Playing Music In The War

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SS-Untersturmführer Franz-Josef Kneipp playing guitar with his comrade. He was signal officer in the III./SS-Panzergrenadier Rgt. 25. He was severely wounded on July 8, 1944 near Buron while standing in the turret of a tank and captured by Canadian troops

Third Reich liqueur (Beer, Alcohol, Drunk, etc.)

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RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst) beer party

Wehrmacht Soldiers in Vacation, Picnic and Holiday

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German soldiers rowing at a recreation park

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Accompanied by a smartly dressed friend, Luftwaffe officers study the odds at the Auteuil race track (Paris), where underfed horses ran during the Occupation

German Soldiers Smoking in Color

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German soldiers resting: Waffen-SS and Fallschirmjäger


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

Happy Time and Joking Each Other

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Happy time for this three signal officers

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Dust in their faces. But still happy, though!

Sporting Activities

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The officer on the right is Hermann Hölter, later Generalleutnant and chief of staff of 20 Gebirgs Armee, the officer in the center is a Finnish liason officer. The photo was taken at a German skiing competition

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Colorizing photo of General der Infanterie Joachim von Kortzfleisch on the ski

Eating in War

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Heer soldier eating his bread

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A wartime Agfa color slide of a Gebirgsjäger Hauptmann eating some bread ration

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German soldiers celebrating joyful eating roast chicken in Stalingrad, summer 1942. Wonder they know what lies ahead...

Drinking in War

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Durstig soldat (coloured by Doug Banks)

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

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SS soldier drink

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SS soldiers resting. One of them holding Panzerfaust on his shoulder


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Wehrmacht soldiers give drinks to baby

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German soldier having a cup of tea from trinkbecher. He is wearing white camo and stielhandgranate

Sleeping

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Thats me for today, Gute Nacht... This picture was taken during the advance in Russia (which measures over 9000 km to the depth). German soldiers of that time as the infantry marched Napoleon, 50 km daily average, but the intence that the fighting, producing exhaustion, every moment of rest was used for sleeping

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Tired drivers sleeping in their vehicles

Reading Books, Newspapers, Magazines, etc.

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Signal correspondent Benno Wundshammer reading a copy of issue number 20/1941 somewhere in the North African theater of war.

Playing Games

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Luftwaffe pilots playing cards in an airfield somewhere in Germany

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Luftwaffe soldiers playing cards in the desert while the Messerchmitt Bf 109 in the background