🇩🇪 A lunch in the heart of the North African theater of war
On a military vehicle in the middle of the arid desert, the legendary General Erwin Rommel – the “Desert Fox” – shares a meal with a soldier. A rare, everyday moment in the midst of war.
📸This colorized photo dates from World War II and shows the Afrika Korps during the North African campaign (1941–1943).
The photo shows a German soldier buying a newspaper on the Place de la Concorde in Paris (1942).
German soldiers return to Berlin after the French campaign in July 1940 .
A German soldier jumps over a trench with an MG34 machine gun in his hand.
On September 1, 1939, one and a half million Germans crossed the Polish border and conquered the country in just four weeks with the help of their Soviet allies.
German soldiers of the 1st Skijäger Division , armed with StG 44 assault rifles , in Pripyat, Ukraine (February 1944).
Members of the Volkssturm training with an MG-42 machine gun (November 1944).
In the photo, volunteer soldiers from Turkestan are checking a defensive position of the Atlantic Wall .
Sand tables like this were crucial in overcoming language barriers between troops of different backgrounds.
The commanding officer clearly displays the Turkestan unit emblem .
In the photo, a German messenger rider is sitting on a BMW R75 motorcycle (summer 1941).
A French policeman greets a German officer in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (January 31, 1941).
The photo shows a German soldier in the center of Berlin (1939).
In the photo, German soldiers perform acrobatics on a BMW motorcycle with a sidecar .
Luftwaffe ace Josef “Sepp” Wurmheller paints another kill mark on the tail of his Fw 190 .
Wurmheller is credited with 102 enemy aircraft shootdowns before being killed on June 22, 1944 , in a collision with his wingman during a dogfight between a USAAF P-47 and an RCAF Spitfire .
The photo shows German soldiers of the Großdeutschland Division in a street battle in Rostov-on-Don (1944).
The photo shows a German sergeant major resting during the third battle of Kharkov ( April 1943 ).
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