SZ Photo - German para­troop­ers 1933-1945

01.01.1940 - Adolf Hitler with paratroopers who have taken Fort Eben Emael and the bridges over the Albert Canal in Belgium at the start of the West campaign. The paratroopers wear their knight...
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01.04.1941 - German paratroopers have captured English soldiers near Corinth. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Second World War campaign in Greece: With raised arms, capitulate the British soldiers to a patrol the German paratroopers. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Second World War campaign in Greece: a combat patrol of German paratroopers with captured British soldiers on Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.09.1942 - A soldier of the Africa Corps tries to find protection from the sun in a hole in the North African desert. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1944 - Paratroopers fire with a MG 42 on enemy troops on the other side of the Arno. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.09.1943 - An assault gun that was deployed against German troops after Badoglios defection from the alliance with the Axis powers, after it's capture by paratroopers. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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23.10.1944 - The crew of a 15 cm field howitzer 18 prepares the gun to fire. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.11.1942 - A German paratrooper in front of a burning house, which had been set on fire by the Germans on the Eastern Front-Center. From this house of Russian partisans have shot at German so...
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04.10.1944 - Paratroopers who were taken prisoner during the battle of Arnheim wait for their transport. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.02.1943 - An MG squad of paratroopers in Tunisia [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1943 - Two paratroopers of the Wehrmacht fetched an Arab who will show them the structure of the area before them. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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10.06.1941 - Deployment of German paratroopers in Crete in 1941, the paratroopers clean their weapons after the conquest of Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1939 - 'Catching food' in a break during the combat training of young paratroopers in 1939 [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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05.10.1944 - A grenade launcher group of the paratroopers on the Adriatic front in the fight against U.S. troops [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.12.1942 - A paratrooper Kradmeldezug at a patrol task: over rocky terrain there is the rise with weapons and ammunition [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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13.05.1940 - Battle for the fortress Eben Emael in 1940: The sketch shows the floor plan of the group of works Eben Emael, which had the task to prevent a crossing of the Meuse and the Albert C...
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01.12.1942 - A paratrooper Kradmeldezug at a patrol task: on the road, the area is from time to time carefully being scanned. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.12.1943 - A patrol operation of a paratrooper Kradmeldezug in Tunisia [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.05.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: paratroopers get ready for the deployment at the airfield of Heraklion. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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17.06.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: paratroopers who had been deposed in Crete, with an FT device during the battles with the English troops around the Suda Bay. [XPAEXPORTID0000...
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07.06.1941 - Second World War campaign in Greece: use of paratroopers: the command post of Colonel Braeuer during the fighting against the English troops. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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14.09.1944 - Paratroopers during street battles in Northern Italy (Adriatic front) against U.S. troops [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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30.05.1940 - Jump of the paratroopers over Narvik [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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15.05.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: A paratrooper few minutes before landing on Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: German paratroopers get ready for the deployment after their landing in Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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29.05.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: Arrival of the paratroopers in Heraklion in Crete with captured British vehicles. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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07.06.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: a paratrooper in a mountain position drinks from a carboy. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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30.05.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: paratrooper in the camp in Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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18.12.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: Reception of the paratroopers who fought in Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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16.07.1941 - The following officers of the paratroops were awarded the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross for their deployment of Crete: the lieutenants Alfred Genz (top left), K.H. Becker (top r...
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05.06.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: German paratroopers after the seizure of Heraklion in the streets of the city, which has traces of the fierce battles. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - German paratroopers during a short break in Crete [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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15.05.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: German paratroopers in Heraklion after the end of fighting, in which they were trapped nine days by British troops. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Paratroopers have marked an own position through a swastika flag. A paratrooper instructs an air force officer in the situation of their own and the enemy's positions. [XPAEXPORTID...
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20.05.1941 - Second World War campaign in Greece: British soldiers give in a combat patrol of German paratroopers in Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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11.06.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: German paratroopers and airborne troops approaching Chania, which was conquered as one of the first cities in Crete by German troops. [XPAEXPO...
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01.04.1941 - A Greek farmer is taken away his donkey by paratroopers. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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07.03.1944 - A paratroopers troop is being relocated: After putting on the equipment the trunk is being bent in order to control the exact seat of the paratroopers girths (photo by Heinrich Hof...
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01.11.1942 - Paratroopers march through a street in Tunis. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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15.12.1940 - A consolidated, enabled parachute must have on the distraction cable a backup similar to a seal for controlling. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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02.06.1939 - Paratroopers prance on the east-west axis on the occasion of the visit of the Prince Regent pair of Yugoslavia. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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22.06.1938 - A group of paratroopers mounts a Ju 52 on the launching of a jump exercise at the skydiving school in Stendal. [XPAEXPORTID000003]
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20.04.1939 - Also paratroopers troops muster in the great Wehrmacht parade on the occasion of Hitler's 50th Birthday. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1940 - Deployment of paratroopers in Narvik, in order to enhance the trapped German marines and mountain soldiers. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.05.1941 - Second World War, campaign in Greece: German paratroopers after landing in Crete in May 1941. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.05.1941 - Second World War in Greece: The German Air Force attacks Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.08.1944 - During the fighting in Lithuania paratroopers go behind the back of a Tiger tank for cover. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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21.11.1944 - soldier on the right carries an 8.8 cm "Panzerschrieck" gun and the soldier on the left carries a bazooker, [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1930 - Bernhard Ramcke, soldier and officer in the First and Second World War. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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28.10.1942 - Opening of the exhibition "Feldgraue italienische Kuenstler stellen aus". Here the tour of the "honorary guests" through the exhibition. At right "Fallschirmjaeger" (Paratroopers)...
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01.01.1934 - As the first army, the Red Army began with a mass training of the paratroopers to can use them as a separate military unit. The photo from 1934 shows a Soviet jumper equipped with...
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01.01.1934 - As the first army, the Red Army began with a mass training of the paratroopers to can use them as a separate military unit. The photo from 1934 shows the parachutists of the Osoavi...
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01.08.1944 - Paratroopers in a VW jeep on patrol. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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31.01.1945 - Paratrooper engineers storm a farmstead while in combat with British troops. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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04.08.1944 - A paratrooper of the rearguard watches the enemy position on the other side of the Arno from behind a river wall. In the front of the photo is a MG 42. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1940 - Paratroopers (right) of the German armed forces after jumping into Holland, on the way to Rotterdam. On the left are infantrymen. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1940 - A German paratrooper with a machine gun MG 34 during the mission in Belgium and the Netherlands. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1941 - The picture shows a German paratrooper during the combat on the Greek isle of Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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14.02.1942 - A paratrooper attaches the ripcord of his parachute to the track cable in the Junkers Ju 52 transport airplane. The photo was taken during jump training in Germany. [XPAEXPORTID000...
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01.06.1942 - Paratroopers explode a wire barrier in front of a Soviet position during combat in the southern sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1940 - Hermann Goering awards the Knight's Cross to officers involved in the combat in Rotterdam and at the bridges of Moerdijk, from left: Colonel Bruno Braeuer, Commander of Paratrooper...
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05.02.1939 - MG gunners of the paratroopers during an exercise with a machine gun 34. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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05.02.1939 - MG gunners of the paratroopers during an exercise with a heavy machine gun 34. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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19.06.1943 - Paratroopers with their jumping equipment on the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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26.10.1940 - General of the Flyers Kurt Student inspects a line of paratroopers. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1940 - Paratroopers at the end of fighting in Belgium, 1940. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.02.1939 - Paratroopers of Paratrooper Regiment 1 jump from a Junkers Ju 52 during an exercise at the parachuting school in Stendal. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.02.1939 - Paratroopers of Paratrooper Regiment 1 jump from a Junkers Ju 52 during an exercise at the parachuting school in Stendal. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1939 - A maintenance inspector of the paratroopers presents a parachute in the chamber. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1940 - A paratrooper in jumping gear shows the position before jumping in the open door of an airplane. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.02.1939 - A non-commissioned officer pushes a paratrooper in a harness in a swinging movement during instruction. The soldier will later be released and will have to roll on to the padded fl...
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01.06.1938 - A paratrooper is pulled over the ground of a training field by his parachute, which is being blown by a wind machine, in a "ground dragging exercise". [XPAEXPORTID000003]
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01.06.1938 - Parachutes are suspended and checked for damages before packing. Prospective paratroopers will be trained in them. [XPAEXPORTID000003]
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01.06.1938 - Paratroopers during jumping and landing practice in a hall. [XPAEXPORTID000003]
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01.06.1938 - Prospective paratroopers learn with jumps before the instructor, to intercept the impact of landing with feet and knees together followed by rolling. [XPAEXPORTID000003]
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10.02.1939 - Prospective paratroopers practice 'ground forward roll' above the comrades as preparation and warm-up for the jump training. In the background a Junkers Ju 52 [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1939 - An MG crew during a training exercise. In the background, two soldiers operate a machine gun MG 34 on tripod, in front the shooter III is scouting. On the back he carries a spare b...
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05.02.1939 - Soldiers of the Paratroopers Regiment 1 practice at the Parachute School at Stendal an air landing. They carry weapons and ammunition from a shipping container dropped with a parac...
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10.02.1939 - A parachutist rifleman shows a jump from a Junker Ju 52 standing on the ground. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1944 - At the command post of General Eugen Meindl (right) the Field Marshal Rommel leads a long talk on the use of paratroopers of the Army to repel the Allied invasion. [XPAEXPORTID0000...
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01.01.1940 - Paratroopers jump from a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane to attack a target in Belgium. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1940 - German paratroopers are parachuting from a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane during a mission in Belgium. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - The commander of the combat group deployed in Heraklion, Colonel Bruno Braeuer (right with peaked cap), with officers of his staff during combat. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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04.10.1936 - While Adolf Hitler attended the Harvest Celebration on the Bueckeberg, young paratroopers of the armed forces gave a demonstration. Soldiers jump from Junkers Ju 52 transport plane...
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22.06.1938 - During an exercise, paratroopers jump from the door of a Junker Ju 52. [XPAEXPORTID000003]
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01.01.1941 - Occupation of Crete: German paratroopers shoot hostages after their attack on German soldiers. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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10.05.1940 - German paratroopers wave at a Stuka fighter plane of the type Junkers Ju 87. The Stuka war planes had previously supported the paratroopers during the fighting for the bridges acro...
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24.08.1944 - Paratroopers on a tank VI "Tiger" in Lithuania. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1940 - Adolf Hitler confers a decoration on paratroopers who were involved in the action against the Belgian fort Eben Emael. The paratroopers have received the Iron Cross in the backgrou...
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01.05.1941 - Paratroopers open after landing a gun container and take out carbines and an automatic rifle. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Paratroopers with a machine gun MG 34 in the southeast of the island. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Paratroopers attack an enemy position. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - A patrol leader observes during the fights on the Greek island of Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Paratroopers proceed through agaves undergrowth against British positions. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Paratroopers rest during the battles for the Greek city of Heraklion on Crete . [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.05.1941 - Paratroopers land on parachutes in Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Paratroopers in the fight against an enemy position. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.05.1941 - Paratroopers land on parachutes in Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.11.1942 - Paratroopers march singing through a street in Tunis. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.12.1942 - Paratroopers climb their way into a rocky valley during a patrol action. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.07.1944 - A paratrooper pays carefully attention to the opponent's low-flying during the trip. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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27.06.1944 - Paratroopers on an anti-tank gun during fights in the area of Carentan. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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22.09.1944 - On a bridge which is foreseen to be blasted on the western front stands a double guard of the paratroopers. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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22.09.1944 - German paratroopers fight with an air defense system of the opponent tank. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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23.08.1944 - Paratroopers march to a new position on the front in Lithuania. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.10.1943 - SS Storm Command Leader Otto Skorzeny (far left) with members of a special unit of German SS-paratroopers, who were involved in the liberation of Benito Mussolini, during a ceremon...
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12.09.1943 - Benito Mussolini after the liberation from his prison on the Gran Sasso mountain in the middle of his liberators - Members of a special unit of German paratroopers under Otto Skorz...
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09.04.1940 - A German paratrooper lands in the Norwegian city Narvik during the Norway and Denmark campaign called 'Operation Weseruebung'. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.07.1941 - Hermann Goring honors in a headquarters on the eastern Front paratroopers for their deployment during the conquest of Crete. As listeners stand from right Colonel General Ernst Ude...
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01.07.1941 - The paratroopers General Kurt Student (right), introduces to Hermann Goring paratroopers who have proved themselves in the battle for Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.12.1942 - A paratrooper of the Africa Corps rides a camel. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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19.03.1939 - Parachutists parade before General Johannes Blaskowitz on the Day of the Wehrmacht on the Wenceslas Square in Prague. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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25.05.1941 - A commander of a paratrooper unit (left) deployed in Corinth, receives a combat report from a messenger. In the background one of the weapon containers dropped on parachutes. [XPAE...
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01.01.1941 - General Field Marshal Wilhelm List (2nd from right) in conversation with the commander of the paratrooper regiment 2 Colonel Alfred Sturm (left). His soldiers were deployed along t...
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01.05.1941 - During the Greek campaign, German paratroopers jump over Crete in 'Operation Merkur'. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - the invasion was launched under the code-name 'Unternehmen Merkur' ('Operation Mercury'), Greek rebels and Allied forces defended the island which fell to the Germans, Second World...
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01.05.1941 - After their landing on the island of Crete, German paratroopers during 'Operation Merkur' start their advance in a car, which they have covered with a swastika flag so that their o...
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01.05.1941 - In the battle for Crete a German Junkers 52 transport plane is shot by British defenses and crashes. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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25.05.1941 - German paratroppers during a break after the capture of the Corinthian Isthmus during the Greek campaign. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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26.05.1941 - German paratroopers after the capture of the chanel of Corinth. The city of Corinth was handed over to the Germans unconditionally by the mayor and the chief of police shortly afte...
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20.04.1941 - German paratroopers landing at the chanel of Corinth during the Greek campaign. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - German paratroopers secure the street near Corinth after landing at the Corinthian Isthmus during the Greek campaign. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - In the Greek campaign German paratroopers stand on an airfield at their Junkers 52 transport planes ready for action. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.04.1941 - After landing at the chanel of Corinth, a commander dictates new instructions at his command post. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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27.05.1941 - German paratroopers at a short break in the fighting for Corinth during the Greek campaign. A soldier studies the map and certifies their position. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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26.05.1941 - After they land at the Corinthian Isthmus, German paratroopers take English soldiers (with raised hands) prisoner. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - Supply for the German troops of 'Operation Merkur' is being flown in to a temporary frontline airbase in the western part of Crete. The Junkers Ju 52 transport plane has flown in m...
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01.06.1941 - Paratroopers attacking on Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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07.06.1941 - German soldiers and officers of 'Operation Merkur' at the command post of Colonel Braeuer on Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - German paratroopers of 'Operation Merkur' jump over their theater of operations in Crete. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.05.1941 - German paratroopers of 'Operation Merkur' attack a trench on Crete during the Greek campaign. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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25.05.1941 - Immediately after landing on the Corinthian Isthmus, a German paratrooper participating in 'Operation Merkur' prepares his gun to fire and takes up an attack position. [XPAEXPORTID...
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01.01.1940 - German paratroopers land during the campaign in Norway and Denmark, called 'the action Weser Exercise' in Norwegian Narvik, for the action against British and Norwegians. [XPAEXPOR...
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01.01.1940 - Bounce of a paratrooper during the battles for the Norwegian town Narvik. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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04.10.1936 - On the occasion of the harvest festival 1936 on the Bueckeberg members of the Luftwaffe perform a few parachute jumps. This festival was called Reichserntedankfest and was celebrat...
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02.06.1939 - Along the "East-West Axis" in Berlin (today: Unter den Linden - Strasse des 17. Juni - Ernst-Reuter-Platz - Bismarckstrasse) was held a parade in honor of the visit of Prince Paul...
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20.04.1939 - Troops of the Wehrmacht parade along the Berlin East-West Axis during the celebrations organized for Hitler's 50th birthday. A crowd consisting of SS men, SA men, members of the We...
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20.04.1939 - Troops of the Wehrmacht parade along the Berlin East-West Axis during the celebrations organized for Hitler's 50th birthday. A crowd consisting of SS men, SA men, members of the We...
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01.01.1939 - At a maneuver of the paratroopers, two soldiers are lying in position and discuss the action. This is a still from an UFA movie, probably from the educational film "Fallschirmjaege...
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04.02.1939 - The picture shows a maneuver of paratroopers. A soldier with gas mask comes out of the artificial fog. This is intended to simulate an enemy gas attack. He carries a submachine gun...
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04.02.1939 - The picture shows paratroopers during a maneuver. After their landing, they simulate the defense of an air raid on their position. With machine guns of the type MG 34 guns and of t...
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04.02.1939 - The picture shows paratroopers during a maneuver. They went in position with a light machine gun of the type MG 34. One of the soldiers operates a rangefinder. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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04.02.1939 - The picture shows paratroopers during a maneuver. They went in position with a machine gun of the type MG 34. One of the soldiers operates a rangefinder. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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04.02.1939 - The picture shows paratroopers during a maneuver. They run with ammunition boxes and an MG 34 through a military training area, in the background smoke obscures the view. [XPAEXPOR...
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04.02.1939 - Soldiers of the parachute troops at a maneuver. They went in position with a light machine gun of the type MG 34. In the background one of the parachutes lies on the ground. [XPAEX...
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01.01.1939 - The picture shows paratroopers during a maneuver. They run with ammunition boxes and an MG 34 through a military training area, in the background smoke obscures the view. This pict...
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