Sd.Kfz. 247

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Shooting German newsreels from the armored car Sd.Kfz.247. Sd.Kfz.247 - specialized staff car armored German army during the Second World War. In 1937 and 1941 and 1942 respectively by Daimler-Benz produced 68 machines. Chassis wheel (6x4) artillery tractor Krupp L2H143. Open-topped armored corps. Combat weight 5.2 tons, the engine capacity of Krupp M305 57 hp, speed 70 km / h, range 350 km.

Kübelwagen in Color

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Antiques corner - DAK Kübelwagen and Tunisian aqueduct (1943)

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A Kübelwagen scout car with a Bactrian camel behind

German Bicycles in Color

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Propaganda card showing soldiers on bicycles -- the title revers is 'Panzer Machen Weltgeschichte mit unseren Schnellen Truppen / Armor Making World History with our Fast Troups'. Hmm... I'm wondering where the armor is...

Cars of Wehrmacht in Color

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Hungarian soldiers with Opel Kapitän

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Afrikakorps cot

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Car from Nachrichten-Abteilung 292, 292.Infanterie-Division

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JG 52's doctor with a Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 'Black 3' in the background. Picture taken in 1943 in the Eastern Front

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An official visit of Heinrich Himmler in BMW 355 at the Łódź Ghetto, Thursday, 5 June 1941. The grey-haired man is Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. He was the "leader" of the Jewish community in the Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt). There were a number of manufacturing enterprises in the ghetto. The German Wehrmacht had orders filled for uniform pieces and other things made by Jewish laborers. Himmler paid a brief visit to the ghetto in connection with the production taking place there. Visible also Himmler's Chief Adjudant Karl Wolff; the man with his face peeking over the shoulder of the Political officer at the far left of the frame is Ghetto Administrator, Hans Biebow; and the man next to the driver could be Dr. Wilhelm Albert

German Motorcycles in Color

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Smoking together after hours in the road. The dust is clearly visible in their faces!

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Kradmelder wearing raincoats

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A Russian-speaking German despatch rider stops to chat to Ukrainian women and old men getting in the harvest in the summer of 1942


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Missing a headlight!

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Tired drivers sleeping in their vehicles

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German soldier in motorcycle reading mixed road signs

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bulgarian civilian giving water to a german army motocyclist (bulgaria 1942)

German Trucks in Color

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Luftwaffe with their trucks in Warsaw

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DAK truck with Swastika in North Africa

German Railways and Trains

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Guarded train by Wehrmacht soldiers

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A long train with full of vehicles that need maintenance. Taken in Narwa

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Destroyed train

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Reichsbahn eagle

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Here is a picture of Bessarabian-german returning "homeland" from USSR-occupied Bessarabia. Train is not the central motif here, but still this picture shows what travelling meant back then! (*NOTE* the swaz is reversed because it was meant to be seen from the other side! The photo is in correct orientation)

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Destroyed train

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German soldiers in the railway

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Armored train

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Little locomotive

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Train and railroad

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Locomotive head

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Poor locomotive!

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German soldiers on the train