SZ Photo - Operation Bar­barossa June-December 1941

01.07.1941 - Soldiers of the German infantry with machine pistols peer at Soviet positions with field glasses. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1941 - Members of a German antitank unit observe the land. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.07.1941 - A soldier of a Waffen SS reconnaissance patrol goes behind a house for cover. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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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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15.07.1941 - While advancing, an armed forces column passes an antiaircraft carriage built from Maxim machine guns. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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22.06.1941 - Soldiers before an attack on the Eastern front. In the foreground is a mountain infantry man. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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22.06.1941 - A regiment leader (left) talks over the attack with a lieutenant in a forest near Ostrow. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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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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01.07.1941 - Soldiers view a surrendered Soviet tank on the main square of a Ukrainian village. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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01.06.1941 - A Ukrainian woman gives a bouquet of flowers to soldiers passing on a motorcycle. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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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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01.07.1941 - Soldiers speak with a peasant woman in the southern sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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01.07.1941 - Soldiers of an infantry platoon in a village in Lithuania. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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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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01.07.1941 - After the occupation from Libau by German troops, volunteers are recruited for local militias. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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10.10.1941 - A German bomber over Nikolajev on the Black Sea. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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28.07.1941 - A horse-drawn artillery gun moves passed a Russian tank which has been shot up. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.07.1941 - Soviet T-34 tank shot up in battle. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.07.1941 - A Russian KW 1 tank on the Eastern front which is out of service. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.07.1941 - German troops cross a bridge on the Dniester in the central sector of the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1941 - Soldiers of an advance party of the Waffen-SS explore the area on motorcycles. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.06.1941 - German soldiers during a lull in the fighting. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.11.1941 - Soldiers during the fights in the offensive towards Moscow (Operation "Taifun"). [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1941 - Soldiers have left the coverage and cross the road, during the attack on Moscow. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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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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01.07.1941 - A noncom crouches as he moves forward. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1941 - Soldiers of the Waffen SS take cover in a street ditch to avoid enemy fire. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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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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01.07.1941 - German soldiers with grenade launchers at a destroyed bridge near Burkau. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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01.07.1941 - German Infantry on the march at the Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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01.07.1941 - A group of military trailblazers are attacking a position at the Lenin Line. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1941 - Infantrymen are attacking a building across the road where Soviet soldiers are hiding. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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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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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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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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01.07.1941 - A soldier falls backward on a galloping horse and uses a break for a short sleep. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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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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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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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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01.06.1941 - Soldiers move into the suburbs of the Latvian capital. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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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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01.06.1941 - A rider rests. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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13.07.1941 - Junkers Ju 52 at a military air base. In the foreground are fuel barrels. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1941 - Infantry and panzer officers are discussing proceedings of the war in the Baltic States. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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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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20.07.1941 - Infantrymen during the fights in one place. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.07.1941 - German soldiers with a captured Red Army 'KW II' tank in WWII on the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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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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01.07.1941 - Led by a lieutenant, soldiers go forward on the Eastern Front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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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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01.07.1941 - A German truck on an extended road on the eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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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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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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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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