Nothing Seems As Pretty As The Past.

histoire-fanatique:

Tribute to Erwin Rommel a.ka The Desert Fox(1891-1944)

It was his leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign that established the legend of the Desert Fox. He is considered to have been one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare in the conflict. He later commanded the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion in Normandy. As one of the few generals who consistently fought the Western Allies (he was never assigned to the Eastern Front), Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer. His Afrikakorps was never accused of war crimes. Soldiers captured during his Africa campaign were reported to have been treated humanely. Furthermore, he ignored orders to kill captured commandos, Jewish soldiers and civilians in all theaters of his command.

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houseofrandom:

Some of the German officers who participated in the 20th July/Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler

Generalfeldmarschall Ludwig Beck, Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris ,Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben, General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht, General der Infanterie von Stülpnagel, Generaloberst Erich Hoepner, Generalleutnant Paul von Hase

(Source: frauleinfuehrer, via houseofrandom)

houseofrandom:

German troops in Belgium, 1940

Found in the album of an SS ‘Einsatzgruppen‘ death-squad soldier; labelled “The Last Jew Of Vinnitsa”. It’s believed that all 28,000 Jews who lived there were killed. 

fuckyeahcanadianforces:

Two soldiers of the Third Canadian Division displaying a captured Nazi flag in Normandy, France.

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German soldiers walk through the tractor factory of Stalingrad - generally agreed to be the location of the heaviest fighting during the siege of the city. 

A woman is punished for collaborating with German soldiers by having her head shaved during the liberation of Europe from Nazi rule. 

Soldiers of the German SS play with a kitten

A German soldier lights his friends cigarette using a flame thrower.