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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Germans In Russia: Later Years: The Retreat: An Picture Album

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German soldiers move though a devastated Russian town

VIDEO: JANUARY 1945: GERMAN NEWSREEL


Grodno 1944. It is time to retreat and the aim is to slow down the pursuing Soviet army. A German soldiers lights a fuse to blow up rail tracks.

June 1944

February 1944. A pathetic sight. The once mighty German army withdraws from Leningrad area on horse-carts

The same retreat

Retreat from Polotsk. July 1944

March 1944. Discussing the best way to retreat

 February 1944. German troops  retreating, between Lake Ilmen and the Gulf of Finland

April 1944. Dneister

April 1944. Pskov area

January end. 1944. Near Novgorod

 

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German soldiers in Russia: EarlyYears: An Album

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Germans cross a bridge in Russia





Germans at Brest

A German general discusses strategy with his men

This officer's car is stuck in the Russian slush

At Vyazma

A camel seized by the Germans and used by mountain rangers. 1941

Windfall. Germans are delighted to find these cans of tinned food left behind by the Russians

German tanks move towards Kerch



This German gunner is making necessary adjustments in his gun

These German officers are poring over a map

Examining a Soviet anti-tank gun

Germans on the streets of Krasnodar. The German has a gleam in his eye!

VIDEO; GERMAN NEWSREEL: ENTERING CAUCASIA 


Again in Krasnodar. 1942

On the streets of Taganrog

Hoisting their flag in Stalingrad

On  a Rostov street. 1942

VIDEO: FIGHTING IN ROSTOV: GERMAN NEWSREEL 


In a Russian village

In Grodno. 1941

VIDEO: GERMANS ENTERING THE TOWN OF GRODNO, 1941


German thoroughness. Checking documents

Novgorod. August 1941

At a Russian village

Using French guns in Russia

 

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Life In Russia Under German Occupation: WW2

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A local interpreter spells out the new rules laid down by the Germans

A burly German checks documents of Russian women

Russian people sent to Germany to work as slave labor. Near Stalingrad.

Russian people bundled into trains to be sent to Germany

German soldiers seizing food grain from a Russian village to be sent to Germany

A Russian Jewish family being sent to the ghetto. Byelorussia. 1941.

A Jewish ghetto in Russia. 1941

Russian Jews forced to clean streets. 1941.

Note the stars that the Jews were forced to wear

Germans arresting some locals 

German soldiers smile and smirk as they pass some Russian women working on the roadside. 1941. Is it because the men were pining for female company? Or is it because of a sense of racial superiority?

A German officer addresses the people of an occupied Russian town

Folks of a village sent for forced labor

A German officer questions residents of a town

Russians register themselves a t a labor exchange manned by Germans

Russian children gives German soldier s shoe-shine. November 1942

German soldiers check traffic documents in Lithuania. 1942

Russians forced to make a log bridge.

Russian peasants read a new German order. 1942

A Russian boy carries a wheel-barrow containing the luggage of German soldiers at a Russian rail station. May 1943

SS men herd Russian folks on trucks to be sent to Germany as slave labor. June 1943

 

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