SZ Photo - Life during the war
Even in wartime normal everyday life goes on: summer vacations, leisure, sports and entertainment. But family life during wartime is also characterised by separation and farewell, evacuation of children, furlough, marriage ceremonies and death notices. - This selection contains pictures from our partner agency Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.
02.06.1943 - Tankers and armored workers enjoy their leave from the front in small groups together with their wives and girlfriends. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.06.1943 - While on holiday in Seefeld in Tyrol two tankers with a female friend go on a mountain hike. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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17.08.1943 - Members of the BDM (League of German Girls) help the NSV (National Socialist People's Welfare)train station service with the care of mothers who are traveling to the countryside wi...
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17.08.1943 - A member of the BDM (League of German Girls), which was entrusted by the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt - NSV (National Socialist People's Welfare) to care for mothers and t...
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17.08.1943 - Members of the BDM (League of German Girls) help the NSV (National Socialist People's Welfare) train station service to care for mothers traveling under the auspices of the 'Kinder...
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23.01.1943 - The Governor General of occupied Poland, Hans Frank, at a train with children being evacuated by the 'Kinderlandverschickung' (evacuation of children to the countryside). [XPAEXPOR...
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01.09.1943 - Children at the window in a home for young girls in Ettal in Bavaria. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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07.09.1941 - Children, who were evacuated to Pomerania because of air attacks, are greeted by a brass band at a train station in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1942 - With their transport tags around their necks, children are going to the train station. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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17.08.1943 - Members of the BDM (League of German Girls) help the NSV (National Socialist People's Welfare) train station service to care for the mothers and children evacuating through the Kin...
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17.08.1943 - Parents wave to the departing train which is carrying children from Berlin because of air attacks. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.10.1941 - A sunny autumn afternoon at the Kurfuerstendamm - there is no sign of war yet [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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12.07.1941 - After the start of the Russian campaign, many shop windows of the city posted maps from the eastern theater of war with the front line which were of great interest to the populatio...
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07.04.1942 - Walker on the Kurfuerstendamm in front of the Caf? Kranzler for Easter time - there is no sign of war. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.09.1940 - The dancer Lotte Hermann during a solo dance in the operetta 'Women in the Metropol' at the Metropol Theater in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.12.1943 - Non-commissioned officer with his wife and children at a Christmas celebration of the Scherl Publishing House. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1939 - Street scene in a village: a soldier with his wife and child. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1942 - Non-commissioned officer with his family while shopping, each of the four children has a Christmas package. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1939 - Street scene in a village: a soldier with his wife and child. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1939 - Back from the war: An air force corporal meets his wife and child at the train station. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1939 - A Master Sergeant of the armed forces on leave with his wife at the bed of their child. The soldier belongs to infantry regiment 54. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1941 - The end of leave: sailors take leave of their girlfriends at a train. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.09.1939 - Under the supervision of an official of the Reich air defense league, Hitler boys practice the placement of gas masks on the training ground of the RLB at the Blucher Square in Ber...
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17.08.1943 - BDM girls help within the framework of the Kinderlandverschickung (sending children to the countryside) of the NSV railway station service to look after the departing mothers and c...
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08.10.1940 - Berliner children are evacuated from the capital with special trains within the framework of the Kinderlandverschickung (sending children to the countryside). Here a special train...
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01.12.1942 - Children from Westphalia were evacuated from the Empire as part of the Kinderlandverschickung (sending of children to the land) and were hosted by ethnic Germans in Hungary. [XPAEX...
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18.07.1943 - As part of the Kinderlandverschickung (sending children to the countryside) children from Berlin are evacuated. Here they say goodbye to their fathers. Right, a police officer. [XP...
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27.08.1943 - A Berlin BDM girl looks after children who have been evacuated from their home as part of the Kinderlandverschickung (sending children to the countryside), and reads them from the...
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01.09.1943 - In a camp of the Kinderlandverschickung (sending children to the countryside) in Bavaria two girls are cleaning up their locker. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1941 - Children from Berlin were evacuated from the capital as part of the Kinderlandverschickung (sending children to the countryside). Here you can see them when climbing in a tour bus....
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01.01.1940 - Hitler Youth members in a hall in Hamburg during a so-called 'Assembly of the Youth' under a banner 'Down with the English world enemy'. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1940 - Dancer Margit Symo (alias Margarita Simo), dancing at a vaudeville show at Berlin Wintergarten. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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29.08.1940 - Heinz Schorlemmer (center) rehearses under the direction of R. Fraenzel (left) with ballet dancers at the Metropol Theater for the operetta 'Frauen am Metropol' in the Metropol The...
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11.07.1942 - During the school holiday children receive soup. While the mothers are working in factories, the children are looked after centrally. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1940 - A soldier holds his child in his arms. The rifle is decorated with flowers from the official reception. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1939 - A non-commissioned officer of a railway station (left) shows to a soldier on furlough a holidaymakers train. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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09.06.1940 - Tankers in uniform go along the beach of the Strandbad Wannsee during their holiday. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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03.06.1943 - A war disabled soldier, a tanker on vacation in a holiday resort for members of the Armored Command and of the tank industry. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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02.06.1941 - During the 'Pentecost days of the German physical exercises', participants relax on a lawn of the Reich Sports Field. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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09.01.1943 - View of the house of the Philharmonie during a concert of the Orchestra Willi Stech. On the backs of the seats hang notes with instructions in case of an air raid alarm. [XPAEXPORT...
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22.02.1943 - A noncommissioned officer of the Army patrol service (2nd from left) gathers in a catering place of the DRK soldiers on furlough for a performance of a cabaret piece on a cabaret s...
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30.09.1941 - Soldiers of the Luftwaffe spend their time with a card game. At the window a request to respect the blackout regulations. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1942 - A soldier of the Zugwache (train guard) controls the leave orders of two noncommissioned officers of the Wehrmacht on the way to Germany. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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17.05.1943 - Workers and employees listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony played at concert at a war plant. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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09.06.1940 - Two tourists in uniform watch the happening on the Wannsee. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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08.04.1941 - A photo of the Schmidt family from Koepprich (Glatz District). Josef Schmidt and his wife sit on the right and the left in the middle of the picture. In the middle is their younges...
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27.08.1939 - Assistants of the Nazi People's Welfare Organization distribute the newly introduced coupons for groceries to a family. The wife holds a child in her arms. The coupons served as a...
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01.07.1943 - Parents bring their children to the train with which they will be taken to the countryside to get them out of Berlin which is threatened by bomb attacks. Around their necks the chi...
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01.01.1939 - The "Request Programme" ("Wehrmacht Request Concert") which was launched at the beginning of the war by the Reich Broadcasting was a huge success, which had millions of listeners e...
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30.09.1941 - Soldiers eat soup in a 3rd class compartment. Above the seats there are signs with the inscription 'The enemy is listening!'. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1941 - Propaganda photo of a soldier on leave, who is at home with his family telling his wartime experiences. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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03.06.1943 - German tankers, armaments worker and tank crew with their wives and fiancees spend some vacation days in the National Socialist holiday village of the tankers and tank crew in Tyro...
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03.06.1943 - German tankers, armaments worker and tank crew with their wives and fiancees spend some vacation days in the National Socialist holiday village of the tankers and tank crew in Tyro...
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24.12.1943 - An Wehrmacht soldier on leave has fun with his wife and his son at the Christmas party of the Scherl publishing house. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1939 - Women, who during the Second World War had relations with prisoners of war or "foreign workers", are pilloried publicly and their heads are shaved. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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04.02.1942 - A soldier of the Wehrmacht is on home leave and sees his daughter for the first time. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1943 - Wehrmacht soldiers with young women during a vacation of the so-called Adolf-Hitler-Freiplatzspende in Rueckersdorf. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1943 - Egon Kinowsky as a private with his girlfriend during a furlough. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1943 - Egon Kinowsky as a private with his girlfriend during a furlough. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.12.1942 - Children from Westphalia who were brought to "Volksdeutsche" (ethnic Germans) in Hungary for safety reasons. Here a "Reichsdeutsche" teacher, supported by a Hitler Youth team leade...
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01.12.1942 - Children from Westphalia who were brought to "Volksdeutsche" (ethnic Germans) in Hungary for safety reasons. Here teaches a "Reichsdeutscher" teacher. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.12.1942 - Children from Westphalia who were brought to "Volksdeutsche" (ethnic Germans) in Hungary for safety reasons. Here two of the boys are fighting, while the rest of the group and a su...
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08.10.1940 - At Anhalter station parents bid farewell to their children, who are sent in alarm-free areas by a special train. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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07.04.1943 - Parents say goodbye to their children at the station, before they leave with 1200 other kids to Denmark within the Kinderlandverschickung program (relocation of children to the cou...
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17.08.1943 - Parents say goodbye to their children at the school train. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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17.08.1943 - Given the threat of air strikes many residents left Berlin in the summer of 1943, here at a railway station. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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27.11.1944 - A Hungarian and a German sister (right) helping a wounded man in a field hospital in the southern Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1943 - A non-commissioned officer of the Luftwaffe with two women [XPAEXPORTID003006]
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01.01.1943 - A non-commissioned officer of the Luftwaffe after the wedding ceremony with his wife. [XPAEXPORTID003006]
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01.01.1939 - A corporal of the Wehrmacht and his future wife (sitting at the table) during their war wedding at a military hospital. In the background, other members of the Wehrmacht, nurses an...
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