Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.

https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Images of the Second World War - Possibly NSFW

08-04-2008 01:05AM

#1

Riamfada

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2002

Posts: 9553

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.

0

Comments

#2 08-04-2008 06:20AM

Dr Strange

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2007

Posts: 2952

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.

0
#3 08-04-2008 08:02AM

FiSe

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 806

...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.

0
#4 08-04-2008 08:27AM

TerrorFirmer

Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 28578

edited till later

0
#5 09-04-2008 08:03AM

FiSe

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 806

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.

0
#6 09-04-2008 10:03AM

TerrorFirmer

Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 28578

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.

0
Advertisement
#7 09-04-2008 10:04AM

TerrorFirmer

Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 28578

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.

0
#8 09-04-2008 10:04AM

TerrorFirmer

Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 28578

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

0
#9 09-04-2008 12:34PM

Krieg

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2007

Posts: 2253

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

0
#10 09-04-2008 12:46PM

FiSe

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 806

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

Nice pictures, btw

0
#11 09-04-2008 07:54PM

motherfunker

Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭

Join Date: February 2008

Posts: 335

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.

0
Advertisement
#12 13-04-2008 11:43PM

motherfunker

Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭

Join Date: February 2008

Posts: 335

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.

0
#13 14-04-2008 08:53AM

ojewriej

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2007

Posts: 1429

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

0
#14 14-04-2008 11:19AM

SpitfireIV

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,574 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2005

Posts: 4372

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.

0
#15 16-04-2008 09:39AM

Lockstep

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,026 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 8550

Thanks folks, some excellent ones there.

Special thanks to Terrorfirmer.

0
#16 22-04-2008 11:31AM

Nordwind

Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭

Join Date: March 2008

Posts: 127

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

Are you sure she's not overcome with emotion?

0
#17 22-04-2008 11:38AM

TerrorFirmer

Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 28578

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.

0
#18 22-04-2008 12:34PM

Nordwind

Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭

Join Date: March 2008

Posts: 127

Yeah she looks happy to me.

0
#19 22-04-2008 01:15PM

ojewriej

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2007

Posts: 1429

Actuall newsreel, german troops in Stalingrad.

0
#20 22-04-2008 02:35PM

TerrorFirmer

Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 28578

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

0
#21 22-04-2008 03:29PM

FiSe

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 806

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.

0
Advertisement
#22 22-04-2008 08:15PM

FiSe

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 806

...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

0
#23 23-04-2008 06:56PM

Dr Strange

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2007

Posts: 2952

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

0
#24 24-04-2008 07:49AM

FiSe

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 806

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..."

0
#25 24-04-2008 08:27AM

ojewriej

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2007

Posts: 1429

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

0
#26 24-04-2008 02:16PM

ojewriej

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2007

Posts: 1429

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?

0
#27 24-04-2008 03:14PM

Dr Strange

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2007

Posts: 2952

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.

0
#28 24-04-2008 06:09PM

ojewriej

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2007

Posts: 1429

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.

0
#29 24-04-2008 06:12PM

Sherifu

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2004

Posts: 17365

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

0
#30 24-04-2008 06:19PM

ojewriej

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2007

Posts: 1429

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

0
Advertisement
#31 24-04-2008 06:20PM

Sherifu

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2004

Posts: 17365

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.

0