Germany

During Kristallnacht, Jewish goods, properties and synagogues were attacked and destroyed, while tens of thousands of Jewish people were arrested and / or deported. Kristallnacht (9-10th November 1938) emerged as a response to the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan. The pogrom was …

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels being shown a production while taking a tour of the UFA film studios in Babelsberg, January 1935. Production manager Gunter Stapenhorst is on the left. He emigrated to the UK in 1935, before returning to Germany (via Switzerland) in 1941 and trying a comeback at …

Adolf Hitler with Romanian Prime Minister, Marshal Ion Antonescu (center, saluting), at the Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze) in February 1942. On the left of the image is Dr. Paul Schmidt, chief interpreter of the German Foreign Ministry. During the meeting, Adolf Hitler assured Marshal Antonescu that he personally guarantees Hungary and …

German U-Boat commander pictured while looking down the hatch of his submarine. Further details about the photograph are unknown. Book suggestions ⤵️ 📖 Wolf: U-Boat Commanders in World War II (Jordan Vause, 1997) 📖 U-Boat War (Lothar Gunther Buchheim, 1986)

The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula was a conflict between Axis Forces (Germany and Romania) and the Soviet Union, which took place between December 1941 – May 1942. Germany’s victory in May 1942 allowed them to focus on the ongoing siege of Sevastopol (which was captured one month later), and …

The Tiger 1, a heavy tank produced between 1942 and 1944, was quite a remarkable design at its time, but it was also expensive to build and maintain. The Tiger 1 was employed in North Africa and Europe starting with 1942. On the Eastern front, it had problems when mud, …

Rare WW2 image grabbed from the highly recommended memoirs of Wehrmacht Panzerjäger Hans Roth. In the photograph, Roth is pictured on the right, near his comrades, in front of a Sd Kfz 232 (Schwerer Panzerspähwagen) reconnaissance vehicle. The year is probably 1941. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 Eastern Inferno: Journals of …

Destroyed Reichstag building on June 3rd, 1945, one month after the fall of Berlin. The Reichstag was used by the German parliament until it was set on fire by communist Marinus van der Lubbe in 1933 – an event which the Nazi Party used to gain power just a few …

Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) landing on the Island of Crete, Greece, from Junkers Ju 52 transporter aircrafts. May 20th 1941. A burning Ju 52 is seen crashing from the air, while British ships are being sunk in Suda Bay in the background. The Battle of Crete was won by Axis forces …

Church in Foy, Belgium, near Bastogne, pictured in January 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge, and in 2019. In the historical photograph we see a wrecked Panzer IV tank. The village of Foy was made famous by the exceptional TV Mini Series “Band of Brothers”. The Battle of the …