters, was the last commander of the defense of Berlin personally appointed by Hitler, May 1945.
German pilots in Soviet captivity.
Shot down in Bobruisk offensive operation German medium tanks PzKpfw IV (T-IV).
The Bobruisk offensive operation of the Soviet troops took place on June 24-29, 1944. In its course, 6 German divisions were surrounded - 40 thousand soldiers and officers (according to other sources - 70 thousand). All of them were destroyed or captured. On June 29, Soviet troops took the city of Bobruisk, where the 338th German Infantry Division was defending.
A traitor executed by partisans.
German officer captured by scouts of the 49th Guards Rifle Division.
Dead German soldier.
Captured German sailors near Kerch. 1941
A German sergeant-major explains to soldiers how to use a faustpatron.
German prisoners of war on the streets of Berlin, captured by Soviet troops.
Shocked by the death of their submarine and being in the icy water of the Atlantic, German submariners on the deck of an American ship.
Dead German soldiers
Dr. Joseph Goebbels congratulates a young man from the "last" German draft on being awarded the Iron Cross in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery. March 1945.
Soldiers of the German "last draft" in the trenches. March 1945.
Burnt bodies of German soldiers dumped on the armor of the PzKpfw V "Panther" tank. Visible machine gun MG-42.
Boss general staff of the German ground forces Lieutenant General of the Infantry Hans Krebs at the headquarters of the Soviet troops in Berlin. On May 1, Krebs arrived at the location of the Soviet troops in order to draw the High Command into the negotiation process. On the same day, the general shot himself.
SS man taken prisoner by the Allies.
A German corporal executed by partisans.
Major General Friedrich Kussin (1895–1944) was the commandant of the Arnhem garrison. On September 17, 1944, between 4 and 5 pm, at the Osterbeik-Wolfheze crossroads, his gray Citroen car was fired upon by soldiers of the 5th platoon of the 3rd parachute battalion of the British. The general, his driver and orderly were killed on the spot.
Photographer Dennis Smith took this famous shot the day after Kussin's death. By this time, the body of the murdered man was abused, scalped. In addition, insignia, awards and almost all buttons were cut off from the general's uniform.
Representative of the Headquarters of the Supreme Command Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky and commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front I.D. Chernyakhovsky is being interrogated by the captured commander of the 53rd Army Corps, Infantry General Golvinzer, and the commander of the 206th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General Zitger. Vitebsk region, 1944.
Covered with earth during a close explosion of an aerial bomb, a German soldier is trying to get out. He is really alive - there is a newsreel with this episode, where you can see how a soldier rakes the ground with his hand
A column of prisoners on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground, "Germany's last hope" are boys from the Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm.
Graves of German soldiers somewhere in the USSR.
A column of German prisoners marching through Moscow. 57 thousand people in columns of 600 people, 20 people along the front.
The march of German prisoners took place on July 17, 1944, demonstrating to the Soviet people, as well as to the allies who did not believe in the successes of the Red Army, the results of the defeat of German troops in Belarus. About 57,000 German soldiers and officers (including 19 generals) marched along the Garden Ring and other streets of Moscow, mostly captured in Belarus by the troops of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts.
March of captured Germans in Moscow - in front of thousands of columns of soldiers and officers are a group of 19 German generals.
March of German prisoners in Moscow. In the photo, the Germans are walking along the Crimean bridge.
Sprinklers defiantly wash the streets of Moscow with soap, symbolically washing away dirt from the asphalt after the passage of tens of thousands of German prisoners of war across Moscow.
Information about the war can be obtained from many sources. Archives are declassified, scientific and historical research is published, memoirs are published by participants in the events, and finally, there is documentary newsreel. However, there is another valuable source of information. This is a front view photo. A photograph allows you to capture the feelings and emotions of a soldier in combat everyday life. Photography, like nothing else, is capable of reflecting all the horror, senselessness and tragedy of war. Sometimes a front photo says more than archival documents.
Below are front-line photographs of soldiers and officers of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht, who participated in the Battle of Stalingrad.
ON THE APPROACHES TO STALINGRAD
1) Nothing portends trouble. Crossing of the 3rd Motorized Division across the Don. While the offensive is developing successfully, July-August 1942. 
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4) Halt. August 1942. 
BATTLE IN THE CITY
5) The German infantry captured the Krasny Oktyabr plant in Stalingrad. 
6) German infantry is preparing to attack 
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8) Mortar crew at the wrecked T-34 tank. 
9) Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler gives the order to non-commissioned officers of the 305th division. A captured Soviet PPSh is visible at the one standing on the left. Hauptmann will be taken prisoner in February 1943 and will die in a POW camp in Beketovka. 
10) Friedrich Winkler. A typical image of an officer - the commander of assault infantry groups. Usually, Wehrmacht officers liked to take a pretentious staged photo against the background of damaged Soviet equipment. Here the situation is different: a haggard, unshaven face, a tired look, concentration and maximum attention. 
11) Ober-lieutenant with PPSh. Often there are photos when soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht use captured PPSh, which have proven themselves well in close combat in the city. 
12) Machine-gun crew changes position. 
13) A German infantryman sets up a flag on one of the buildings in Stalingrad. So far so good... 
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15) In rare moments of calm. 
16) Halt near the bakery, September 1942 
17) Street fight. 
18) The officer gives commands to the non-commissioned officers (judging by the patch on the far right and the binoculars on everyone else). The most concentrated faces. A typical front-line photo, there is a tense situation before the battle. 
19) Infantry at the destroyed factory "Barricades" 
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21) Wounded before being sent from Stalingrad. 
22) Artillery crew. 
DEFEAT
23) Padded german tank Pz.Kpfw. III and the dead crew. Note that next to the one lying on the lower right is a helmet (did you ride on the armor of a tank?). 
24) Killed Germans. In the background is a cemetery for Wehrmacht soldiers... 
25) A dead German against the background of a road sign. Significantly, the inscription Stalingrad is on the top plate... 
26) Dead Germans with signs of frostbite. 
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RESULTS
28) Captured Germans 
29) Instead of shoes, solid lumps ... 
30) A column of captured Germans, Italians, Romanians. 
31) Children are walking along with the prisoners in the column. Apparently, they are sent to the rear. The child has a bundle, presumably a supply of food. 
32) Significant photo... The column of Germans is walking quietly, not paying attention to their killed comrade. Apparently, the corpse had already been repeatedly driven by trucks. 
33) The captured commander of the 6th Army, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus. 
34) Legendary photo, one of the visual symbols of the victory of the Red Army. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (left), Chief of Staff of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Arthur Schmidt and Paulus' adjutant Wilhelm Adam in captivity. 
35) The highest command staff of the 6th Army, taken prisoner in Stalingrad. 
36) Cemetery of soldiers and officers. There were hundreds of such cemeteries in the Stalingrad region. 
37) The whole horror of the war is on the faces of prisoners of war, who miraculously did not die from the cold. 
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39) And finally, helmets... the 6th Army collapsed in Stalingrad. 
Incredible Facts
1. This demonstration was organized in connection with the celebration of Thanksgiving (Reichserntedankfest), which took place in the city of Buckeburg (Buckeberg) in 1934.
The number of participants was estimated at 700,000 people.
According to the stories of the Germans, who did not support the Nazis, even they were shocked by the scale of the event.
Until now, no one has seen anything like it.
Witnesses and participants of this event spoke about the feeling of national unity, emotional upsurge, incredible enthusiasm and the mood for change for the better.
When, after the demonstration, the Germans went to their tents, they still observed huge lightning in the sky.
2. Nazi storm troopers in Berlin sing near the entrance to a branch of the Woolworth Co. trading house. March 1, 1933. On this day, an action was organized to promote the boycott of the presence of Jews in Germany.
As soon as the Nazis came to power, they began to call on all German citizens to boycott Jewish organizations and enterprises. A long propaganda campaign began.
On April 1, Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered a speech in which he explained the need for a boycott as retribution for the "conspiracy against Germany by the Jews of the world" in the foreign media.
The store pictured was owned by the Woolworth Company, which later placed all Jewish employees out of work.
In this regard, the company received a special distinguishing mark "Adefa Zeichen", which meant belonging to a "purely Aryan business."
3. SS soldiers rest near the Olympic Stadium in Berlin in August 1936. These SS men served in the guard battalion, intended for the personal protection of Hitler and his escort during public events.
Some time later, the battalion was named the elite first division "Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"" (Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"). The unit was very large and accompanied Hitler wherever he went.
In wartime, the division took part in the fighting, showing itself as one of the best units in the entire war.
4. Parade of the Nazis in 1937 in the "Temple of Light". This structure consisted of 130 powerful searchlights, standing at a distance of 12 meters from each other and looking vertically upwards.
This was done in order to create light columns. The effect was incredible, both inside the columns and outside. The author of this creation was the architect Albert Speer (Albert Speer), it was his favorite masterpiece.
Experts still believe that this work is the best that Speer created, whom Hitler ordered to decorate the square in Nuremberg for parades.
5. Photo taken in 1938 in Berlin. On it, the soldiers of the Fuhrer's personal guard are undergoing drill training. This unit was in the barracks Lichterfelde (Lichterfelde).
The soldiers are armed with Mauser Kar98k carbines, and the lightning bolt emblems on the collars are the hallmark of the SS unit.
6. "Hall of the Bavarian generals" in Munich, 1982. The annual oath taking place in the SS troops. The text of the oath was as follows: "I swear to you, Adolf Hitler, to always be a brave and loyal warrior. I swear to you and the commanders who will be determined for me, to be betrayed until death. God help me."
7. The slogan of the SS was: "Our honor is our loyalty."
8. Greetings from the Fuhrer after the announcement of the successful annexation of Austria. The action takes place in 1938 in the Reichstag. The most important position of the Nazi ideology was the unification of all Germans who were born or live outside the borders of Germany in order to create an "all-German Reich".
From the moment Hitler came to power, the Führer announced that he would achieve the unification of Germany with Austria by any means.
9. Another photo from a similar event.
10. The frozen body of a Soviet soldier, which in 1939 was paraded by the Finns in order to intimidate the attacking Soviet troops. The Finns often used this method of psychological influence.
11. Soviet infantrymen frozen in a "fox hole" in Finland in 1940. The troops were forced to be transferred to the Finnish front from remote regions. Many soldiers were not at all prepared for an extremely harsh winter, having come to Finland from the southern regions.
Moreover, Finnish saboteurs regularly monitored the destruction of rear services. The Soviet troops experienced enormous difficulties due to the lack of food, winter uniforms and proper training.
Therefore, the soldiers covered their trenches with branches, and sprinkled them with snow on top. Such a shelter was called the "fox hole".
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12. Photo of Joseph Stalin from the police archive, taken during his arrest by the secret police in 1911. This was his second arrest.
The first time Okhrana became interested in him in 1908 because of his revolutionary activities. Then Stalin spent seven months in prison, and after that he was sent for two years to the city of Solvychegodsk, into exile.
However, the leader did not spend the whole time there, because after some time he fled, disguised as a woman and left for St. Petersburg.
13. This unofficial photo was taken by Vlasik, Stalin's personal bodyguard. In 1960, when this and some other works of Vlasik were first published, they all became a sensation. Then one Soviet journalist took them out of the Land of Soviets and sold them to foreign media.
14. Photo taken in 1940. On it, Stalin (right) and his double Felix Dadaev. For a very long time, unconfirmed rumors circulated in the USSR that the leader had a double that replaces him under certain circumstances.
After several decades, Felix finally decided to lower the veil of secrecy. Dadaev, a former dancer and juggler, was invited to the Kremlin, where he was offered a job as an understudy for Stalin.
For more than 50 years, Felix was silent because he was afraid of death for breaking the contract. But when he was 88 years old, in 2008, naturally with the permission of the authorities, Dadaev published a book in which he described in great detail how he happened to "play" the leader at various demonstrations, military parades and filming.
15. Even the closest associates and comrades of Stalin could not distinguish them.
16. Felix Dadaev in the dress uniform of a lieutenant general.
17. Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's eldest son, was captured by the Germans back in 1941. According to some historians, Jacob himself surrendered. There are still many conflicting rumors and legends about the life of the leader's son.
18. After receiving a package from Germany, Stalin learns about the capture of his son. Then Vasily, the youngest son of the leader, heard from his father: "What a fool, he did not even manage to shoot himself!" It was also said that Stalin reproached Yakov for surrendering to the enemy like a coward.
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19. Yakov wrote to his father: "Dear father! I am a prisoner. I feel good. Very soon I will find myself in a camp in Germany for prisoners of war for officers. They treat me well. Be healthy. Thank you for everything. Yasha."
Some time later, the Germans offered to exchange Yakov for Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who was taken prisoner near Stalingrad.
It was rumored that Stalin refused such an offer, saying that he would not change an entire field marshal for an ordinary soldier.
20. Not so long ago, some documents were declassified, according to which Yakov was shot dead by camp guards after he refused to obey the established order.
During the walk, Yakov received an order from the guards to return to the barracks, but refused, and the guards shot him in the head. When Stalin found out about this, he noticeably softened towards his son, considering such a death worthy.
21. A German soldier shares food with a Russian woman with a child, 1941. His gesture is in vain, because his role is to starve to death millions of such mothers. The photo was taken by the photographer of the 29th division of the Wehrmacht Georg Gundlach (George Gundlach).
This photograph, along with others, was included in the album collection "The Battle of Volkhov. Documentary Horror of 1941-1942".
22. The captured Russian scout laughs, looking into the eyes of his death. The photo was taken in November 1942 in Eastern Karelia. Before us are the last seconds of a person's life. He knows that he is about to die and laughs.
23. 1942 Surroundings of Ivangrad. German punitive units execute Kyiv Jews. In this photo, a German soldier shoots a woman with a child.
Rifles of other punishers are visible on the left side of the photo. This image was sent from the Eastern Front by post to Germany, but was intercepted in Poland by a member of the Warsaw resistance, which was collecting evidence of Nazi war crimes in the world.
Today this photo is kept in Warsaw, in the Historical Archive.
24. Rock of Gibraltar, 1942 Beams of searchlights that helped anti-aircraft gunners shoot at Nazi bombers.
25. 1942, a suburb of Stalingrad. Marching 6th Army. The soldiers do not even imagine that they are heading to a real hell. Most likely, they will not see the next spring.
One of the soldiers walks in his own sunglasses. This is an expensive thing that was issued exclusively to motorcyclists and soldiers of the African Corps.
26. Going to hell.
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27. Stalingrad, 1942 Preparations for the assault on the warehouse. German soldiers were forced to fight back every building, every street. It was then that they discovered that the tactical advantage that they had at their disposal in open spaces had sunk into oblivion due to the tightness of the city.
In street battles, tanks could not prove themselves. Oddly enough, but snipers in such conditions played a much more important role than tanks and artillery.
Severe weather conditions, the lack of an adequate level of supplies and uniforms, as well as the stubborn resistance of our soldiers led to the complete defeat of the Nazi army near Stalingrad.
28. 1942, Stalingrad. German soldier with the Silver Infantry Assault Badge. This insignia was awarded to soldiers of infantry units who took part in at least three assault operations.
For soldiers, such an award was no less honorable than the Iron Cross, which was established specifically for the Eastern Front.
29. A German soldier lights a cigarette from a flamethrower.
30. 1943 Warsaw. Bodies of murdered Jews and Ukrainian policemen. The photo was taken in the Warsaw ghetto during the suppression of the uprising. The original German caption for the photo reads: "Policemen also took part in the operation."
31. 1943 The end of the Stalingrad battle. A Soviet soldier with a PPSh-41 assault rifle escorts a German prisoner. Hitler's troops near Stalingrad, being surrounded, were completely defeated.
This battle is considered one of the most brutal and bloody in the history of all wars. It claimed the lives of more than two million people.
32. Summer 1944. Belarusian strategic offensive operation "Bagration". As a result of this operation, the German Army Group Center was completely defeated.
The front line of 1100 kilometers in two months of fighting was moved 600 kilometers to the west. German troops in this battle lost five times more people than the Soviets.
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33. July 17, 1944 Moscow streets. March of tens of thousands of captured Germans. Operation "Bagration" is considered the most successful of the entire period of the war.
The offensive on the Eastern Front began immediately after the Allied troops landed in Normandy. Little is known about this operation, especially in the West. Only a few historians are familiar with its details.
34. 1944 Camp Nonan-les-Pins (Nonant le Pin), German prisoners of war. In France, during the Falaise operation of the allied forces, more than thirty thousand German soldiers were captured.
Camp guards regularly rode along the barbed wire and fired into the air to pretend to stop another escape attempt. But there were no escape attempts, because even if they managed to get away from the guards, the execution would still not have been avoided.
35. 1944 France. 18-year-old member of the resistance movement Simone Seguin (Simone Segouin). Her military alias is Nicole Mine.
The photo was taken during the battle with the German troops. Appearance the girl in the center, of course, is surprising, but it was this picture that became a symbol of the participation of French women in the Resistance.
36. Simone in a color photograph, rare at the time.
37. Simone with her favorite weapon - a German machine gun.
38. March 9, 1945 The young fighter "Hitler Youth" received the "Iron Cross" award for his services during the defense of the city of Laubana in Silesia, he is congratulated by Goebbels.
Today Laubana is the Polish city of Luban.
39. 1945 Balcony of the Reichs Chancellery. Allied soldiers ridicule Hitler. Soldiers of the American, Soviet and British armies celebrate a joint victory.
The photo was taken on July 6, 1945, two months after the surrender. There was a month left before the bombing of Hiroshima.
40. Hitler speaking on the same balcony.
41. April 17, 1945 Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, liberation. British soldiers forced the guards - SS men to dig up the burial places of prisoners and load them into cars.
42. 1942 German soldiers are watching a film about concentration camps. The photo shows the reaction of prisoners of war to documentary materials from the death camps. This photo located in the United States Holocaust Museum.
43. The last rows of the cinema hall, the same scene.
Seventy-one years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad ended - the battle that finally changed the course of World War II. On February 2, 1943, surrounded by the banks of the Volga, German troops capitulated. I dedicate this photo album to this significant event.
A Soviet pilot stands near a personalized Yak-1B fighter, donated to the 291st Fighter Aviation Regiment by the collective farmers of the Saratov Region. The inscription on the fuselage of the fighter: “To the unit of the Hero of the Soviet Union Shishkin V.I. from the collective farm Signal of the Revolution of the Voroshilovsky district of the Saratov region. Winter 1942 - 1943
A Soviet pilot stands near a personalized Yak-1B fighter, donated to the 291st Fighter Aviation Regiment by the collective farmers of the Saratov Region.
A Soviet soldier demonstrates to his comrades German sentry boats, captured among other German property near Stalingrad. 1943
German 75 mm gun PaK 40 on the outskirts of a village near Stalingrad.
A dog sits in the snow against the backdrop of a column of Italian troops retreating from Stalingrad. December 1942
Soviet soldiers walk past the corpses of German soldiers in Stalingrad. 1943
Soviet soldiers listen to the accordion player near Stalingrad. 1943
Red Army soldiers go on the attack on the enemy near Stalingrad. 1942
Soviet infantry attacks the enemy near Stalingrad. 1943
Soviet field hospital near Stalingrad. 1942
A medical instructor bandages the head of a wounded soldier before sending him to the rear hospital on a dog sled. Stalingrad region. 1943
A captured German soldier in ersatz boots in a field near Stalingrad. 1943
Soviet soldiers in battle in the destroyed workshop of the Red October plant in Stalingrad. January 1943
Infantrymen of the 4th Romanian Army on vacation at the StuG III Ausf. F on the road near Stalingrad. November-December 1942
The bodies of German soldiers on the road southwest of Stalingrad near an abandoned Renault AHS truck. February-April 1943
Captured German soldiers in the destroyed Stalingrad. 1943
Romanian soldiers near a 7.92 mm ZB-30 machine gun in a trench near Stalingrad.
An infantryman takes aim from a submachine gun, lying on the armor of a Soviet American-made tank M3 "Stuart" with the proper name "Suvorov". Don front. Stalingrad region. November 1942
The commander of the XIth Army Corps of the Wehrmacht, Colonel General Karl Strecker (Karl Strecker, 1884-1973, standing with his back in the center left) surrenders to the representatives of the Soviet command in Stalingrad. 02/02/1943
A group of German infantrymen during an attack near Stalingrad. 1942
Civilians on the construction of anti-tank ditches. Stalingrad. 1942
One of the units of the Red Army in the area of Stalingrad. 1942
At the crossing of the Volga to Stalingrad. 1942
Refugees from Stalingrad during a halt. September 1942
Guardsmen of the reconnaissance company of Lieutenant Levchenko during reconnaissance on the outskirts of Stalingrad. 1942
The soldiers take their starting positions. Stalingrad front. 1942
Evacuation of the plant across the Volga. Stalingrad. 1942
Burning Stalingrad. Anti-aircraft artillery firing at German aircraft. Stalingrad, Fallen Fighters Square. 1942
Meeting of the Military Council of the Stalingrad Front: from left to right - Khrushchev N.S., Kirichenko A.I., Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Chuyanov A.S.t and Front Commander Colonel General Eremenko A.I. Stalingrad. 1942
A group of submachine gunners of the 120th (308th) Guards Rifle Division, under the command of Sergeev A., conducts reconnaissance during street fighting in Stalingrad. 1942
Red Navy men of the Volga Flotilla during a landing operation near Stalingrad. 1942
Military Council of the 62nd Army: from left to right - Chief of Staff of the Army Krylov N.I., Army Commander Chuikov V.I., member of the Military Council Gurov K.A. and commander of the 13th Guards Rifle Division Rodimtsev A.I. District of Stalingrad. 1942
Soldiers of the 64th Army are fighting for a house in one of the districts of Stalingrad. 1942
Commander of the Don Front, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky K.K. in a combat position in the region of Stalingrad. 1942
Battle in the area of Stalingrad. 1942
Fight for the house on Gogol street. 1943
Baking bread on your own. . 1942
Fighting in the city center. 1943
Storming of the railway station. 1943
Soldiers of the long-range guns of junior lieutenant Snegirev I. are firing from the left bank of the Volga. 1943
A military orderly carries a wounded soldier of the Red Army. Stalingrad. 1942
Soldiers of the Don Front advance to a new firing line in the area of the encircled Stalingrad group of Germans. 1943
Soviet sappers pass through the destroyed snow-covered Stalingrad. 1943
Captured Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957) exits a GAZ-M1 vehicle at the headquarters of the 64th Army in Beketovka, Stalingrad Region. 01/31/1943
Soviet soldiers climb the stairs of a destroyed house in Stalingrad. January 1943
Soviet troops in battle in Stalingrad. January 1943
Soviet soldiers in battle among the destroyed buildings in Stalingrad. 1942
Soviet soldiers attack enemy positions near Stalingrad. January 1943
Italian and German prisoners leave Stalingrad after the surrender. February 1943
Soviet soldiers move through the destroyed workshop of the plant in Stalingrad during the battle.
Soviet light tank T-70 with troops on the armor on the Stalingrad front. November 1942
German artillerymen are firing on the outskirts of Stalingrad. In the foreground, a dead Red Army soldier in cover. 1942
Conducting political information in the 434th Fighter Aviation Regiment. In the first row from left to right: Heroes of the Soviet Union Senior Lieutenant I.F. Golubin, captain V.P. Babkov, Lieutenant N.A. Karnachenok (posthumously), the commissar of the regiment, battalion commissar V.G. Strelmashchuk. In the background is a Yak-7B fighter with the inscription "Death for death!" on the fuselage. July 1942
Wehrmacht infantry at the destroyed plant "Barricades" in Stalingrad.
Red Army soldiers with an accordion celebrate the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on the Square of the Fallen Fighters in the liberated Stalingrad. January
1943
Soviet mechanized unit during the offensive near Stalingrad. November 1942
Soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division of Colonel Vasily Sokolov at the Krasny Oktyabr plant in the destroyed Stalingrad. December 1942
Soviet tanks T-34/76 near the Square of the Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad. January 1943
German infantry take cover behind stacks of steel blanks (blooms) at the Krasny Oktyabr plant during the battles for Stalingrad. 1942
Sniper Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Zaytsev explains to the newcomers the upcoming task. Stalingrad. December 1942
Soviet snipers go to the firing position in the destroyed Stalingrad. The legendary sniper of the 284th Infantry Division Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev and his students are sent into an ambush. December 1942.
Italian driver killed on the road near Stalingrad. Next to the truck FIAT SPA CL39. February 1943
Unknown Soviet submachine gunner with PPSh-41 during the battles for Stalingrad. 1942
Red Army soldiers are fighting among the ruins of a destroyed workshop in Stalingrad. November 1942
Red Army soldiers are fighting among the ruins of a destroyed workshop in Stalingrad. 1942
German prisoners of war captured by the Red Army in Stalingrad. January 1943
Calculation of the Soviet 76-mm ZiS-3 divisional gun at the position near the Krasny Oktyabr plant in Stalingrad. December 10, 1942
An unknown Soviet machine gunner with a DP-27 in one of the destroyed houses in Stalingrad. December 10, 1942
Soviet artillery fires on the encircled German troops in Stalingrad. Presumably, in the foreground is a 76-mm regimental gun of the 1927 model. January 1943
Soviet Il-2 attack aircraft take off on a combat mission near Stalingrad. January 1943
Fighter pilot of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 220th Fighter Aviation Division of the 16th Air Army of the Stalingrad Front, Sergeant Ilya Mikhailovich Chumbarev near the wreckage of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 189 reconnaissance aircraft shot down with the help of a ram. 1942
Soviet artillerymen firing at German positions in Stalingrad from a 152-mm howitzer-gun ML-20 model 1937. January 1943
The calculation of the Soviet 76.2-mm gun ZiS-3 is firing in Stalingrad. November 1942
Soviet soldiers sit by the fire in a moment of calm in Stalingrad. The soldier second from the left has a captured German MP-40 submachine gun. 01/07/1943
Cameraman Valentin Ivanovich Orlyankin (1906-1999) in Stalingrad. 1943
The commander of the assault group of the marines P. Golberg in one of the shops of the destroyed plant "Barricades". 1943
Red Army soldiers are fighting on the ruins of a building in Stalingrad. 1942
Portrait of Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler in the area of the Barrikady plant in Stalingrad.
Residents of a Soviet village, previously occupied by the Germans, meet the crew of a T-60 light tank from the Soviet liberators. Stalingrad region. February 1943
Soviet troops on the offensive near Stalingrad, in the foreground the famous Katyusha rocket launchers, behind the T-34 tanks.
Soviet troops on the offensive, in the foreground is a horse-drawn wagon with food, behind Soviet T-34 tanks. Stalingrad front.
Soviet soldiers attack with the support of T-34 tanks near the city of Kalach. November 1942
Soldiers of the 13th Guards Rifle Division in Stalingrad during rest hours. December 1942
Soviet T-34 tanks with armored soldiers on the march in the snowy steppe during the Stalingrad strategic offensive operation. November 1942
Soviet T-34 tanks with armored soldiers on the march in the snowy steppe during the Middle Don offensive. December 1942
Tankers of the 24th Soviet tank corps (from December 26, 1942 - the 2nd guards) on the armor of the T-34 tank during the liquidation of the group of German troops surrounded near Stalingrad. December 1942
The calculation of the Soviet 120-mm regimental mortar of the mortar battery of the battalion commander Bezdetko fires at the enemy. Stalingrad region. 01/22/1943
The captured Field Marshal Paulus and his adjutant are being escorted to the headquarters of the 64th Army. 01/31/1943
Soviet generals (two lieutenant generals and a major general) are talking with soldiers near a German Pz.Kpfw tank captured near Stalingrad. III Ausf. L. 1942
A German tank Pz.Kpfw captured near Stalingrad. III Ausf. L. 1942
Red Army prisoners who died of hunger and cold. The POW camp was located in the village of Bolshaya Rossoshka near Stalingrad. January 1943
German Heinkel He-177A-5 bombers from I./KG 50 at the airfield in Zaporozhye. These bombers were used to supply the German troops encircled at Stalingrad. January 1943
Romanian prisoners of war taken prisoner in the area of the village of Raspopinskaya near the city of Kalach. November-December 1942
Romanian prisoners of war taken prisoner in the area of the village of Raspopinskaya near the city of Kalach. November-December 1942
GAZ-MM trucks used as fuel trucks during refueling at one of the stations near Stalingrad. The engine hoods are covered with covers, instead of doors - canvas valves. Don Front, winter 1942-1943.
