Extraordinary, newly colorized images of Auschwitz 75 years ago reveal the full horror of the Nazis’ most notorious concentration camp
Thickly wrapped up against the bitter cold, some carrying their few remaining belongings on their shoulders, men, women, and children stand in neat lines of five, waiting… to find out whether they will live or die. Behind them, mothers and…
11 Anzeichen, dass dein Hund seine letzten Stunden erlebt
Foto: Shutterstock Hunde sind mehr als nur Haustiere – sie sind unsere besten Freunde, unsere treuen Beschützer und unsere Familie. Sie erfüllen unser Leben mit Freude, Gesellschaft und bedingungsloser Liebe. Doch so sehr wir uns auch wünschen, dass sie für…
A historical look at Germany’s remarkable MG42 machine gun
The MG34 delivered devastating fire during Germany’s Blitzkrieg victories at the beginning of World War II, but the MG42, which was intended to replace it, had the greatest impact since the end of the war. As good as the MG34…
German Special Operations 1943: Paratroopers, anti-tank and dive bombers in multi-layered operations
The desolate, weathered karst of the Montenegrin mountains lies beneath our aircraft like a lunar landscape. This impenetrable labyrinth of ravines and chasms is an El Dorado for the communist gangs living in this rocky wilderness. But the Stukas…
Kursk – Geschichte im Bild erzählt
Vor der Schlacht um Kursk fand die Schlacht um Stalingrad statt, die größte Konfrontation des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Sie dauerte von August 1942 bis Februar 1943 und vernichtete die deutsche 6. Armee. Am letzten Tag der Schlacht ergaben sich 91.000 deutsche…
25 color photos document the fall of Paris in 1940
On June 14, 1940, Parisians were awakened by a voice with a German accent announcing over the loudspeaker that a curfew would be imposed at 8:00 p.m. that evening because German troops were about to invade and occupy Paris. British…
Eastern Front in color photos, 1942
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theater of war between the European Axis powers and their ally Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and several other Allies, spanning Northern, Southern, and Eastern Europe from June 22, 1941,…
The Eastern Front: Key Battles and Strategies (1941–1944)
For the invasion of Russia, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, the German army assembled some three million men, divided into a total of 105 infantry divisions and 32 Panzer divisions. There were 3,332 tanks, over 7,000 artillery pieces, 60,000 motor vehicles, and…
The German tank destroyer Sd.Kfz.251/9
Description The m.Schütz.Pz.Wg. (Sd.Kfz.251/9) , nicknamed the “Stummel,” was an infantry support vehicle developed by Nazi Germany in 1942 during World War II. The Wehrmacht had learned from its experience on the Eastern Front and, having a surplus of 7.5 cm howitzers…
The bloody battles on the Eastern Front in photographs, 1942-1943
Sometime in the autumn of 1942, Soviet soldiers advance through the rubble of Stalingrad. The fighting on the Eastern Front represented the largest military conflict in history. It was characterized by unprecedented cruelty, total destruction, mass deportations, and enormous loss…