The Second World War was the most cruel and bloody in the history of mankind. She dragged dozens of countries and peoples into her deadly cycle. And, seeing with your own eyes documentary evidence, pictures of the death of people, impassively recorded by the camera, it is impossible not to shudder. It's hard to say what's scarier in this collection - pictures of mass slaughter or a terrible, unstoppable moment of death of a single person.
Katyn
Extraction of bodies from a mass grave in the Katyn forest. According to documents, more than 21,000 Poles were shot here - both captured officers and political prisoners. Only a few decades after the tragedy, Russia officially recognized the guilt of the NKVD in this atrocity.
Warsaw ghetto
Residents of the Warsaw ghetto before being shot. Murders in the ghetto took place every day: they killed the old and the infirm, children and women... In addition, terrible crowding and hunger reigned in the ghetto. Not wanting to humbly wait for death, the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto revolted. From April 19 to May 16, 1943, fierce fighting took place on the faces of the ghetto. The Germans brought Jewish units into the territory of the ghetto and, cutting off quarter after quarter, brutally suppressed the resistance. In total, more than 7,000 rebels were killed during this time.
Massacre at Malmedy
During the fighting in the Ardennes near the Belgian village of Malmedy, 84 American soldiers were captured. All of them were shot by the SS men right there, in the field. Several prisoners managed to escape. They brought the news of the massacre in Malmedy to the American command.
Shark attack on Indianapolis crew
On July 28, 1945, the American warship Indianapolis left the port towards Japan, having on board part of the details of the atomic bomb, which was planned to be dropped on enemy territory. However, a day later the Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank. But that was only the beginning of the nightmare. Sailors caught in the water were attacked by a flock of hungry sharks. According to very rough estimates, up to 150 people died from the teeth of hungry predators. The death of the Indianapolis sailors is considered the most mass death in history from the teeth of sharks. In the picture, a doctor examines the terrible wounds from shark teeth in one of the survivors.
Massacre in Nanjing
Murder on Nanjing Street in 1938. When the Japanese captured Nanjing during the Sino-Japanese War, they, irritated by the stubborn resistance of the Chinese, behaved with unparalleled cruelty. Almost a hundred thousand soldiers who surrendered were shot. Soldiers attacked civilians and beat, tortured, maimed and killed them. The number of women raped and then killed ran into the thousands. In total, up to 600,000 Chinese died during the Sino-Japanese War.
Leningrad blockade
During the blockade, the corpses on the street were such a familiar part of the landscape that no one paid attention to them.
Bombing of Dresden
The stubborn bombing of Dresden in 1945, which practically razed the city to the ground, is still considered by many to be a humanitarian crime of the Anglo-American allies. In Dresden culture in general, which, alas, there were no strategic and military enterprises, but there were many masterpieces of world architecture and culture, with which, alas, humanity had to say goodbye forever.
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad is considered the largest land battle in the history of wars. The losses of the Red Army in killed and wounded amounted to more than a million people. The Germans had the same losses. Nothing human seems to be left in the eyes of this German prisoner.
Kamikaze
At the end of the war, in 1945, the first detachments of kamkaze pilots appeared in Japan, who obeyed the call of Emperor Hirohito to die with honor for their homeland. As a rule, young, often poorly trained suicide pilots sent their cars to the bases and ships of the Allies in pacific ocean. The bitter irony lies in the fact that kamikaze strikes did not always reach their goal - both because of the allied air defenses and because of their own little preparation. Fanatic youths died in vain.
"Sea Wolves"
"Sea wolves" during the Battle of the Atlantic called detachments of German submarines, scouring the ocean and sinking both military and merchant ships with equal ruthlessness. During the war years, the "sea wolves" sank about 4,000 ships, on which about 75 thousand people died, because there was practically no rescue in the open ocean for people. In the picture - a ship torpedoed by one of the "sea wolves" goes under water.
Italians in Ethiopia
Even before the outbreak of World War II, in 1935, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on Ethiopia. Mussolini deliberately chose the weakest opponent. For example, the Italian army had 1,400 tanks and aircraft, while the Ethiopian army (pictured) had only two dozen pieces of equipment, and the army, for the most part, was still armed with spears. During the fighting, about a million Ethiopians died.
Polish cavalry against German tanks
Desperate and suicidal attacks by the Polish cavalry on German tanks led to mass death Polish soldiers. In the photo: the consequences of such an attack.
Mass killings in Odessa
A few days after the capture of Odessa, a powerful mine exploded in the headquarters, planted by the retreating Soviet troops. This explosion was the signal for the beginning of the massacre organized by the Romanians in Odessa. The repressions primarily affected the Gypsies and Jews. In a few weeks, more than 15,000 Gypsies and more than 34,000 Jews were killed in the city. The picture shows one of the places of mass executions.
Crocodile attack on Ramri Island
During the battle on Ramri Island, about a thousand surviving Japanese, pressed by the British troops, under the cover of night, decided to escape from the enemy pursuing them through the swamps. It was a fatal decision. Witnesses say that wild screams and rifle shots were heard from the swamp all night. By morning, only about 50 survivors came ashore. According to them, the rest were dragged under the water by voracious local crocodiles.
Tragedy in the village of Stavelot
The command of the SS unit that occupied the Belgian village of Stavelot accused its inhabitants of hiding American soldiers. The Americans were not found in the village, but angry SS men, confident that the locals had deceived them, shot all the villagers - 67 men, 47 women and 23 children. In the picture - the place of execution in Stavelot.
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor F.B. Komal
Behind Lately many publications appeared, the authors of which try to explain the reasons for the defeat of the Soviet Army in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. Many of these researchers rightly believe that one of the reasons was the massive repression of military personnel in 1937-1938. However, along with reasonable assessments of the events that took place then, there are also various conjectures and unsubstantiated assertions. Let's try to consider this problem strictly on the basis of documents.
First of all, we note that through the efforts of the Party and the government, a wide network of military educational institutions was created, which ensured the production of a sufficient number of military personnel of all specialties and their high-quality training. As the threat of an attack on our country grew and new military formations and units were created in connection with this, the network of military educational institutions expanded, which was especially characteristic of the prewar years.
The number of military educational institutions grew from year to year, the number of students in them increased, as evidenced by the data on the development of military schools of the ground forces in the period from 1937 to 1940 (see Table 1). And the fact that the growth of military educational institutions contributed to an increase in the release of trained officers can be seen from Table 2. The dynamics of the influx of new officers into the army is shown in Table 3. From schools and colleges Air Force it was released: in 1938 - 8713 people, in 1939 - 12337, in 1940 - 27 918. Despite this, the chronic shortage of commanding staff in the army could not be eliminated. By the beginning of 1940, it was 60,000 people.
Table 1. The development of military schools of the ground forces in the period from 1937 to 1940
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Name of schools |
1937 |
1938 |
1939 |
1940 |
|
Infantry |
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|
Infantry |
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Small arms and machine guns |
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|
Small arms and mortar |
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|
Total peh. schools |
10/9360 |
14/13800 |
14/14250 |
59/94800 |
|
Cavalry |
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|
Artillery |
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|
Artillery of great power |
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|
Corps Artillery |
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|
divisional artillery |
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|
Artillery VET |
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|
Anti-aircraft artillery |
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|
Total artillery schools |
14/9660 |
20/18550 |
20/21600 |
20/26800 |
|
Art. weapons tech. |
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|
Art. tool intelligence FOR |
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Armored |
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|
Tank |
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|
Automotive |
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|
Tractor |
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|
Tank technical |
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|
Total ABT schools |
7/5450 |
9/8750 |
9/9400 |
9/14000 |
|
Communication schools |
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Engineering |
||||
|
Engineering |
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|
Sapper |
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|
Total engineering schools |
1/1320 |
2/1900 |
2/2300 |
4/5600 |
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Chemical |
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Topographic |
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Medical |
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|
Veterinary |
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|
Military economic |
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|
TOTAL |
49/36085 |
63/59150 |
64/65250 |
114/169620 |
*Including the Moscow Railway School for 500 cadets.
Note: The numerator shows the number of schools, the denominator shows the number of cadets.
Table 2. Number of graduates of military schools by branches of service for the period from 1937 to 1940*
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military schools |
1937 |
1938 |
1939 |
1940 |
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Infantry |
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Artillery |
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Cavalry |
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Armored |
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Engineering |
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Topographic |
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Military Communication Services (VOSO) |
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Chemical |
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Technical and others |
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Administrative and economic |
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Medical |
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Veterinary |
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TOTAL |
8508 |
20316 |
35290 |
35501 |
Table 3. The number of new officers who entered the troops *
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years |
from the academies |
from schools |
from junior lieutenant courses |
restored in the army and taken from the reserve |
Total |
Second World War… People tend to forget history… About what terrible events haunted the whole world throughout the Second World War, they remember less and less. And many representatives of the younger generation do not even know the facts, dates and figures! This is extremely sad, because history needs to be known in order not to repeat its mistakes.
We present to your attention 11 creepy shots from the Second World War that everyone needs to see in order to realize the horror of wars and remember that the war that never happened is good!
1 The raft from the Armidale
On the first day of winter 1942, Japanese fighters attacked the Australian patrol ship"Armidale". Most of those people who were on the ship died immediately, but some survivors managed to make a raft from the remains of the ship. About 20 people fit on the raft. A seaplane patrol spotted the raft on December 8, taking this photo, but rescuers were unable to splash down due to high waves. Unfortunately, neither the next day, nor ever the raft could not be found ...
2 Punishment for General Dostler
On December 1, 1945, General of the German Infantry Anton Dostler was executed. He led the destruction of an American sabotage group, for which he received a death sentence, the execution of which was carefully photographed and filmed.
In November 1942, in the forests of Eastern Karelia, a Finnish officer shoots a Soviet intelligence agent who, despite the proximity of death, smiles into the camera. The photo was made public only in 2006.
Frozen alive Germans.
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Mountain rangers of the Wehrmacht are going to raise the Nazi flag in Crete.
Burning German vehicles (armored personnel carrier) on the road near the village of St Aubin-d'Appenai on the road between Alencon and Mortagne in Normandy.
The burning American aircraft carrier Bunker Hill after two Japanese kamikaze attacks fired 30 seconds apart. Bogibli 372, 264 soldiers were injured.
Burning bomber B-17 "Flying Fortress" (LockheedVega B-17F-20-VE, serial number 42-5786) of the 840th squadron of the 483rd bomber group of the US Air Force in flight over the Yugoslav city of Nis.
Burning bomber B-25 "Mitchell", "Jaunty Jo" ("Jaunty Joe") of the 345th bomber group, shot down by anti-aircraft artillery during the bombing of a Japanese oil refinery.
The German heavy cruiser ("pocket battleship") "Admiral Graf Spee" burning at the mouth of the La Plata River after it was blown up by the crew.
Grenadiers of the SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" change position in the battle near Warsaw, running past a burning Soviet T-34 tank.
A group of Red Army sappers in Belgrade immediately after the end of the fighting for the city. Behind them - the chamber "Albania" - this is the very center of the city.
A group of German soldiers captured during the Battle of Moscow. Winter 1941 -1942
A group of scouts from the divisional reconnaissance of the 27th Guards Rifle Division in the courtyard of a house in Poland.
Group photo of the crew of the Pe-8 bomber No. 4214 in front of their aircraft. 11.1945
Günter Rall is the third most successful German ace of World War II. On account of his 275 air victories (272 on the Eastern Front), won in 621 sorties. Rall himself was shot down 8 times.
Long-range naval reconnaissance and patrol aircraft, also used as a transport aircraft. Captured by the Americans. Members of the German crew leave their plane, giving way to American pilots.
Danish pilot Jørgen Thalbitzer (1920-1943) on the wing of his Spitfire Vb fighter (serial number BL855) at RAF base Koltishal.
Two American carrier-based Curtiss SB2C Helldiver bombers are landing on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10).
Two German soldiers take a Red Army soldier prisoner.
Two German soldiers with a captured PPSh in a trench near Hill 200 near the village of Polunino, Kalinin Region.
Two partisans from the Bryansk region. The teenager on the right has a captured German MP-40 submachine gun.
Two Soviet partisans inspect a captured German MG-34 machine gun.
Two soldiers of the German division "Hermann Goering" communicate with a Romanian soldier.
Two Soviet soldiers at the sign "30 kilometers to Berlin".
Two Soviet officers on the steps of the Reichstag.
Two British Arab soldiers stand in front of tents near Bersheb in Palestine.
A medical orderly girl accompanies a wounded soldier in Stalingrad.
Demobilized soldiers of the 4th shock army at the Varshavsky railway station in Leningrad.
Divisional scouts of the 27th Guards Rifle Division Pavel Silentyev and Viktor Krivonogov.
Divisional scouts of the 27th Guards Rifle Division. February or March 1945.
Dietrich Hrabak became the first German fighter pilot to be shot down during the Second World War (09/03/1939, Chrabak's fighter was shot down by the gunner of the Polish light bomber PZL R.23).
Berlin is 77 kilometers away. Smoke break of Soviet soldiers.
A Don Cossack from the German troops firing a cannon during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
Interrogation of a German soldier taken prisoner by scouts of the 49th Guards Rifle Division.
Interrogation of a captured Soviet lieutenant. May 1942, the region of the Rzhev-Vyazemsky salient.
Residents of the Czech town of Havlov Brod collect things that can be useful on the farm at the battlefields. In the photo - German self-propelled guns StuG III.
A salvo from a battery of German rocket launchers Nebelwerfer 41 near Demyansk.
Disguised thirty-fours, January 1942, Rzhev area. The photograph is interesting in that one of the crew left a rifle on the armor, as it did not fit in the tank.
Frozen alive Germans.
The German calculation serves the rocket mortar "Nebelwerfer 41".
The German calculation of the MG-34 machine gun, led by a non-commissioned officer, is preparing to throw to a new position in Stalingrad.
A German soldier with the rank of Oberfeldwebel is photographed leaning on the barrel of an abandoned Soviet KV-2 tank. The sleeve badge of a radio engineer is visible.
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1. Bound Jews guarded by Lithuanian auxiliary guards. 1941
2. A column of Jewish women and children under the escort of the Lithuanian "self-defense".
Shooting time: 1941
Location: Lithuania, USSR
3. Jewish residents of the city of Siauliai before being sent to execution near the Kuzhiai station.
Shooting time: July 1941
Location: Lithuania, USSR
4. The famous photograph of the execution of the last Jew of Vinnitsa, taken by an officer of the German Einsatzgruppe, which was engaged in the execution of persons subject to destruction (primarily Jews). The title of the photo was written on its back.
Vinnitsa was occupied by German troops on July 19, 1941. Some of the Jews living in the city managed to evacuate. The remaining Jewish population was imprisoned in the ghetto. On July 28, 1941, 146 Jews were shot in the city. In August, the shootings resumed. On September 22, 1941, most of the prisoners of the Vinnitsa ghetto were destroyed (about 28,000 people). Craftsmen, workers and technicians, whose work was necessary for the German occupation authorities, were left alive.
5. Sending Slovak Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Shooting time: March 1942
Location: Poprad station, Slovakia
6. Rabbis in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
7 Jewish rabbis in the Warsaw ghetto
8. SS soldiers guard a column of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto. Liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto after the uprising.
Photo from Jurgen Stroop's report to Heinrich Himmler in May 1943. The German original headline reads: "Forcibly pushed out of the shelter." One of the most famous photographs from World War II.
9. Fay Shulman with Soviet partisans in the forest. Faye Shulman was born into a large family on November 28, 1919 in Poland. On August 14, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto, including Fay's parents, sister, and younger brother. They spared only 26 people, including Faye. Faye later escaped into the woods and joined a partisan group composed primarily of escaped Soviet prisoners of war.
———————Prisoners—-
10. Line of prisoners of war of the Red Army.
1941
The propagandist caption to the photograph read: “Among the captured Soviet soldiers, there is a woman - even she stopped resisting. This is a “woman-soldier” and at the same time a Soviet commissar, who forced the Soviet soldiers to fiercely resist to the last bullet.
11. German patrol is caught disguised Soviet soldiers. Kyiv, September 1941
Shooting time: September 1941
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR
12. Killed Soviet prisoners of war on the streets of Kyiv. One of them is dressed in a tunic and riding breeches, the other is in underwear. Both are barefoot, bare feet in the mud - they walked barefoot. The dead have emaciated faces. Eyewitnesses recall that when the prisoners were driven through the streets of Kyiv, the escorts shot those who could not walk.
The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kyiv by the German military photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German army that captured the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.
13. Soviet prisoners of war, under the supervision of the SS, cover with earth the section of Babi Yar, where the executed lie. The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kyiv by the German military photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German army that captured the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.
Babi Yar is a tract in Kyiv, which received notoriety as a place of mass executions of civilians and prisoners of war carried out by the German occupation forces. Here, 752 patients of the psychiatric hospital named after M. Ivan Pavlov, at least 40 thousand Jews, about 100 sailors of the Dnieper detachment of the Pinsk military flotilla, arrested partisans, political workers, underground workers, NKVD workers, 621 members of the OUN (A. Melnik’s faction), at least five gypsy camps. According to various estimates, from 70,000 to 200,000 people were shot at Babi Yar in 1941-1943.
Half-covered trees and bushes at the bottom testify that the slopes of the ravine were blown up. Some of the prisoners are in civilian clothes. These are probably those who managed to change clothes, escaping from captivity, but were identified. Along the edges of the yard are SS guards, with rifles on their shoulders, with helmets on their belts.
14. Soviet soldiers who were captured near Vyazma. October 1941.
Shooting time: October 1941
15. Captured Soviet Colonel. Barvenkovsky boiler. May 1942.
Near the city of Barvenkovo, Kharkov region, at the end of May 1942, the 6th and 57th Soviet armies were surrounded. As a result of an unsuccessful offensive, 170 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army were killed and captured, including the commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General A. Gorodnyansky, and the commander of the 57th Army, Lieutenant General K. Podlas.
Shooting time: May 1942
16. A captured Red Army soldier showing the Germans commissars and communists.
17. POWs of the Red Army in the camp.
18. Soviet prisoners of war. In the center are two wounded.
19. German guard gives his dogs to play with the "live toy".
20. Soviet workers in forced labor at a mining enterprise in Boyten (Upper Silesia) during a break.
Shooting time: 1943
Location: Germany
21. Captured Red Army soldiers at work in winter.
22. Captive Lieutenant General A.A. Vlasov, future head Russian Liberation Army, being interrogated by Colonel General Lindemann after surrendering to German captivity. August 1942
Shooting time: August 1942
23. Soviet prisoners of war with German officers in Germany. Disposal of unexploded bombs.
24. A Soviet prisoner of war, after the complete liberation of the Buchenwald camp by American troops, points to a former guard who brutally beat the prisoners.
Shooting time: 04/14/1945
25. A US Army doctor examines a Soviet forced laborer with tuberculosis. He was driven away for forced labor in Germany at the coal mines in the city of Dortmund.
Shooting time: 04/30/1945
26. Soviet child next to the murdered mother. Concentration camp for the civilian population "Ozarichi". Belarus, the town of Ozarichi, Domanovichsky district, Polesye region. March 1944
Shooting time: March 1944
27. Released children from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Shooting time: January 1945
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28. Captured German soldiers in Leningrad.
Shooting time: 1942
Location: Leningrad
29. The French from the SS and Wehrmacht units in front of General Leclerc from the Free French
French prisoners from the SS and Wehrmacht units in front of General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd Free French Armored Division.
The prisoners behaved with dignity and even defiantly. When General Leclerc called them traitors and said: "How could you French wear someone else's uniform?" one of them replied: "You yourself wear someone else's uniform - American!" (the division was equipped by the Americans). They say this angered Leclerc, and he ordered the prisoners to be shot.
30. German prisoners of war in line for the issuance of food. South of France.
Shooting time: September 1944
Location: France
31. German prisoners of war are being escorted to the Majdanek concentration camp. In front of the prisoners, the remains of the prisoners of the death camp lie on the ground, and the crematorium ovens are also visible. Outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin.
Shooting time: 1944
Location: Lublin, Poland
32. The return of German prisoners of war from Soviet captivity. The Germans arrived at the Friedland border transit camp.
Friedland.
Shooting time: 1955
Location: Friedland, Germany
——————-Hitler Youth———-
33. Captured young German soldiers from the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" under the escort of the military police of the 3rd US Army. These guys were taken prisoner in December 1944 during the Allied operation in the Ardennes.
Shooting time: 01/07/1945
34. Fifteen-year-old German anti-aircraft gunner from the Hitler Youth - Hans Georg Henke (Hans Georg Henke), captured by soldiers of the 9th US Army in the city of Giessen, Germany.
Shooting time: 03/29/1945
Location: Giessen, Germany
35. Fourteen-year-old German teenagers, soldiers from the Hitler Youth, taken prisoner by units of the 3rd US Army in April 1945. Berstadt, province of Hesse, Germany.
Shooting time: April 1945
Location: Berstadt, Germany
36. Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery awards young members of the Hitler Youth. This is one of the last photographs of Hitler. In the center, awarded with iron crosses of the 2nd class, young natives of Silesia: second from right - 12-year-old Alfred Czech, third from right - 16-year-old Willy Hubner (Wilhelm Hubner), the latter is also known from a photograph with Dr. Goebbels in Lauban.
Shooting time: 03/23/1945
37. Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery awards young members of the Hitler Youth.
38. A boy from the Hitler Youth armed with a Panzerfaust grenade launcher. The so-called "Last Hope of the Third Reich".
39. Sergeant Francis Daggertt with a German soldier, the soldier is only 15 years old. Such in the German city of Kronach caught a dozen and a half.
Shooting time: Kronach, Germany
Location: 04/27/1945
40. A column of prisoners on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground, "Germany's last hope" are boys from the Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm.
Shooting time: May 1945
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41. Soviet children clean the boots of German soldiers. Bialystok, November 1942
Shooting time: November 1942
Location: Bialystok, Belarus, USSR
42. 13-year-old partisan scout Fedya Moshchev. The author's annotation to the photo - "They found a German rifle for the boy"; it's probably a standard Mauser 98K with the stock cut off to make it easier for the boy to handle.
Shooting time: October 1942
43. The commander of the rifle battalion, Major V. Romanenko (in the center), tells the Yugoslav partisans and residents of the village of Starchevo (near Belgrade) about the military affairs of the young intelligence officer - corporal Vitya Zhayvoronka. Back in 1941, near the city of Nikolaev, Vitya joined a partisan detachment, in 1943 he voluntarily joined one of the units of the Red Army that stormed Dnepropetrovsk, and was awarded the Order of the Red Star for participating in battles with the Nazis on Yugoslav soil. 2nd Ukrainian Front.
Stars. 2nd Ukrainian Front.
Shooting time: October 1944
Location: Starčevo, Yugoslavia
44. Young partisan Pyotr Gurko from the detachment "For the power of the Soviets." Pskov-Novgorod partisan zone.
Shooting time: 1942
45. The commander of a partisan detachment presents the medal "For Courage" to a young partisan scout. The fighter is armed with a 7.62 mm Mosin rifle.
Shooting time: 1942
46. Soviet teenage partisan Kolya Lyubichev from the partisan unit A.F. Fedorov with a captured German 9mm MP-38 submachine gun in a winter forest.
Nikolai Lyubichev survived the war and lived to a ripe old age.
Shooting time: 1943
47. Portrait of 15-year-old reconnaissance partisan Misha Petrov from the Stalin Detachment with a captured German 9-mm MP-38 submachine gun. The fighter is girded with a Wehrmacht soldier's belt, behind the boot is a Soviet anti-personnel grenade RGD-33.
Shooting time: 1943
Location: Belarus, USSR
48. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky with comrades in Berlin.
Shooting time: May 1945
Location: Berlin, Germany
49. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky with comrades in Berlin
Lieutenant (?) Nikolai Rubin, senior lieutenant Grigory Lobarchuk, corporal Volodya Tarnovsky and senior sergeant Nikolai Dementyev.
50. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky puts an autograph on the column of the Reichstag
The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky puts his autograph on the column of the Reichstag. He wrote: "Seversky Donets - Berlin", and signed - for himself, the regiment commander and his brother-soldier, who supported him from below: "Artillerymen Doroshenko, Tarnovsky and Sumtsov."
51. Son of the regiment.
52. Sergeant S. Weinshenker and Technician Sergeant William Topps with the son of Regiment 169 Air Base special purpose. Name unknown, age - 10 years old, served as an assistant to a weapons technician. Poltava airfield.
Shooting time: 1944
Location: Poltava, Ukraine, USSR
