Images of the Second World War - Possibly NSFW

Riamfada

I think a thread dedicated to images of the War is in order. No chat, just photos? And of course good taste ! (no camp victims/extreme violence ect?). Let me get the ball rolling.

Dr Strange

Nice one, Grimes.

But I do think that the photos need captioning or at least a title explaining what they are about. It would make it more interesting and informative.

I'll be happy to post some in future with some titles/comments.

FiSe

...and as well, we have to be careful about copyright laws...

Nice pictures, BTW.
Will post a few photos from my archive at some stage as well.

TerrorFirmer

edited till later

FiSe

First batch from my collection:

Town of Znojmo in South Moravia, Czech Republic- during summer months of 1945. In front of bombed out railway station was "junk yard of war machinery" no longer needed. There was a motley collection of german and soviet tanks /remnants of Division Feldherrenhalle 2/ together with Hungarian Turan I and II tanks, Renaults, KingTigers, Panthers, Jagdpanthers, Hetzers, Jagdpanzers, IS2s, T34s and soft skin vehicles.

TerrorFirmer

One of the most famous images of the war, Warsaw Ghetto 1943. I actually read somewhere that the boy in question actually survived the war, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.



Very haunting picture of Russian dead, taken by German soldier in 1941. They died defending their knocked out tank.



Two pictures showing Utashi brutality; an area of WW2 completely alien to most people. They were responsible for murdering hundreds of thousands.





German soldier in front of burning building, Poland 1939.



POW points out German guard who used to beat them, 1945.



Russian and American harmony, April 1945.



Picture showing the reality of war, German soldier crushed and left to be passed over by tracked vehicles , 1942.



Improvised memorial to fallen soldiers on D-Day.



On the road to Stalingrad.



Beautiful picture showing initial good relations between German soldiers and the native Eastern population who longed to be liberated from Stalin.



Battle of Kursk.

TerrorFirmer

Japanese prisoner of war washing.



Home leave.



Sudetan woman crying as forced to give Hitler salute, 1938.



Very young German soldiers lucky to be captured.







Very famous picture, used in Wolfenstein



Near miss in Russia! :eek:



Battle of the Bulge



Interesting picture; captured 'German' soldier.

TerrorFirmer

German soldiers executed by US army at Dachau



Prisoners, taken before they beat this man to death with a shovel, 1945.



Famous picture of Waffen SS soldier executed at close range by either American soldier, or Prisoner armed by American soldier.



Approaching Berlin



Street Fighting in Berlin, April 1945










Volksturm, result of Nazi desperation.



Dead German soldier in front of Brandenburg Gate.



Victory

Krieg

Some great photos there.
Might be worth throwing a "[Possibly NSFW]" caption to the thread title?

FiSe

...and I have to remind you about copyright laws again, lads.

Nice pictures, btw

motherfunker

Not trying to be funny Grimes but how can you have pictures in good taste about a conflict that claimed over 50 million lives. Did the camps not happen, was it not an extremely violent and often barbaric war? I'm sure if you asked any veterans they would tell you there was not much in good taste about the whole thing. This is a WW2 forum for people who have broad enough minds to know that this stuff happened but that it is acceptable to discuss these events in a mature manner.
I presume you think your pictures are in good taste, the ladies dancing are probably celebrating news of an early German victory in which thousands of innocent soilders died protecting their families(this is just a guess, I'm not sure what the picture is), the Russian soilders lazing about in the field have probably seen thousands of their comrades masacred by the German onslaught, these men then may have gone on to torture and disembowel living german pow's, forced others to eat their own genitals or maybe impaled them on their bayonetted K98's.
Terrorfirmer's pictures are what really happened and happen in war to this day, people die and as far as I can remember it is hard to die in good taste.

motherfunker

Hi,
I hope I dident put anybody off posting pictures in this thread, I'm not against pictures of any kind, I really liked all the pictures that were posted and would love to see more, pictures say a thousand words and I had not seen most of these pictures before. I just dont like this watered down "good taste" crap. War is war, millions of people died, most of us can accept that fact, if you cant WW2 is not for you. Please post more pictures, the more people see, the more they understand.

ojewriej

This is a website with the pictures from the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. It has pretty cool feature - you can see the pictures taken in 1944 and with one click see what the place looks like now. It's in polish I'm afraid, but it doesn't really matter, as it's just pictures really. Just click on one of the links (they are names of the streets on which the picture was taken), and than using a control underneath the picture (which says "zamien") you can see what did the place look like in 1944. See what urban combat can do to the city.

http://www.pw44.pl/album.htm

And here is some of my favourites:

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt31.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt03.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt13.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt12.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt68.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt71.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt01.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt49.php

http://www.pw44.pl/album/obiekt23.php

SpitfireIV

Cool link ojewriej! I love the whole 'then and now' thing, whenever I see pics from the war (or history in general) I always have to think 'I wonder what it looks like now', that site satisfies my need!

Cheers.

Lockstep

Thanks folks, some excellent ones there.

Special thanks to Terrorfirmer.

Nordwind

Sudetan woman crying as forced to give Hitler salute, 1938.

Are you sure she's not overcome with emotion?

TerrorFirmer

Nordwind wrote: »

Are you sure she's not overcome with emotion?

Absolutely; every source credits it with that description.

Well, actually, technically your statement colludes with mine....sadness is an emotion. But I know what you meant.

Nordwind

Yeah she looks happy to me.

ojewriej

Actuall newsreel, german troops in Stalingrad.

TerrorFirmer

Could post videos all day but...

'Liberation' of Lauben

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysB3NE6Ex0

German Propoganda addressing D-Day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cRIWmbrGps

German propoganda reel, Jan 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e38d9q1wsY

Counter Attack in Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAh-mUROxNw

Counter Attack in Normandy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp5rOX0LER0

Footage of Panther vs Pershing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqH_WEqNK5Y

P-51 Gun run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjr8ZtEcrtE

comic relief

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHJ2DmWysQ

FiSe

That Pershing got him on the 2nd attempt, I think, that it was dissabled before, but don't remeber now. /and that video stops in the middle every time/
Famous tank encounter and famous pictures of that Panther with Kologne cathedral in the background are in every publication about Panther.

FiSe

...and another few from my archive. No brains here, no dead bodies, so don't even bother to look


Don't know too much about those two photograph, banner on the train is celebrating 40th anniversary/?/ of something and all of it is captured on the camera from the TATRA car in front. So I'd say it's in Czechoslovakia, but haven't figured out the town yet /Brno?/





Even almighty Wehrmacht soldier have to learn how to drive and so are these policemen.../again don't know exactly where those pics were taken/




...and those lads as well. This is taken in town of Znojmo /Znaim/ in Sudetland. The same town is featured in my first picture batch

Dr Strange

FiSe wrote: »

Don't know too much about those two photograph, banner on the train is celebrating 40th anniversary/?/ of something and all of it is captured on the camera from the TATRA car in front.

Hi FiSe,

the symbol on the front of the train (swastika inside a rack-wheel or toothed wheel) is the symbol for the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) - the German Workers Front.

Preusse

FiSe

Cheers,
I know... But it doesn't help a lot to identify that picture, only that it celebrates something along the line of "40th steam tram out from our factory..." or "40yrs of steam in the Reich..."

ojewriej

Dinner time in Bastogne


Germans taking care of their wounded


Storming Monte Casino


Desert Rats


St Meire Eglise



D-Day, 101st on it's way

ojewriej

Can you tell me if you can see the pictures in my previous post? I could see them in the morning, but know all I see is a little X icon. I chekced the links and they are fine. Anyone knows what's up with that?

Dr Strange

ojewriej wrote: »

Can you tell me if you can see the pictures in my previous post? I could see them in the morning, but know all I see is a little X icon. I chekced the links and they are fine. Anyone knows what's up with that?

Can only see X but no pics.

ojewriej

It's odd, I can't even see Xs anymore, just the descriptions. I asked on the Helpdesk, maybe they will be able to help.

Sherifu

I'd say they've disabled hotlinking. The images exist because I checked them. I see the x's.

ojewriej

I'm not sure if I get it. If hotlinking is disabled, how come we can see other pics?

Sherifu

ojewriej wrote: »

I'm not sure if I get it. If hotlinking is disabled, how come we can see other pics?

Disabled by the photo site.[www.worldwar.za.pl] Not by boards.

ojewriej

Never thought of that, feel so foolish now ;-)

Pity, they have good pictures there

Is there any way of checking it before posting?

Sherifu

Dinner time in Bastogne

Germans taking care of their wounded

Storming Monte Casino

Desert Rats

St Meire Eglise



D-Day, 101st on it's way

DonalN

excellent thread - please keep posting!

ojewriej

Operation Torch:







Wehrmacht crossing the Polish border, September 1939




Fall of Warsaw ghetto rising



Polish paratroopers, Operation Market Garden

motherfunker

Pavlov's House & Pavlov


Germans Surrender


The Madonna of Stalingrad

Heisenberg.

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motherfunker

Can I ask what "Possibly NSFW" in this title means?

Dr Strange

motherfunker wrote: »

Can I ask what "Possibly NSFW" in this title means?

It means Not Safe For Work and refers to picture that may not be permitted by your workplace (nudity etc) or may cause distress amongst your colleagues who may accidentally come across open pictures on your desktop (such as images of bodies, mutilations, etc.).

motherfunker

Never heard of that one before.
Cheers.

Belfast

WW2 Like Reconstruction photos St. Petersburg city
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1747#more-1747

Russian Army in Berlin, Germany
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1912#more-1912

American Weapons in Russian Army
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1722#more-1722

marcsignal

That warsaw ghetto uprising 'then & now' site is excellent ojewriej

Similar one of germany here

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/index.htm


and another very interesting one (although off topic) listing all of the WW2 German and Allied aircraft landings/crashes in Ireland, listing location of crash sites, types/models of Aircraft, and fate of crews.

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~dan/war/crashes.htm


Also, I nearly forgot I did this, but I was messing around with video editing software in college a little over a year ago, put together some Anti-War Videos to music, and stuck them upon YouTube, if anyone wants to have a gander.

http://www.youtube.com/shiveringman


Finally, can someone PM and tell me how to get photos to display like the ones that have been posted ? thanks guys

ojewriej

Inside of a gun turret, Luftwaffe, not sure what plane though



Germans trianing with wooden tanks before war. Due to the restrictions in the Treaty of Versailles, they couldn't use real ones.



German cycle section



Rare picture of the French army. It's rare, because they are actually fighting on it.



Bullseye

k99_64

With the Porsche turret

Morlar

Various inc RAD & Poland Sep 1939
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055324121

Belgium & France wehrmacht campaign photo album
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055313206

FiSe

ojewriej wrote: »

Inside of a gun turret, Luftwaffe, not sure what plane though

He 111
Some of these crash landed in Ireland as well...

ojewriej

FiSe wrote: »

He 111

How do you know?

I'm not doubting you or anything, just wondering whether there are some distinguishin characteristic?

marcsignal

FiSe wrote: »

He 111
Some of these crash landed in Ireland as well...

Yep, its a He 111 alright, but I don't think (judging by the Pilots uniform) that it's German. They were sold to the Spanish, Hungarians, and Romanians, among others.

Hungarian Air Force Link with pics here (scroll down for He 111 pics)
http://109lair.hobbyvista.com/index1024.htm

Link here about the one's that crashed in Ireland
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~dan/war/crashes.htm

and another with great pics of a Ju88 recovery
http://www.ju88.net/

FiSe

He111 is very easy to recognize. Especially that gun mount in the front glasshouse.

Would not argue whether that airman in there is German or not, after all, the flying suit doesn't give too much about nationality:

http://www.monkeydepot.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=12749

marcsignal

FiSe wrote: »

http://www.monkeydepot.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=12749

I WANT One !

ojewriej

This fella takes B&W WWII pictures and fills them with colors. That's his hobby, and even though I find it quite weird, some of his work is pretty good: