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During the years of the Great War, thousands of photographers took millions of pictures. Some of these pictures have sunk into oblivion, others have gone down in history.

The faces of Jewish children in the ghetto of the Polish city of Shydlovets, occupied by the Nazis. December 20, 1940.

Shooting of Kiev Jews by German soldiers near Ivangorod. Ukraine, 1942.

This photograph was sent from the Eastern Front to Germany and intercepted at the post office in Warsaw by a member of the Polish resistance collecting documents showing Nazi war crimes. The original belongs to Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski and is currently in the Historical Archives in Warsaw. Original German inscription on the back of the photo: “Ukraine 1942, Jewish operation, Ivangorod”.

This photograph, which the Associated Press received from the neutral side on September 25, 1942, shows a bomb just dropped from an airplane over Stalingrad.

Three Russian children in the ruins of their father's house. The Germans took the parents prisoner and destroyed the house, leaving the children in the ashes. 1942 year.

Horse among the ruins of Stalingrad. December 1942.

Farewell to a peer, spring 1942.

During the years of the blockade, Leningrad lost about a million of its inhabitants. Most starved to death. A shortage of medical equipment and supplies made every disease and injury much more deadly.

A tank cemetery at the site of the Battle of Rzhev, December 21, 1942. They say there are about two thousand tanks in this cemetery.

A Russian woman looks at a burning house. 1942 year.

German soldiers pass through a destroyed power plant in the factory district of Stalingrad. December 28, 1942.

A Soviet T-34 tank rushes through the Square of the Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad. January 1943.

Soviet infantrymen on the snow-covered hills around Stalingrad in preparation for an operation to lift the siege of the city. The beginning of 1943.

As a result, the Red Army surrounded the enemy; about 300 thousand German and Romanian soldiers were captured.

A Soviet soldier guards a German prisoner. February 1943.

A few months after the encirclement by Soviet troops, the remnants of the German Sixth Army surrendered. By this time, about 200 thousand people had died in battles and from hunger.

Soviet soldiers, lying on their backs, shoot at enemy aircraft with rifles. June 1943.

Red Army soldiers in a trench, over which a Russian T-34 tank passes. Battle of the Kursk Bulge, 1943.

A Soviet lieutenant somewhere near Kursk distributes cigarettes to German prisoners. July 1943.

US 15th Air Force B-24s bombard rail depots in Salzburg, Austria. December 27, 1944.

The unit operates under the command of Major General Nathan Twining. The smoke from the fires mixes with the smoke from the chimneys.

A heavily armed German soldier carries boxes of ammunition. German counteroffensive against the Ardennes, January 2, 1945.

An infantryman from the Airborne Division of the 82nd US Army goes on a solo sortie under the cover of comrades. Neighborhood of Bra, Belgium, December 24, 1944.

This schoolteacher from the Aosta Valley and her husband fight in Italy near the Lesser Saint Bernard Pass. January 4, 1945.

The activities of the Italian Macs are little known outside Italy, although they, in constant danger, fought the fascist regime since 1927. Their target was the Germans and Italian fascists, and the battlefield was the snow-capped Alps on the border of France and Italy.

These photos show the reaction of a 16-year-old German soldier captured by American forces. Somewhere in Germany, 1945.

An unidentified American soldier, shot by a German sniper, continues to grip his rifle and hand grenade. Koblenz, Germany, March 1945.

View from the Dresden City Hall of the Old Town, destroyed by Allied bombing from 13 to 15 February 1945.

3.6 thousand aircraft dropped over 3.9 thousand tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary shells on the city. The result was a firestorm that burned down nearly 40 square kilometers of the city center and killed more than 22,000 people.

Soviet officers and American soldiers during a friendly meeting on the Elbe River in April 1945.

A Czech elderly woman, out of her overwhelming emotions, kisses a Russian soldier, thanking him for freeing him from the Nazis. Prague, May 5, 1945.

The famous photograph of Yevgeny Khaldei "Raising the flag over the Reichstag", taken on May 2, 1945.

The picture shows Soviet soldiers raising the flag of the Soviet Union on the dome of the Reichstag building after the end of the Battle of Berlin. The photograph did not capture the original moment, but a later dramatization, which sparked controversy over the ethics of the reporter and the authenticity of documentary photography.

Celebrating Victory on Red Square in Moscow. On May 9, 1945, fireworks were organized, accompanied by flashes of shots and beams of searchlights.

End of World War II. The destroyed Reichstag building with a wrecked German military vehicle in the foreground.

Color photograph of the bombed-out historical part of German Nuremberg in June 1945, after the end of World War II.

From 1927 to 1938, Nuremberg hosted huge congresses of the Nazi Party. The last event was scheduled for 1939 and canceled at the last minute due to the invasion of Poland on the following day. The city was also the birthplace of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws, which infringed on the rights of Jews in Nazi Germany. From 1943 to 1945, more than 90% of the city center was destroyed by bombing and more than 6 thousand inhabitants were killed. Soon, Nuremberg will once again become famous - it was here that the Nuremberg Trials, a series of military tribunals that tried the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany, took place. They were accused of a variety of crimes, including "crimes against humanity" - the deliberate murder of more than 10 million people, including about 6 million Jews.

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22.11.2016

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Wars should have no place in a civilized society, but they, big or small, are fought continuously. We have all seen many photographs of the times of the Great Patriotic War. Photojournalists, risking their lives on an equal basis with the military, were able to leave us a lot of testimonies, thanks to which we can plunge into history ...

Russian prisoners of war. Lithuania, Vilno, June 1941.


War correspondent. Summer, 1941.

But how many of us have seen military evidence from the other side? Are we interested in this? Are we ready to see how the invaders of our land perceived this war? Still, no matter how painful it is to look at some of these pictures, studying them can give a lot for understanding that page of our history.

A captured Russian officer. Summer, 1941


Soldiers on a landing boat. Summer, 1942


Prisoners during Operation Citadel. Summer, 1943


Motorized squad. Summer, 1943


SS officer. 1944 year


SS troops at a halt. 1944 year


Rocket mortars. Summer, 1942


Tracked tractors and guns. March-April 1944.


German SS cavalry. July 16, 1941.


Column of Russian prisoners. July 1941


Officer tanker. Summer 1941.

Tankers. Summer 1941.

Conversing soldiers. Summer 1941.


Himmler in Kharkov. 1942-1943 biennium


Himmler with officers. 1942-1943 biennium


Soldiers from the ditch shoot from a grenade launcher. Summer 1941.

Column of German StuG III assault guns on the march to the Caucasus.

Column of Soviet prisoners of war. In the center is a running soldier - possibly trying to escape.


A column of tanks of the SS Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler division near Kharkov. Third battle for Kharkov.


The commander of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Viking" Standartenfuehrer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with a fox terrier in the Kovel area.

The commander distributes cigarettes to his soldiers. Pomerania, end of February 1945.


The commander of the Red Army before being shot. August-September 1941, Ukraine

Tankers examine the trail of a Soviet shell on the armor of their tank.


The commander of the Finnish squadron at the Utti airfield at the Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter


German soldiers inspect the Ar-2 Soviet dive bomber shot down near Demyansk. A very rare car (only about 200 produced).


German soldiers cross the state border of the USSR.

German soldiers pose in front of the French giant Char 2C tank.

A series of documentary photographs for the Victory Day in WWII 1941-1945. A selection of 95 rare photographs of military equipment and participants in the Second World War. A unique photo from the events of 1941-1945, military operations in the history of black and white photography. We look at the online documentary photo of the Second World War 1941-1945.

Junior Sergeant Konstantin Aleksandrovich Shutyy (06/18/1926-27/12/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shuty, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.

Junior Sergeant, mortarman - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kiev. 1st Ukrainian Front.

A Marine from the American 5th Division, killed by a Japanese sniper with a shot to the head (a bullet hole in the helmet is visible).

Sailors of the Soviet destroyer of Project 7 "Crushing" with a ship's pet, the area of ​​bow torpedo tubes, nose view.

The German dive bomber Junkers Ju-87 "Stuka" (Ju 87 "Stuka") being under repair at a field airfield.

The beginning of a counterattack by one of the units of the 270th Infantry Division of the Soviet 7th Guards Army on the Kursk Bulge.

The head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front, Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), the future leader of the USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade.

Head of communications of the 51st MTAP Bykov V.V. instructs radio gunners before the flight Kolberg (Germany) - Pernov (Estonia). From left to right Mikhalev, Karpov, Archakov, Shishkin, Volkov, Chekanov, Bykov.

Unidentified female partisans of the 1st Proletarian Brigade of the NOAU, armed with Czech light machine guns ZB vz. 26. The village of Zharkovo near Belgrade on the eve of the battles for the city.

Unknown Soviet female snipers at the dugout. On overcoats sergeant's shoulder straps, in the hands of a Mosin rifle with a PU telescopic sight (Sight Shortened).

Unidentified American soldier of the US 87th Infantry Division, killed by a German sniper in the spring of 1945 in Koblenz, Germany. The soldier's weapon is the BAR automatic rifle.

German 105-mm self-propelled gun "Vespe" (Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe) from the 74th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 2nd tank division of the Wehrmacht, passing by next to the abandoned Soviet 76-mm cannon ZIS-3 near the town of Orel.

German self-propelled guns "Vespe" after being hit by a large-caliber projectile.

German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lviv in July 1944.

German self-propelled guns Marder II in ambush, between houses, in a Ukrainian village.

German quadruple 20-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (ZSU) "Verbelwind" based on the Pz.Kpfw tank. IV, destroyed by a direct hit from a large-caliber projectile.

German huntsmen at the MG-34 machine gun on the Eastern Front.

German officers captured by French soldiers during the liberation of Paris. Hotel "Majestic", chosen by the Wehrmacht during the occupation.

German infantrymen and tankers select bottles of alcoholic beverages from a warehouse.

German soldiers in a captured Soviet T-34 tank. The machine is ready to be sent to Germany for testing. The inscription “O.K.H.Wa. Prvf. 6 "(military acceptance 6).

German soldiers inspect the captured positions of the conscientious troops.