Photographs

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 …

Some of the first Hungarian Jewish people to arrive at Auschwitz, held up for selection on the “Jewish ramp” in May 1944. You can see the famous main gate of Auschwitz II – Birkenau in the background. The image is part of the “Auschwitz Album”, a photographic record held by …

View from the Us Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (WPG-36), as it is sinking the German U-Boat U-175 with depth charges on April 17th, 1943. Out of a crew of 54 men, 13 were killed and 41 were taken prisoners. Book suggestions ⤵️ 📖 Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the …

Matilda I Tank of the 4th Royal Tank Regiment (Scottish) and its driver photographed in France, January 12th 1945. As we can see in the image, the tank is nicknamed DEOCH (meaning “drink”). The 4th Royal Tank Regiment was active between 1917 and 1993. It was captured at Tobruk, Libya, …

Greek resistance fighter is sitting in the mountains and overseeing the valleys during the Axis occupation of the country, sometime between 1941 and 1944. Greece had one of the strongest and most active resistance movements against Axis forces in World War II. Book suggestions ⤵️ 📖 Inside Hitler’s Greece: The …

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 …

SS Kurtulus was a Turkish cargo ship (built in 1883) which was used for humanitarian relief during World War Two, carrying food to Greece during the Axis occupation. A total of 6.735 tons of food aid are said to have been delivered by the ship to the famine-struck Greeks. SS …

An American soldier waves off a US Army Air Force Liberator bomber which had just departed for a raid over Japan (we can see the landing gear receding). The image was taken on September 13th, 1943, at an advanced US base in China, one of many American bases on Chinese …

US soldiers enter the ruined French town of Saint-Lo in July 1944, six weeks after D-Day. 95% of the city was destroyed by American bombardments as the Allies retook it from Germany on July 18th 1944. Due to the colossal damage it suffered, Saint-Lo was subsequently nicknamed “The Capital of …