WWII - German invasion of Russia

26.06.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "Advance in the east. Securing the approaching roads against surprise attacks from the forest." Motif f...
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31.07.1941 - Propaganda text of the National Socialist reporting on the back side of the picture: 'Snipers. The scattered Bolshevists have concealed for days, forcing farmers to give the civil...
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24.11.1941 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Camouflage cut out of Bolshevist parachute". Motive from the Eastern front on the 24th of November in 1941...
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15.07.1942 - Propaganda text on the back of the picture for National Socialist report: "The street of retreat and destruction at the River Don. Chaos awaits us at the bank of the Don." Motive f...
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21.09.1941 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "The swastika flag blows above Kiev. Bolshevists tried to set the city alight. The population still stands...
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05.07.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "German troops in Sewastopol. The city is completely destroyed". Motive from the Soviet front on the 5th of...
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16.11.1941 - Propaganda text on the back of the picture for National Socialist report: "Narva and Kingissepp lie behind us. The sign towards Petersburg shows us the way." Motive from the Easter...
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22.06.1941 - German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (2-R) reads a note to the Soviet government, in which there is criticism of the hostile attitude towards Germany and Russian troop co...
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16.09.1941 - Propaganda text on the back of the picture for National Socialist report: "The commander-in-chief of an army visits the heavily destroyed harbour of Reval after the occupation of t...
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12.09.1941 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Capitulating is the only rescue". Motive from the Eastern front on the 12th of September in 1941. The atta...
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12.03.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Endless Soviet territory... Long sledge convoys with munitions and supplies head towards the front across...
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22.06.1941 - Angehörige der Deutschen Wehrmacht eröffnen in den frühen Morgenstunden des 22.06.1941 das Feuer auf das jenseits des Grenzflusses Bug liegende Gebiet bei Zabuze (?, etwa 50km nw v...
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28.01.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "From the Eastern front. Almost seven-league boots, but they keep warm and are very cheap". Motive from the...
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24.07.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "The Stalin line breaks down. After heavy German shooting, the whole crew of a bunker capitulates". Mot...
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19.09.1941 - Propaganda text on the back of the picture for National Socialist report: "Harbour of Reval. German Air Force has destroyed Soviet nests of resistance in the harbour area in heavy...
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25.06.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "Fight against Bolshevik Russia. War is over for them. Imprisoned soldiers of the Red Army shortly befor...
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09.07.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "Conquered city of Minsk. German troops enter Minsk". Motif from the Soviet Front, Belarus, 07/09/1941....
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07.09.1941 - Propaganda text on the back of the picture for National Socialist report: "A bridge construction unit at work. A new bridge across the River Narva consisting of wooden construction...
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23.06.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "First pictures from the war in the east. A few minutes after the action of the first groups of an infa...
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08.07.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "The burning city of Daugavpils." Motif from the Eastern Front, Latvia, 07/08/1941. The attack of the G...
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06.11.1941 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "Soldiers of the German Mountain Infantry march across the Dzerzhinsky Square in Kharkiv." Image from the Eastern Front/Ukraine...
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24.12.1941 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "30 degrees below zero. After a long march, the warm breath settles down as ice crystals on the head protec...
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19.06.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "The first prisoners beyond the Donez". Motive from the Eastern front on the 19th of June in 1942. The atta...
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07.07.1941 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the picture reads: "Advancement into Lviv. Burning barracks along the main street." Motif from the Eastern Front, Ukraine from 07/07/1941. The a...
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01.07.1943 - Soviet troops during the Battle of Kursk in summer 1943. This Operation, which German commanders named "Unternehmen Zitadelle", was the last German major offensive in the war again...
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24.09.1943 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "After day-long heavy defensive combat on the middle part of the Don River. The trench periscope allows the observation of the...
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27.03.1944 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "The kitchen next to the guns. Soldiers of a flak division have installed their oven next to their guns to...
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14.09.1941 - Propaganda text on the back of the picture for National Socialist report: "In front of the fortification Ivangorod. New troops steadily enter the city of Narva over a pontoon bridg...
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23.07.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "That is how German bombs work - burning freight trains in the train station of Witebsk." Motif from th...
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18.12.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "From the victory over the Soviets. Numerous Bolshevists are imprisoned. 240 Soviet prisoners are brought t...
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01.09.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "German mountain infantry overcomes Mount Elbrus, the highest one in the Caucasus". Motive from the Soviet...
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12.11.1941 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "The way to captivity. Endless convoys of Soviet prisoners march across a temporary bridge towards a camp"....
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10.09.1941 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Crossing the Dnepr". Motive from the Eastern front on the 20th of January in 1942. The attack of the Germa...
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14.10.1943 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "Military police fights with Bolshevist gangs. During the night, German police units in collaboration with tanks have encircled...
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07.07.1941 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the picture reads: "In front of the victims of the Bolshevik terror. Ukrainians still come to Lviv's prisons to look for their missing families....
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16.07.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picture: "Imprisoned Soviet soldiers in a camp". Motif from the Eastern Front from 7/16/1941. The attack of the...
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15.09.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Fight in a height of 4350 metres. Our mountain infantry has to stand extraordinary conditions". Motive fro...
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04.09.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Flak in the Caucasus wearing trunks and steel helmets" . Motive from the Soviet front on the 4th of Septem...
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12.04.1943 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "The main station of Kharkiv is about to be put into operation again. Railway pioneers clear the space off debris and breaching...
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30.05.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Kharkov offensive". Motive from the Eastern front on the 30th of May in 1942. The attack of the German Weh...
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22.07.1942 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "The truth about Voronezh. Again and again, the English and Soviet press spread the lie that Voronezh "still" is in the Soviets...
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05.08.1941 - Das Motiv aus der nationalsozialistischen Propaganda zeigt Zerstörungen in Moskau nach einem deutschen Luftangriff, aufgenommen im Juli / August 1941. Die nationalsozialistische Be...
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16.12.1941 - Das Motiv aus der nationalsozialistischen Propaganda zeigt Soldaten der Deutschen Wehrmacht im Winter an der Front vor Moskau, aufgenommen im Dezember 1941. Die nationalsozialistis...
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31.01.1943 - Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (l), supreme commander of German 6th Army, is captured by the Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet Union, 31 January 1943. Photo: Fotoarc...
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01.01.1943 - Soldiers that presumably are part of the German Wehrmacht wear cammouflage and fight with captured Soviet rifles in the streets during during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet Union...
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26.01.1943 - Soviet tank troops of the Don Front meet with the 62nd Army in Stalingrad, Soviet Union, 26 January 1943. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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14.10.1941 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "Fighting for Leningrad. Machine gunners in front of Leningrad". Motive from the Leningrad blockade on the 14 October 1941. The...
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12.03.1943 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "Long is the way back to the home country. A signpost in front of Leningrad reminds of the long distances to home." An image fr...
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01.01.1942 - Leningrad (today: Saint Petersburg) during the blockade. Soviet artillery defend the city in 1942. The attack of the German Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union on the 22 June 1941 was go...
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09.07.1943 - A line of Soviet T34 tanks moves forward in the battle of Kursk: the sky is full of Sturmovik fighters hammering the stranded German forces. Near the village of Kazachie Lisitsy -...
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31.07.1943 - The Nazi propaganda picture shows ferry boats of the German Wehrmacht in the Kuban bridgehead on the Eastern Front. The photo was taken in July 1943. The Nazi propaganda caption on...
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19.08.1943 - The Nazi propaganda picture shows soldiers of the Romanian Armed Forces on tanks crossing a light railway with members of the German Wehrmacht in the Kuban bridgehead on the Easter...
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01.10.1943 - Das Motiv aus der nationalsozialistischen Propaganda zeigt einen Panzerzug, der den Räckzug der Deutschen Wehrmacht vom Kuban-Bräckenkopf äber die Straße von Kertsch Richtung Halb...
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17.06.1943 - The Nazi propaganda picture shows members of the German Wehrmacht in the Kuban bridgehead on the Eastern Front. The photo was taken in June 1943. The Nazi propaganda caption on the...
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04.08.1941 - Das Motiv aus der nationalsozialistischen Propaganda zeigt die bei den Kämpfen zwischen der Deutschen Wehrmacht und der Roten Armee zerstörte Stadt Smolensk im August 1941. Die nat...
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28.07.1941 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "After taking over Smolensk. Lull in the fighting. Lunch break." Image from the Eastern Front/Ukraine, 28 July 1941. The attack...
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28.07.1941 - Das Motiv aus der nationalsozialistischen Propaganda zeigt die Uspenski-Kathedrale in der Stadt Smolensk nach der Eroberung durch die Deutsche Wehrmacht, aufgenommen im Juli 1941....
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01.01.2000 - WW2, Zweiter Weltkrieg: Russia/ A battle in Kiev, 1943. Russian Federation
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21.10.1941 - Propaganda text on the back of the picture for National Socialist report: "After the conquest of Odessa. View of the war harbour." Motive from the Eastern front / Ukraine from the...
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30.10.2012 - Operation, Barbarossa, group, Wehrmacht, soldiers, lunch, boxes, USSR, World War II, Soviet Union, 1942, army
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06.08.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "25,000 Soviet prisoners wait for their transport in a camp near Sewastopol". Motive from the Eastern front...
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06.04.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Victims of senseless Soviet mass attacks. A horrible document of Bolshevist self-destruction.". Motive fro...
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23.06.1942 - The picture by Soviet war photographer Jewgeni Chaldej shows an old woman who carries her luggage in the burnt down city of Murmansk. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei
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25.07.1941 - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picturet: "Destroyed by Bolshevists. This aerial photograph of Witebsk shows, that Bolshevists have set the whol...
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28.03.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Beaten in the air, beaten on the ground. A graveyard of Soviet airplanes, the airport of Minsk". Motive fr...
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23.06.1942 - The picture by Soviet war photographer Jewgeni Chaldej shows two civilians with their personal belongings in the middle of burnt down ruins in Murmansk in 1942. Photo: Yevgeny Kh...
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02.10.1942 - Propaganda text of National Socialist report on the back of the picture: "Way to captivity. Soviet soldiers march into German captivity from Stalingrad". Motive from the Eastern fr...
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02.05.1945 - Soviet soldiers hoist the Red Flagg on the destroyed Quadriga of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (02.05.1945). Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei
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