Two Germans surrender to the British in Nijmegen, Holland on September 21, 1944 during Operation Market Garden.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Russell Crowe in a publicity still for Romper Stomper (1992)
With a burning bridge across the Dnieper river in the background, a German soldier keeps an eye on the captured city of Kiev, 1941. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv via the Atlantic)
From The Second World War by Anthony Beevor:
In March 1936, German troops reoccupied the Rhineland in the first overt breach of the Versailles and Locarno treaties. This slap in the face to the French, who had occupied the region over a decade earlier, ensured widespread adulation of the Fuehrer in Germany, even among many who had not voted for him. Their support and the supine Anglo-French reaction gave Hitler the nerve to continue on his course. Single-handed, he had restored German pride, while rearmament, far more than his vaunted public works programme, halted the rise in unemployment. The brutality of the Nazis and the loss of freedom seemed to most Germans a small price to pay.
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Nazi aviator Hans Phillip with a fox — When he wasn’t playing with cuddly animals, Phillip was shooting down Allied planes by the bucketful: In more than 500 sorties, he scored scored 206 aerial victories, 178 of them on the Eastern Front, and 29 against the Western Allies. He was killed in action in 1943.
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Malcolm X by Carlos Latuff.
Submitted by Learnosaurex: “Tobaken und Tokarev” — Nothing like a smoke break when you’re all stressed out from destroying Europe.
German gunner at Stalingrad, Russia, October 1942.
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Stalingrad, 1993, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier.
Gebirgsjäger with an MG 34 machine gun mounted on a boat in a Norwegian harbour.
I looked up “Gebirgsjäger” and learned they are mountain infantry like 10th Mountain Division in the U.S. or the Chasseurs Alpins in France. After World War II, Germany brought back the Gebirgsjäger units when the modern German army was reconstituted as the Bundeswehr in late 1955.
And, chuckle, chuckle, these high-altitude mountain troops are on a boat in the water, not a tall hunk of rock. What next, Marines fighting in a landlocked country? Knee slap!
Charlotte Rampling in a promo still for Luchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969)
German paratrooper in a WWII propaganda photo. Note the box of grenades used as cover.
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Gene Kelly resists in a publicity still for the WWII film The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
Denazification: an Allied soldier removes an “Adolf Hitler” street sign and replaces it with one named for Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945.
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.
Generally worked a lot better than De-Ba’athification.
