SZ Photo - Fighting in East Prussia, 1944-45

01.01.1944 - Koenigsberg, which was largely spared until autumn 1944 when the Red Army was able to push its offensive to Goldap, was massively attacked form the air and was severely hit. In the...
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01.01.1944 - Koenigsberg, which was largely spared until autumn 1944 when the Red Army was able to push its offensive to Goldap, was massively attacked form the air and was severely hit. The ph...
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01.01.1944 - Koenigsberg, which was largely spared until autumn 1944 when the Red Army was able to push its offensive to Goldap, was massively attacked form the air and was severely hit. The ph...
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01.01.1944 - Koenigsberg, which was largely spared until autumn 1944 when the Red Army was able to push its offensive to Goldap, was massively attacked form the air and was severely hit. The ph...
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01.09.1944 - Reich Youth Leader Artur Axmann with soldiers in advance of the Eastern Front, September 1944. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1944 - A tank which has been shot up stands on the destroyed bridge at the entry to the East Prussian village of Nemmersdorf. Nemmersdorf was reconquered by the German troops, the Red Arm...
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01.01.1944 - Erich Koch (in the bunker), Regional Nazi Party Leader for East Prussia inspects a "one man bunker". The bunkers were created quickly in late autumn, 1944 on the threatened border....
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25.08.1944 - Two "Panther" of the division "Greater Germany" in battle with Russian tanks. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.11.1944 - Panther tank on a street in East Prussia. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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14.10.1944 - Soldiers with machine gun MG 42 in a trench during a battle in East Prussia. An artillery observer tracks with binoculars exploding grenades. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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21.10.1944 - German infantry in a trench before an attack of the Red Army. In the background a StuG III in position. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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07.11.1944 - German soldiers with machine gun MG 42 during combat operations on the railway station grounds of Goldap in East Prussia. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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08.09.1944 - Two soldiers rest behind a bush during the combat in East Prussia. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1945 - Soviet soldiers in urban warfare in the highly competitive city of Koenigsberg. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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29.03.1945 - A banner with the exhortation to hold out 'Our sun does not go down', after Koenigsberg was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army. In the foreground are inhabitants on horses. [XPAEXPO...
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08.03.1945 - A German launchers in action at the Eastern Front in East Prussia during battles with Soviet troops. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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22.03.1945 - A German anti-tank position in front of the city Koenigsberg, which was enclosed by Russian troops. Exhortation to hold out 'We hold Koenigsberg'. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1945 - The body of a German soldier on a snow-covered field at the Vistula Spit (Frische Nehrung) in East Prussia. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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08.11.1944 - Soldiers before a counterattack on the Eastern front. The group leader hands a flare pistol from an armored personnel carrier to one of his men. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.08.1944 - Because of the approaching Red Army troops civilians in East Prussia are called upon to construct positions. On this photo a tank trench is being dug. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.09.1944 - Because of the approaching Red Army troops positions and obstacles are constructed. On the photo is a tank trench, the walls of which are camouflaged with pine trees. [XPAEXPORTID0...
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27.09.1944 - Soldiers of a tank grenadier unit in a position at the Eastern front. In the background are their armored fighting vehicle Sdkfz. 251/1. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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08.11.1944 - During combat in the East Prussian border area, armored fighting vehicle Sdkfz.251/1 gather at the bank of a lake. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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18.12.1944 - Panther tank in Memel. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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31.10.1944 - Soldiers of a People Grenadier Division expect with an antitank gun a Russian attack in a town in East Prussia. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1945 - The commanding officer of Memel, General Hans Gollnik, visits a unit and speaks to the soldiers. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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09.11.1944 - Infantrymen, who have recaptured the town of Goldap, speak with a tank crrew. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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07.11.1944 - German tank after the capture of Goldap in front of a direction sign indicating Treuburg, Bumbinnen, Ebenrode and Heidensee. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1944 - The hitherto largely escaped Koenigsberg was massively attacked from the air and hit hard in the fall of 1944, when the Red Army could perform its offensive towards Goldap. The pho...
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01.01.1944 - The hitherto largely escaped Koenigsberg was massively attacked from the air and hit hard in the fall of 1944, when the Red Army could perform its offensive towards Goldap. Here yo...
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21.09.1944 - Panzer V "Panther" of the division "Grossdeutschland" during a counterattack. The division has stationed at this time in the borderland between Lithuania and Prussia. [XPAEXPORTID0...
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11.04.1945 - Two soldiers of the Wehrmacht wait for the attack of Soviet tanks in a camouflaged position with a "bazooka". [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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