High quality color & exceptional B/W photographs. German side

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Two rather iconic pictures I remembered from a book...

Bergführer im Hochgebirge. After 1938

Gebirgsjäger, Ski

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London, 1936, Funeral for Leopold von Hoesch, Diplomat (Grenadier Guards)

Source:
https://www.forces.net/heritage/history/when-grenadier-guards-marched-nazi-flag-past-buckingham-palace

 

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Colorized photo of a Bootsmannmaat next to a Churchill tank used in the Dieppe raid of 1942.  He appears to be holding a Martindale machete and armed with a Kar 98A rifle. 

Image source, internet

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Colorized image of the Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger being looked over by RAF personnel after the war. Introduced in early 1945, it was made primarily of wood as metal was in short supply, being designed and built in less than 3 months. The plane could reach speeds of over 9oo KPH and was armed with a 20 mm cannon. The HE 162 only had about 30 minutes of fuel for flight, so it was limited in operations and due to lack of experienced pilots, never really performed as expected. The fighter had an ejection seat for the pilot, which was used 3 times in combat, 2 of which were successful. The HE 162 was a very streamlined and advanced aircraft, like some many of Germany's later war's efforts, it was just too little too late. 

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Colorized image of Volkssturm men wearing armbands that have Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht printed on them, there were other armbands that were used as well. These 3 have Panzerfaust 60's over their shoulders as well. The Government tried to issue its ranks uniforms of all various types, but usually older men just wore the armbands or work uniforms as their was simply not enough to go around. 

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Katastrophenalarm für Elmshorn:

Elmshorn, officials in a bombproof shelter. Befehlsstelle der örtlichen Luftschutzleitung,  v.l. sitzend: Albert Hirschfeld, Arthur Fehrs, Hans Letje, Paul Junge, Max Prechtel, Willi „Putz“ Möller, Dr. Johannes Göttsche, Magda Stieler. Stehend v.l.: 3 Melder mit Klaus Mohr (Mitte), Christian Meissner, Otto Reiss und Karl Prehm  (Copyright: Per Koopmann)

Elmshorn (Schleswig-Holstein), August 1943, victims of the bombings are laid to rest

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Wilhelm Keitel, Generalfeldmarschall, 1882 - 1946

Alfred Jodl, Generaloberst, 1890  - 1946

Eduard Dietl, Generaloberst, 1890 - 1944

Ernst Udet, Generaloberst, 1896 -1941

Alexander Löhr, Generaloberst, 1885 - 1947

Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Generaloberst, 1895 - 1945

Hans Jeschonnek,  Generalfeldmarschall, 1899 - 1943

Martin Fiebig, Generaloberst, 1899 - 1947

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Nice clear image of a Luftwaffe Gefreiter, looking through the sights of a Faustpatrone 30, the earlier version of the more well known Panzerfaust weapons. 

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Baie de Canches - click to enlarge to full width

Le Touquet - Hôtel de Ville

Phare du Touquet

Le Touquet - plage - dunes

Le Touquet today, marché

Le Touqet, Plage - piscine, ca. 1931

Christmas 1940, Hôtel du Golf, le Touquet
Aufklärungstaffel 1(H)./13

Paris, occupation troops

Paris, Place de la Concorde,  Wachablösung

Kommandantur, Hôtel Meurice

Le Touquet, some remains of the coastal defences.
Photo: La Voix du Nord

An interesting history of Le Touquet as an important fighter base from Summer 1940 can be read under follwing link (French text), an aerodrome still existing, nearest railway station, Étaples.  A very well detailed history, Göring visited there (stayed hôtel Royal Picardy), Galland, Theodor Osterkamp, were also based there:

https://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?p=2140

Hôtel Royal Picardy, Göring stayed here

 

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Bismarck, sea trials, September 1940

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Schwere Panzerabteilung 501 (?), Tunisia, 1943

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School classes and Flakhelfer
School was reduced to 15 hours on a 3 days a week basis, otherwise the youths were at their posts. As from 1941 the "Notabitur" was introduced and schooling reduced to 12 years, then reinforcements were required for the front. Officer candidates could absolve their Notabitur instead of the normal Abitur. As from 1944 school was practicly omitted due to the night bombings of the RAF and the daylight bombings of the US air force.

Flakhelfer: Towards the end of the war, whole school classes (Jg. 1927) were called up

Von der Schulbank in den Krieg. Entire classes were called up towards the end of the war

"We were allowed to sleep longer in the mornings". LW-Helfer of Jahrgang 1927 at their posts

Former Bundesaußenminister Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927-2016) was one of them. Here, back in his old classroom in Halle a.d.Saale

Photos: DIE WELT

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Fotos taken after a terrorist attack on the car of Polizei Generalleutnant Hans Albin Rauter near Apeldoorn in Holland on 6. March 1945. The driver and an adjutant died in the attack, Rauter had several wounds, but survived.

Source: https://www.zwiadowcahistorii.pl/holandia-depozyt-broni-partyzantow-znalezli-poszukiwacze-z-polski/?fbclid=IwAR31Xj55uNb6NR1x1rad4xrV2CGQQlSdW1s5374mdCBWgBqkaDnhEWSpzeU

 

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Image of a German MG34 gunner, an Obergefreiter. Early war photo, as the scope is the MGZ34 model. The MGZ40 is more often encountered today. Note the mess kits in the background along with the optic box. 

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Identity picture: KL Auschwitz, Polish,
Witold Polecki, No. 4859, red triangle for communist/political

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Prisoners from KZ Neuengamme (nr.Hamburg) clearing up after an air raid. They are watched over by the police.

Neuengamme: From 1938 till 1945 over 100.000 prisoners were held here. At the end of the war it was a special internment camp for German political prisoners.

Neuengamme today. School classes, etc. are obliged to visit this site.

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Polish cavalry helmets captured in the 1939 campaign

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Kampfgeschwader 30 also took part in the actions at Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow from 16. October 1939 till early 1940.

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Eine Panzersperre am S-Bahnhof Hermannplatz in Berlin-Neukölln wird von Volkssturmsoldaten mit Material aus zerbombten Häusern verstärkt, April 1945

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These photos taken by the Japanese

Captured US Army AirForce pilots, Tokio 1942.

Doolittle Raid: US bombing of Japan on 18 April 1942: The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. It demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attacks, served as retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided an important boost to American morale. The raid was planned by, led by, and named after Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, later a Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army Air Forces and the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

Of the 80 crew members, 77 survived the mission. Eight airmen were captured by Imperial Japanese Army troops in Eastern China, of whom three were later executed. The B-25 that landed in the Soviet Union was confiscated and its crew interned for more than a year before being allowed to "escape" via Anglo-Soviet-occupied Iran with the help of the NKVD. Fourteen complete crews of five returned to the United States or to American forces, except for one crewman who was killed in action.
(internet sources)

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Like most countries leading up to and during WW2, WW1 era machine guns were used for training, and defense purposes, sometimes in combat roles as well. Here are several Heer men with a MG08/15. This gun was slightly modified by adding a forward bipod mount and spider AA sights, the sight was stored on the side of the receiver when not in use. Most photos of these guns from WW2 show the blank firing muzzle adapter for use in training roles. A lot of the these guns were used on the Atlantic Wall as well. 

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Prochorowka, 12.7.1943, dramatic scenes from the battle. Prochorowka was always seen as a soviet victory, but latest research has proved the opposite

 

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Hiwis - the new Germans, also known as "Beutedeutsche"

Russia

Turkestanis in Northern France

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Deutschland im November 1938

1. September 1941

Protokoll der Wannsee-Konferenz, Januar 1942

Wien

Berlin

olympic Games 1936

Danzig, Juli 1939

Berlin at the end of the war

Synangoge in der Rykestraße in Prenzlauer Berg, ca. 2004

Judenverfolgung: Aufnahme vom 1. November 1938: Nazis beschmierten die jüdische Schneiderei in Wien mit antijüdischen Parolen und warnten den Besitzer: Entferne er die Schmierereien, werde er ins Konzentrationslager Dachau deportiert

Reichskristallnacht, November 1938

Sichtbarer Antisemitismus: Während der Olympischen Winterspiele in Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1935 wurden manche öffentlichen Signale des Antisemitismus aus dem Straßenbild entfernt, etwa manche "Juden unerwünscht"-Schilder an Restaurants und Hotels. Andere Schilder blieben hängen.