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SZ Photo - Operation Bar­barossa June-December 1941

This selection contains pictures from our partner agency Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.

Nazi German soldiers and tanks on the Eastern front, 1941

01.07.1941 - Soldiers of the German infantry with machine pistols peer at Soviet positions with field glasses. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Nazi German soldiers on the Eastern front, 1941

01.06.1941 - Members of a German antitank unit observe the land. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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Nazi German soldier during urban warfare on the Eastern front, 1941

01.07.1941 - A soldier of a Waffen SS reconnaissance patrol goes behind a house for cover. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German tanks on the Eastern Front, 1941

28.07.1941 - A tank wanted to cross a makeshift bridge and remained stuck in the river. On the top a swastika flag that indicates to the Air Force the tank as being German. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German Tanks in Russia, 1941

21.07.1941 - German tanks gather at an assembly point at the Eastern front. In the front, the picture shows an armoured personnel carrier Sdkfz. 250, and, behind it, tanks type III and II. In t...
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German supply column on the Eastern front, 1941

15.07.1941 - While advancing, an armed forces column passes an antiaircraft carriage built from Maxim machine guns. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers in the south sector of the Eastern front, 1941

22.06.1941 - Soldiers before an attack on the Eastern front. In the foreground is a mountain infantry man. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German officers before the attack on the Soviet Union, 1941

22.06.1941 - A regiment leader (left) talks over the attack with a lieutenant in a forest near Ostrow. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German panzer II after the attack on the Soviet Union, 1941

01.06.1941 - A column of German tanks drives through a Soviet propaganda portal at the entry to a town after the attack on the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German soldiers on a Russian village square, 1941

01.07.1941 - Soldiers view a surrendered Soviet tank on the main square of a Ukrainian village. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldier with a captured Russian flag in Brest-Litovsk, 1941

01.06.1941 - A soldier with one of the flags with a Lenin portrait on it captured during the combat over the citadel of Brest-Litovsk. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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Greeting German soldiers in the area of the Army Group South on the Eastern front, 1941

01.06.1941 - A Ukrainian woman gives a bouquet of flowers to soldiers passing on a motorcycle. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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Russian population greets German soldiers of the Army Group South, 1941

01.07.1941 - A vehicle of the tank group 1 Kleist drives through a welcome portal at the entry to a Ukrainian village. A sign hangs on the portal with the text: 'A Warm Welcome. Heil Hitler' an...
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German soldiers speak with an Ukrainian woman, 1941

01.07.1941 - Soldiers speak with a peasant woman in the southern sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers during combat on Lake Peipus in Estonia, 1941

01.07.1941 - Soldiers fire with a 3.7 cm Pak 36 on Russian positions in Ddow on Lake Peipus. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers in Lithuania, 1941

01.07.1941 - Soldiers of an infantry platoon in a village in Lithuania. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German Panzer III during combat in Latvia, 1941

01.06.1941 - A German tank column during combat for an town on the river Aiviekste in the northern sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German Armored Personnel Carrier at the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - Armored Personnel Carrier Sdkfz. 251/1 in a village near Pskov in the northern sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Establishment of Latvian self-defense in Libau, 1941

01.07.1941 - After the occupation from Libau by German troops, volunteers are recruited for local militias. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German tanks in Minsk, 1941

09.07.1941 - German tanks roll into the city of Minsk after the completion of combat in the encirclement battle of Bialystok and Minsk. In the foreground is a 38t tank pulling a container of ga...
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Heinkel He 111 over the city of Nikolajev, 1941

10.10.1941 - A German bomber over Nikolajev on the Black Sea. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German artillery on the Eastern front, 1941

28.07.1941 - A horse-drawn artillery gun moves passed a Russian tank which has been shot up. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Destroyed Russian T-34 tank, 1941

03.07.1941 - Soviet T-34 tank shot up in battle. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Shot up KW 1 Russian tank, 1941

01.07.1941 - A Russian KW 1 tank on the Eastern front which is out of service. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German bridge over the Dniester, 1941

01.07.1941 - German troops cross a bridge on the Dniester in the central sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Motorcycle troops of the Waffen-SS, 1941

01.06.1941 - Soldiers of an advance party of the Waffen-SS explore the area on motorcycles. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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Exhausted German soldiers on the Eastern Front, 1941

01.06.1941 - German soldiers during a lull in the fighting. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German machine gunner with MG 34 on the Eastern Front, 1941

01.11.1941 - Soldiers during the fights in the offensive towards Moscow (Operation "Taifun"). [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German infantry on the Eastern Front, 1941

01.01.1941 - Soldiers have left the coverage and cross the road, during the attack on Moscow. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German Soldiers in House-to-House Fighting at the Eastern Front, 1941

01.06.1941 - At the beginning of the German campaign in Russia, infantry men are fighting in a small town. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German Noncom at the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - A noncom crouches as he moves forward. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Soldiers of the Waffen SS on the Eastern front, 1941

01.06.1941 - Soldiers of the Waffen SS take cover in a street ditch to avoid enemy fire. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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Horse and wagon with artillery gun in WWII on the Eastern front, 1941

23.07.1941 - A horse and cart pulls a gun while German soldiers rest on the seat of the field howitzer. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers with grenade launchers in WWII on the Eastern front, 1941

01.07.1941 - German soldiers with grenade launchers at a destroyed bridge near Burkau. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German bombers are fuelled up, 1941

01.06.1941 - In the first month of the war against Russia the warplanes Dornier Do 17 are being fuelled up at a frontline airstrip. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German Infantry on the march at the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - German Infantry on the march at the Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers at the Russia campaign, 1941

29.06.1941 - Soldiers are waiting for new orders at a pause in the fighting. The soldier in the foreground is carrying a range finder. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German military trailblazers are attacking at the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - A group of military trailblazers are attacking a position at the Lenin Line. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers are attacking Russian positions, 1941

01.06.1941 - Infantrymen are attacking a building across the road where Soviet soldiers are hiding. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German soldiers at the Eastern Front, 1941

01.06.1941 - Kradschuetzen [WW II German motorcycle mounted infantryman] are taking cover in a roadside ditch to fight Russian soldiers. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German Soldiers are Gaining Ground in Russia, 1941

01.06.1941 - German soldiers are marching at dusk. Since the front moved rapidly, the infantrymen often had to march until after nightfall. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German convoy on the advance in Russia, 1941

22.06.1941 - A convoy of vehicles close to Tauroggen on the advance on the first day of the Russian campaign. The vehicle in front is a 1 ton tractor Sdkfz. 10 with a 2cm flak 38. [XPAEXPORTID0...
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German soldier sleeps in a march break, 1941

01.07.1941 - A soldier falls backward on a galloping horse and uses a break for a short sleep. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German regiment command post on the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - Meeting in the regiment command post of an infantry regiment in a captured bunker of the Stalin Line in Ukraine. An officer explains the situation to the regiment chief, a Colonel...
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German Panzer IV on the Eastern Front, 1941

09.07.1941 - Panzer IV of the 12th armoured division in a Russian city in the central sector of the Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldier sleeps on the Eastern Front, 1941

30.06.1941 - A soldier of the Air Force sleeps in the first days of the Russian campaign on his motorcycle. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Heinz Guderian with officers on the first day of the Russian campaign, 1941

22.06.1941 - The commander of the Panzer Group 2 General colonel Guderian (right) with officers of the staff at the bow north of Brest Litovsk. The recording was made on the 22.06.1941 at 03.15...
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German soldiers in the suburbs of Riga, 1941

01.06.1941 - Soldiers move into the suburbs of the Latvian capital. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German Soldier in Combat at the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - A German infantryman is firing at Russian troops in a forest near Mogilev in the medial sector of the Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German rider during the advance in Russia, 1941

01.06.1941 - A rider rests. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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German transport plane on a military air field on the Eastern front, 1941

13.07.1941 - Junkers Ju 52 at a military air base. In the foreground are fuel barrels. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Meeting of German officers at the eastern Front, 1941

01.06.1941 - Infantry and panzer officers are discussing proceedings of the war in the Baltic States. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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explosion of a Soviet tank at the eastern Front, 1941

22.07.1941 - After a successful hit of a German anti-tank gun the ammunition of a Soviet tank explodes. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers on the eastern Front, 1941

20.07.1941 - Infantrymen during the fights in one place. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldier with a captured tank on the Eastern front, 1943

01.07.1941 - German soldiers with a captured Red Army 'KW II' tank in WWII on the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers on the Eastern front, 1941

01.07.1941 - Infantry lie in a ditch under cover while a cable-layer with a cable drum lays a telephone wire. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German mounted messenger on the Eastern front, 1941

01.08.1941 - A mounted messenger at an airport on the Eastern front at the beginning of the Russia campaign. In the background is a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldiers on the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - Led by a lieutenant, soldiers go forward on the Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Supply route in Russia, 1941

01.07.1941 - A truck on a supply route on the eastern front. One unit of the Reich Labor Service improves the street. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Supply route to Russia, 1941

01.07.1941 - Trucks of a German air force unit (right) and a field kitchen on an extended road on the eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Supply route in Russia, 1941

01.07.1941 - A German truck on an extended road on the eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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German soldier with a dictionary on the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - For the war against the Soviet Union, the Wehrmacht leadership had printed a dictionary for the communication with Russian people and soldiers. In a Ukrainian village, a soldier tr...
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A Heinkel He 111 on the Eastern Front, 1941

01.07.1941 - View of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber on a flight over Russia in the area Orsha / Smolensk in the central sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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Captured Russian soldier on the Eastern Front

01.01.1941 - A Russian soldier has been captured on the Eastern Front and raises his hands as a sign of surrender. Russian prisoner of war, World War II, Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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Nazi German soldiers and tanks on the Eastern front, 1941
German tanks on the Eastern Front, 1941
German soldiers in the south sector of the Eastern front, 1941
Nazi German soldiers on the Eastern front, 1941
German Tanks in Russia, 1941
German officers before the attack on the Soviet Union, 1941
Nazi German soldier during urban warfare on the Eastern front, 1941
German supply column on the Eastern front, 1941
German panzer II after the attack on the Soviet Union, 1941

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