A fully camouflaged German soldier with a drum-loading MG 34 on the Eastern Front.

A German paratrooper eats during a lull in the fighting at the Battle of Ortona in Italy (December 22, 1943).

In the photo: Field Marshal Walter Model with his staff officers somewhere on the Eastern Front.

A German grenade launcher and his comrades are carrying a wounded man on an improvised stretcher, behind them a Panzer IV.

Luftwaffe soldiers watch a local girl in traditional clothing hanging laundry during the summer of 1940.

A German soldier jumps over a trench with an MG34 in his hand.

A German soldier jumps over a trench with an MG34 in his hand.

German soldiers advance to the front line.

Norwegian fighter pilot Erik Haaborn shows the squadron insignia of his squadron, which flew the Typhoon Mk1b.

Men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, relax at the Berghof, the so-called “Eagle’s Nest.”

A German prisoner of war, captured in Stalingrad, is escorted by a Soviet soldier.

A German paratrooper eats during a lull in the fighting at the Battle of Ortona in Italy (December 22, 1943).

A fully camouflaged German soldier with a drum-loading MG 34 on the Eastern Front.

In the photo: Field Marshal Walter Model with his staff officers somewhere on the Eastern Front.

A German grenade launcher and his comrades are carrying a wounded man on an improvised stretcher, behind them a Panzer IV.

Luftwaffe soldiers watch a local girl in traditional clothing hanging laundry during the summer of 1940.

A German soldier jumps over a trench with an MG34 in his hand.

A German soldier jumps over a trench with an MG34 in his hand.

German soldiers advance to the front line.

Norwegian fighter pilot Erik Haaborn shows the squadron insignia of his squadron, which flew the Typhoon Mk1b.

Men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, relax at the Berghof, the so-called “Eagle’s Nest.”

A German prisoner of war, captured in Stalingrad, is escorted by a Soviet soldier.