Don't know if any of you have ever looked at the archive releases that can be seen on wikimedia, but the Bundesarchive has just released approx 100K WWII images, here's a few:
Absolutely fascinating collection, link:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... _Bild_101I
Enjoy (hope the link works 
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'shokt
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom"
H.L.Mencken
Nice.
God, some of the Warsaw ones are a bit grim tho.
This Heer soldier seems to be wearing knee high puttees. Anyone seen this before?
Wow, some of these are amazing.
Wow, some of these are amazing.
that middle one is'nt ww2, thats a pre cia game social 
The high puttees are Gebirgsjager standard issue.
Well I did not know that - best thing about this forum is that you really do learn something new every day.
Nice find.
Interesting series of photos of Fallschirmjager executing Greek civilians in Crete
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.ph ... uf+PKW.jpg
Seem to be under the command of Oberleutnant Horst Trebes, who later lost his commision and Knights cross when he shot Oberjäger Karl Polzin by accident after a party.
Also interesting to see lots of the said FJ's wearing the tropical pith helmets. Never realised they were quite so big!
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
Also interesting to see lots of the said FJ's wearing the tropical pith helmets. Never realised they were quite so big!
That's just horrible. Really makes me feel queasy seeing pictures like that.
If you look in the Brian l Davis book on German Army Uniforms and Insignia there are several photos of both officers and enlisted men wearing the long puttees (gamaschen) and the drawing on page 172.
re executions,
that reminds me why i like shooting germans so much,
funny how some see a good ref and others see an execution,,,,,,
i wonder what the story and truth is behind that set of pics, interesting,,,
warren
ps, and that was me under the inprestion that the Fallschirmjager didant do to many of that sort of thing ???
team shoot and scoot, TL
re executions,
that reminds me why i like shooting germans so much,
funny how some see a good ref and others see an execution,,,,,,i wonder what the story and truth is behind that set of pics, interesting,,,
warren
ps, and that was me under the inprestion that the Fallschirmjager didant do to many of that sort of thing ???
You've got to hand it to the Nazis, they were good at documenting their crimes.
I actually thought carefully about representing a german soldier, the symbols of Nazism come with a weight of terrible baggage. For myself I've kept the symbols to a minimum.
Also interesting to see lots of the said FJ's wearing the tropical pith helmets. Never realised they were quite so big!
That's just horrible. Really makes me feel queasy seeing pictures like that.
That's a bit of an extreme reaction to the use of pith helmets.
Pith Helmets are ace! Someone post a pic! 
Pith Helmets are ace! Someone post a pic!
Ah the British Wolsley Pith helmet... wonderful...
Ah the British Wolsley Pith helmet... wonderful...
Is that your specialist category on mastermind? Pith Helmets of the World throughout the Ages
Hardly... I don't know that much about them...
Well you can learn about them on Wikipedia. Well I say learn. No. I am unkind. It is useful for little facts.
And someone out there must have it as their specialist mastermind subject, as its article is longer than the one for the Ilbert Bill (as a random example). One resulted in a wide ranging mid nineteenth century controversy shaking the very foundations of Britain's Ideologies of colonialism, liberalism, government and race. The other is a moderately amusing hat. 
Well at least they were not worn by Jedi's, or else it would be a 5 part article. 
