A series of documentary photographs for Victory Day in the Second World War 1941-1945. A selection of 95 rare photographs military equipment and participants in the Second World War. A unique photo from the scenes of events of 1941-1945, military actions in the history of black and white photography. We look at online documentary photos of the Second World War 1941-1945.
Junior Sergeant Konstantin Aleksandrovich Shuty (06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shuty, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.
Junior sergeant, mortarman - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kiev. 1st Ukrainian Front.
A US 5th Division Marine killed by a Japanese sniper, shot in the head (a bullet hole is visible on his helmet).
Sailors of the Soviet destroyer Project 7 “Crushing” with the ship’s pet, area of the bow torpedo tubes, bow view.
The German dive bomber Junkers Ju-87 "Stuka" being repaired at a field airfield.
The beginning of a counterattack by one of the units of the 270th Rifle Division of the Soviet 7th Guards Army on the Kursk Bulge.
Head of the Political Directorate of the 4th Ukrainian Front, Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), future leader USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade.
Head of Communications of the 51st MTAP Bykov V.V. instructs gunners-radio operators before the flight Kolberg (Germany) - Pernov (Estonia). From left to right Mikhalev, Karpov, Archakov, Shishkin, Volkov, Chekanov, Bykov.
Unknown partisans of the 1st Proletarian Brigade of the NOAU, armed with Czech light machine guns ZB vz. 26. The village of Zharkovo near Belgrade on the eve of the battles for the city.
Unidentified Soviet female snipers near the dugout. They are wearing sergeant's shoulder straps and holding a Mosin rifle with a PU optical sight (Short Sight).
An unknown American soldier of the US 87th Infantry Division, killed by a German sniper in the spring of 1945 in the city of Koblenz, Germany. The soldier's weapon is the BAR automatic rifle.
The German 105-mm self-propelled gun "Wespe" (Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe) from the 74th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 2nd tank division of the Wehrmacht, passes next to an abandoned Soviet 76-mm ZIS-3 gun in the area of the city of Orel.
German self-propelled gun "Vespe" after being hit by a large-caliber projectile.
German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
German self-propelled gun Marder II in an ambush, between houses, in a Ukrainian village.
German quad 20-mm anti-aircraft self-propelled gun (ZSU) "Werbelwind" based on the Pz.Kpfw tank. IV, destroyed by a direct hit from a large-caliber shell.
German rangers at an MG-34 machine gun on the Eastern Front.
German officers captured by French soldiers during the liberation of Paris. Hotel Majestic, favored by the Wehrmacht during the occupation.
German infantrymen and tank crews select bottles of alcoholic drinks in a warehouse.
German soldiers in a captured Soviet T-34 tank. The car is ready to be sent to Germany for testing. On the front sheet the inscription “O.K.H.Wa. Prvf. 6" (military acceptance 6).
German soldiers inspect the captured positions of Soviet troops.
22.11.2016
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Wars should have no place in a civilized society, but they, large or small, are fought continuously. We have all seen many photographs from the Great Patriotic War. Photojournalists, risking their lives along with the military, were able to leave us a lot of evidence, thanks to which we can plunge into history...
Russian prisoners of war. Lithuania, Vilna, June 1941.
War correspondent. Summer, 1941.
But how many of us have seen military evidence from the other side? Are we interested in this? Are we ready to see how the invaders of our land perceived this war? Still, no matter how painful it may be to look at some of these photographs, studying them can provide a lot for understanding that page of our history.
Captured Russian officer. Summer, 1941
Soldiers on a landing boat. Summer, 1942
Prisoners during Operation Citadel. Summer, 1943
Motorized squad. Summer, 1943
SS officer. 1944
SS troops at rest. 1944
Rocket mortars. Summer, 1942
Tracked tractors and guns. March-April 1944.
German SS cavalry. July 16, 1941.
Column of Russian prisoners. July 1941
Tank officer. Summer 1941.
Tankers. Summer 1941.
Conversing soldiers. Summer 1941.
Himmler in Kharkov. 1942-1943
Himmler with officers. 1942-1943
Soldiers from the ditch fire from a grenade launcher. Summer 1941.
A column of German StuG III assault guns on the march to the Caucasus.
Column of Soviet prisoners of war. In the center there is a running soldier - perhaps trying to escape.
A column of tanks from the SS division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” near Kharkov. The third battle for Kharkov.
The commander of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, Standartenführer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with a fox terrier in the Kovel area.
The commander distributes cigarettes to his soldiers. Pomerania, late February 1945.
Red Army commander before execution. August-September 1941, Ukraine
Tankers examine the mark of a Soviet shell on the armor of their tank.
The commander of the Finnish squadron at the Utti airfield near the Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter
German soldiers inspect the Soviet Ar-2 dive bomber shot down near Demyansk. A very rare car (only about 200 were produced).
German soldiers cross the state border of the USSR.
German soldiers pose against the backdrop of the French giant Char 2C tank.
Second World War (September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945) - the war of two world military-political coalitions, which became the largest war in human history. 61 states out of 73 existing at that time (80% of the world's population) participated in it. The fighting took place on the territory of three continents and in the waters of four oceans. This is the only conflict in which nuclear weapons were used.
At the top: 1941. Belarus, a German reporter eats a cucumber offered by a peasant woman
1941. Artillerymen of the 2nd battery of the 833rd heavy artillery battalion of the Wehrmacht are preparing to fire a 600-mm self-propelled mortar “Karl” (Karl Gerät 040 Nr.III “Odin”) in the Brest area.
1941. Battle of Moscow. Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism or LVZ (638 Wehrmacht Infantry Regiment)
1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers dressed for the weather during battle
1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers captured Russian prisoners of war in a trench
1941. Waffen-SS
1941. Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili among prisoners of war during the battle for Smolensk
1941. Leningrad, Colonel General Erich Hoepner and Major General Franz Landgraf
1941. Minsk, German soldiers in an occupied city
1941. Murmansk, Mountain Riflemen made a stop along the way
1941. German artillerymen inspect the remains of the heavy artillery tractor “Voroshilovets”
1941. German prisoners of war guarded by Russian soldiers
1941. German soldiers in position. Behind them in the ditch are Russian prisoners of war.
1941. Odessa, Romanian soldiers inspect captured property of the Soviet army
1941. Novgorod, awarding of German soldiers
1941. Russian soldiers inspect trophies taken from the Germans and discover potatoes in a gas mask case
1941. Red Army soldiers studying war trophies
1941. Sonderkraftfahrzeug 10 tractor and soldiers of the Reich SS division drive through the village
1941. Ukraine, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler talks with peasants
1941. Ukraine, column of Russian prisoners of war including women
1941. Ukraine, Soviet prisoner of war before execution on charges of being an agent of the GPU
1941. Two Russian prisoners of war talk with German soldiers from the Waffen-SS
1941.Moscow, Germans in the vicinity of the city
1941.German traffic controllers
1941.Ukraine, a German soldier accepts an offered glass of milk
1942. Two German sentries on the Eastern Front
1942. Leningrad region, a column of German prisoners of war in a besieged city
1942. Leningrad region, German troops at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city
1942. Leningrad region, one of the first Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger
1942. German troops cross the Don
1942. German soldiers clear the road after a snowfall
1942. Pechory, German officers are photographed with clergy
1942. Russia, corporal checks documents of peasant women
1942. Russia, a German gives a cigarette to a Russian prisoner of war
1942. Russia, German soldiers leave a burning village
1942. Stalingrad, the remains of a German He-111 bomber among the city ruins
1942. Terek Cossacks from self-defense units.
1942. Non-commissioned officer Helmut Kolke of the 561st Wehrmacht Brigade with the crew on his Marder II self-propelled gun, the next day he received the German Cross in gold and the Honor Buckle
1942. Leningrad region
1942. Leningrad region, Volkhov Front, a German gives a piece of bread to a child
1942. Stalingrad, a German soldier cleans a K98 Mauser during a break between battles
1943. Belgorod region, German soldiers talk with women and children
1943. Belgorod region, Russian prisoners of war
1943. A peasant woman tells Soviet intelligence officers about the location of enemy units. North of the city of Orel
1943. German soldiers have just caught a Soviet soldier
1943. Russia, two German prisoners of war
1943. Russian Cossacks in the Wehrmacht during a blessing (priests in the foreground)
1943. Sappers neutralize German anti-tank mines
1943. Snipers of the unit of senior lieutenant F.D. Lunina fire volleys at enemy aircraft
1943. Stalingrad, a column of German prisoners of war on the edge of the city
1943. Stalingrad, column of German, Romanian and Italian prisoners of war
1943. Stalingrad, German prisoners of war pass by a woman with empty buckets. There will be no luck.
1943. Stalingrad, captured German officers
1943. Ukraine, Znamenka, the driver of the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger looks through the hatch of the car at a tank stuck in the mud on the river bank
1943.Stalingrad, city center on the day of the surrender of German troops
1944. Commander of the 4th Air Command, Luftwaffe Colonel General Otto Desloch and commander of II./StG2, Major Dr. Maxsimilian Otte (shortly before his death)
1944. Crimea, capture of German soldiers by Soviet sailors
1944. Leningrad region, column of German troops
1944. Leningrad region, German prisoners of war
1944. Moscow. Passage of 57,000 German prisoners of war on the streets of the capital.
1944. Lunch of captured German officers in Krasnogorsk special camp No. 27
1944. Romania. German units evacuated from Crimea
1945. Poland, a column of German prisoners of war crosses the bridge over the Oder towards Ukraine
Without date. Two Soviet partisans inspect a captured German MG-34 machine gun
Without date. German soldiers clean their personal weapons. One of the soldiers has a captured Soviet PPSh submachine gun
Without date. German court martial
Without date. The Germans are taking away livestock from the population.
Without date. A Luftwaffe non-commissioned officer poses with a bottle while sitting on the head of a bust of I.V. Stalin
Another solid portion of retro photos in the project 20th century in color photographs.
Today we will look at what the world was like many years ago. More precisely, not the world, but .
In general, there are a lot of color photographs from 1941. The Germans shot on Agfa film (Agfacolor), the Americans and British - on Kodachrome. Soviet color photographs of the Great Patriotic War are not known.
As you know, the German attack on the USSR was immediately preceded by a blitzkrieg against Yugoslavia. The operation lasted from April 6 to April 17, 1941 and ended on April 17 with the surrender of this Balkan kingdom.
Units of the 14th Motorized Corps of the Wehrmacht in the Serbian city of Nis, April 1941:
At the same time, the Germans captured Greece in April 1941. Raising the Nazi flag over the Acropolis:
In 1941, the so-called “ Battle of Britain" - air war between Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Some scenes of this war were captured by the famous photographer Robert Capa.
Here we see the damaged British Blenheim bomber, which managed to make an emergency landing on its territory:
The Anglo-German war also took place at sea.
The German battleship Scharnhorst at the end of Operation Berlin, during which 8 British transport ships were sunk in the North Atlantic, March 1941:
Outside of Europe, from the very beginning of 1941, fighting took place in the African theater. Back in December 1940, the British from Egypt went on the offensive against the Italian group in Libya and inflicted a significant defeat on it.
During February 1941, German troops under the command of General Rommel were transferred to Libya, which led to a halt in the further advance of the British. And already at the end of March, Rommel’s units went on the offensive.
Column of German troops in Paris, 1941. photographer Andre Zucca:
The Germans stage a parade with captured French tanks in Paris, 1941:
Hitler and the generals inspect the 800 mm Fat Gustav gun in 1941:
The Fat Gustav gun weighed 1344 tons and to move it around railway tracks some parts needed to be dismantled. The gun was the height of a four-story building, had a width of 6 meters and a length of 42 meters. The maintenance of the Fat Gustav gun was carried out by a team of 500 people under the command of a high-ranking army official. The team needed almost three days to prepare the gun for firing.
A high-explosive shell from this cannon could hit a target at a distance of 45 kilometers.
May 1941. Equipment of the 6th German Panzer Division in East Prussia before the invasion of the USSR:
German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, at a press conference in Berlin, announces the start of war against the Soviet Union:
In 1941, the Wehrmacht had something like one and a half million cameras in its backpacks.
German soldiers, officers and photojournalists meticulously recorded every step on Soviet soil. Of course, they especially liked to take pictures of trophies and broken equipment of the Red Army.
Soviet T-28 tank:
The Nazis inspect the Soviet T-34 tank:
Soviet KV-2 tank destroyed in the battle for the city of Ostrov, July 1941:
Battlefield near Ostrov, early July 1941:
Damaged Soviet fighter I-16:
Damaged soviet fighters I-153 "Chaika":
The Finns also filmed in their sector of the front, often in color.
Burnt out Soviet armored car on the Karelian Isthmus, 1941:
Germans in Grodno, June 1941:
Germans in Lithuania, June 1941:
The bell tower will be restored only in 1973.
July 41st:
Soviet prisoners of war:
In September 41, the Germans captured Kyiv:
In the 20th of September the enemy took Peterhof:
On October 2, 1941, Petrozavodsk was occupied by the Finnish Karelian Army and renamed Äänislinna:
Advanced German units of the 11th Panzer Division near Volokolamsk, November 1941:
Here came the end of their Blitzkrieg.
Now a small gallery of satellites of Nazi Germany in 1941.
Soldiers of the Spanish “Blue Division”, which fought against the USSR near Novgorod and Leningrad, 1941:
Soldiers of the French Volunteer Legion, 1941:
Having defeated Yugoslavia, the Germans created on part of its territory the puppet “Independent State of Croatia”, whose army became one of Hitler’s most zealous satellites.
In this photo, the commander of the Croatian ground forces, General Slavko Stancer, 1941:
On December 7, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. The Second World War opened new theater on the Pacific Ocean.
A light boat takes part in the rescue of the crew of the battleship West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941:
According to Hawaiian tradition, American sailors honor the memory of fallen comrades after the shelling of Pearl Harbor, 1941: 
Since December 41, the Japanese waged a simultaneous war against the Americans, British and Chinese. The war with the latter began back in 1937.
The Japanese didn’t have color film, so you’ll have to be content with colored pictures.
Japanese light tank Type 97 Te-Ke against the backdrop of a burning house in China, 1941:
Operating over an unimaginably vast area, the Japanese captured French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies (now the territory of Indonesia) in 1941.
Soldiers of the Japanese 5th Infantry Division in occupied Saigon, December 1941:
Japanese battleship Hiei2 at sunset in Saeki Bay, 1941:
