Some Random Rare Images Of The Second World War: Part 2
Two American soldiers inspect a German Tiger tank at the Belgian village of Corenne, February, 1945. The third is admiring the passing Belgian women who too seem interested in the Americans
Romanian soldiers prepare to fire a mortar somewhere in the Caucasus. April 30, 1943.
A German soldier directs German war machines in the vicinity of Moscow. Winter 1941. He looks haggard.
Anton Klein a warden at the Mauthausen-Ebensee concentration camp moments before his hanging on November 5, 1948 at Landsberg, Germany.
British soldiers at a Norwegian village in 1940. They were soon thrown out by the Germans.
An officer of the Waffen SS 'Florian Geyer' (8th SS Cavalry Division) eats on the eastern front in 1943. These men were used in anti-partisan actions in 1943.
The end was nearing. German soldiers in an Italian town with a Tiger tank in 1944
German paratroopers jumping into Netherlands from a Ju 52 plane. May 1, 1940
Germans with North African (most probably Senegalese] French POW at St. Cloud, A suburb of Paris. 1940.
German groundsmen preparing the fighter bomber Focke-Wulf Fw.190A-5 at Kharkhov, Russia. April 1943.
An American soldier points to the head wounds of a dead soldier shot by the SS at Malmedy in December, 1944
General Leclerc of the Free French 2nd armored division gives orders after reaching Paris. August 25, 1944. The French made a rush for Paris despite American orders to the contrary to revive some of the French pride which was lost in 1940.
A Soviet T-34 tank burns on the outskirts of Moscow. December 1941. But the Germans never reached Moscow.
British POW line up for lunch at Trondheim, Norway. May 1940. Hardly the proud, gritty British.
German soldiers march in Norway. 1940.
1940. German soldiers having soup on the street of a Danish village.
Germans firing a 20 mm Flak 30 anti-aircraft gun in Italy. 1943.
American POW walking through a Belgian village. December 1944.
Red Army prisoner-of-war about to be sent deep into Finland by train during the Soviet-Finnish War in 1940.
Vision of a nightmare come true for the Germans. Red Army soldiers in Berlin. April, 1945.
American pilots aboard the light aircraft carrier 'Monterey' before flying out to attack the Japanese fleet during the Battle of the Mariana Islands. June 1944.
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"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
---Otto von Bismarck
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"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
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"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"
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Romanian soldiers prepare to fire a mortar somewhere in the Caucasus. April 30, 1943.
A German soldier directs German war machines in the vicinity of Moscow. Winter 1941. He looks haggard.
Anton Klein a warden at the Mauthausen-Ebensee concentration camp moments before his hanging on November 5, 1948 at Landsberg, Germany.
An officer of the Waffen SS 'Florian Geyer' (8th SS Cavalry Division) eats on the eastern front in 1943. These men were used in anti-partisan actions in 1943.
The end was nearing. German soldiers in an Italian town with a Tiger tank in 1944
German paratroopers jumping into Netherlands from a Ju 52 plane. May 1, 1940
Germans with North African (most probably Senegalese] French POW at St. Cloud, A suburb of Paris. 1940.
German groundsmen preparing the fighter bomber Focke-Wulf Fw.190A-5 at Kharkhov, Russia. April 1943.
An American soldier points to the head wounds of a dead soldier shot by the SS at Malmedy in December, 1944
General Leclerc of the Free French 2nd armored division gives orders after reaching Paris. August 25, 1944. The French made a rush for Paris despite American orders to the contrary to revive some of the French pride which was lost in 1940.
A Soviet T-34 tank burns on the outskirts of Moscow. December 1941. But the Germans never reached Moscow.
British POW line up for lunch at Trondheim, Norway. May 1940. Hardly the proud, gritty British.
German soldiers march in Norway. 1940.
1940. German soldiers having soup on the street of a Danish village.
Germans firing a 20 mm Flak 30 anti-aircraft gun in Italy. 1943.
American pilots aboard the light aircraft carrier 'Monterey' before flying out to attack the Japanese fleet during the Battle of the Mariana Islands. June 1944.
