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uniroad
07-20-2004, 02:36 AM
Pictures and original captions from 'Signal' (German Nazi's propergation magazine during WWII).

I found them at http://www.chez.com/barbarossa/.

Enjoy it!

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"One minute before the combat. The German artillery bombarded effectively a village strengthened... the infantry awaits the order to attack".
Photograph published in the n°16 - August 1941.
Schneider/Signal

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"Flame thrower, ahead! Of a blockhouse, the enemy tries hopelessly
last once to stop the German advance. But here that the flame thrower threads...".
Photograph published in the n°16 - August 1941.
Weber/Signal

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"End of Smolensk. A German car equipped with a loudspeaker
fact it tower of the city on fire. The loudspeaker invites to go the last Soviet soldiers...".
Photograph published in the n°19 - October 1941.
Bohnes/Signal

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"The German artillery of attack has just passed to ford Bug and climbing the enemy slope... the wood logs placed behind the turret are used like wood carpet... "
Photograph published in the n°16 - August 1941.
Huschke/Signal

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"They do not have escaped! ... In Tolotschin, on Drut, of the heavy tanks
of 42 tons, trying to escape from the German pressure, engaged in the zones
marshy...".
Photograph published in the n°17 - September 1941.
Huschke/Signal

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"Ahead in the heart of the U.R.S.S. ... now, points of avant-garde
German cavalry, well in front of the infantry, push back the enemy".
Photograph published in the n°17 - September 1941.
Gronefeld/Signal

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"... after a short rest and the very major sleep which follows great tirednesses,
they were able to awake to enter again in action ".
Photograph published in the n°20 - October 1941.
Wanderer and Jager/Signal

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"The fight for a street: German anti-tank guns relative
a Soviet attack."
Photograph published in the n°17 - September 1942.
Grimm/Signal

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"Behind the zone of combat before going up on line, the soldiers
German connected their portable station to the battery of the car... ".
Photograph published in the n°18 - September 1941.
Trautvetter/Signal

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"Engagements in the streets of Jitomir. With a tough eagerness,
the Soviet troops try to hold the city... ".
Photograph published in the n°18 - September 1941.
Emil Grimm/Signal

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"Touched by the German anti-tank gun, a Soviet tank had to stop;
trucks which ran charged with ammunition were forced to stop; here they are on fire!".
Photograph published in the n°18 - September 1941.
Emil Grimm/Signal

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"A German reconnaissance aircraft has just launched a message...
While, its passenger tries to be directed in infinite monotonous Finnish tundra,
the motorcylcist, guided by the plume of smoke, puts himself at the research of limps... ".
Photograph published in the n°21 - November 1941.
Gross/Signal

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"A quite curious stereotype... of the extreme Finnish north.
Very close to a German plane, a herd of reindeers feeds quietly ".
Photograph published in the n°21 - November 1941.
H. Wagner/Signal

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"A through, the hut smoke screen on fire.
A warrant officer observes the flight of a Soviet flotilla of planes...".
Photograph published in the n°23-24 - December 1941.
Lieutenant Brendel/Signal


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"the combat ended. The second level of the company organizes
the defense of the conquered ground. Still a photograph in remembering...".
Photograph published in the n°23-24 - December 1941.
Lieutenant Brendel/Signal

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Photograph proposed without legend.
Ordinary scene of a unit of artillery on the face of the East.
Photograph published in 1943.
? / Signal

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"An order: Gathering ".
On this date it cannot be question of images of bright victories any more,
the iconography thus derives on the topic from "the individual vis-a-vis to the adversity".
Photograph published in the n°7 - April 1942.
Greiner/Signal

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"On the Soviet face: German heavy tanks advances forwards".
However a largely for a long time exceeded material...
Photograph published in the n°10 - May 1942.
Tritschler/Signal

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"Over the sleeve: German gun with long range
drawing on military objectives from the English coast".
Photograph published in the n°10 - May 1942.
Lieutenant Frentz/Signal

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"The ground vibrates. Thousandths of second, the camera trembled
in the hand of the photographer... A circle of fire haloes the recoil of the gun ".
Shooting of a superheavy howitzer: Skoda 42cm M16/17 L/15 (part of the First World War)
Photograph published in the n°17 - September 1942.
Pabel/Signal

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"... The major Franz orders an armoured group.
During an attack, a Bolshevik threw a grenade on his tank. The glares wounded it with the face... ".
Photograph published in the n°22 - November 1942.
Hubmann/Signal

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"... as one has to be awaited from one moment for the other to come into contact,
the acrobats tank crew members advance the best possible one against the fire of the Bolsheviks... ".
Photograph published in the n°22 - November 1942.
Arthur Grimm/Signal

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"Some share in the immense steppe caucasienne...
a scout sends a radiophonic message over the positions of the enemy ".
Photograph published in the n°22 - November 1942.
Arthur Grimm/Signal

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"The grenade throwers enter in action... ".
Photograph published in the n°9 - May 1943.
Plenik/Signal

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"Volunteers of the army of release.
Men of the regiment of cossacks "Plato" receive their badges of advance ".
Photograph published in the n°12 - June 1943.
Knoldler/Signal

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"Call before a new action ".
Photograph published in the n°20 - October 1942.
Rulhe/Signal

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the most famous photograph on the face of the East.
"the war correspondent Arthur Grimm km No, reports...
the connection between German tanks, infantry and pioneers".
Photograph published in the n°3 - February 1942.
Arthur Grimm/Signal

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"the highest position of battery of the war.
To 4200 meters of altitude, on the frozen solid mass of Elbrouz, wall border enters Europe and Asia,
the German alpine hunters installed a strong position."
Photograph published in the n°2 - 1943.
Rieder/Signal

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Series of photographs presenting the same armoured tanks on all fronts, of Africa in the Ural.
Photograph published in the n°2 - 1943.
Artur Grimm/Signal

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"A 35° with the lower part of zero".
Photograph published in the n°4 - February 1942.
Artur Grimm/Signal

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"the way of the grenade:
the projectile of a field howitzer of 150, draws its trace in the sky".
Photograph published in the n°4 - February 1942.
Hanns Hubmann/Signal


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"a mortar of 210 at the time of the departure:
the gunner draws with the left hand, while line, it protects its ear".
Photograph published in the n°4 - February 1942.
Hanns Hubmann/Signal


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"German heavy Mortar in action against the Soviet positions".
Photograph published in the n°20 - October 1943.
Weidenbaum/Signal

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"a weapon which one did not make the praise yet: shears.
And yet the handling of the shears requires not only force but also courage.
It is necessary to know to slip without noise to the enemy...".
Photograph published in the n°8 - April 1942.
Robert Grimm/Signal

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"the mortars of trench crushed the enemy in his holes".
Photograph published in the n°6 - Mars 1943.
Knodler/Signal

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"Unknown"
Photograph published in the n°11 - 1944.
? / Signal

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"Unknown"
Photograph published in the n°16 - 1943.
? / Signal

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"Unknown"
Photograph published in the n°16 - 1943.
? / Signal

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"Unknown"
Photograph published in the n°19 - 1943.
? / Signal

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"The cartridge is placed behind the projectile".
Photograph published in the n°19 - October 1942.
Pabel/Signal

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"Young soldier: old combatant. This regimental sergeant major of the German tanks
does not have that 23 years... it received 3 distinctions during the war of Spain. The iron cross of first class, the decoration of attack of the tank crew members and the money medal of wounded...".
Photograph published in the n°19 - October 1942.
Arthur Grimm/Signal


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"Brown on brown, green on green
... of the planes destroyers prepare with the attack..."
Photograph published in the n°15 - 1943.
Hubmann/Signal

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"Brown on brown, green on green
... a heavy mortar will give an opinion..."
Photograph published in the n°15 - 1943.
Marquardt/Signal

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"the steppe burns. The wind drives out the fire towards the tanks,
on a great extent. Its decisions should be made quickly. Does one have to circumvent fire?"
Photograph published in the n°? - 1943.
Artur Grimm/Signal

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"first minutes after the attack of a point of provisioning".
Photograph published in the n°6 - Mars 1943.
? / Signal

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"the brother in arms of the tanks. A pomegranate of the tanks in the East.
It has behind him two extreme summers, two winter glacials and of the dozen battles."
Photograph published in the n°10 - May 1943.
Jagger/Signal


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"a Croatian sergeant charges of the bombs...
He and his/her comrades know that the future of their country is between their hands".
Photograph published in the n°10 - May 1943.
Wanderer & Trapp/Signal

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"the German infantry through a corn field of the Caucasus...".
Unknown number of origin (at the end of 42) - unknown Author/Signal (Published in "Swatiska At war")

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"When this photograph is published in March 1942, we are in two months
offensive of spring. However, it does not let guess that German has, at this time, lost the offensive temporarily ".
March 1942 - Unknown author/Signal (Published in "Swatiska At war")

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"... A German soldier advances at the time of an attack... ".
1942 - Unknown author/Signal (Published in "Swatiska At war")

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"Four minute before going there, known as the sergeant.
A few minutes before the attack for a section of a famous Finnish regiment ".
1942 - Unknown author/Signal (Published in "Swatiska At war")

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"... attack counters it pushes forwards...".
Date unknown - unknown Author/Signal (Published in "Swatiska At war")

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"Unknown".
Unknown number of origin - unknown Author/Signal (Published in "Swatiska At war")

"Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste death but once."
- Shakespeare "Julius Caesar"

G1
07-20-2004, 05:15 AM
Great pics!

Freibier
07-20-2004, 07:36 AM
Great Post, thanks! woot

Viktor_s
07-20-2004, 07:54 AM
Brilliant! Thanks!

Btw, offtopic question, does anyone know, when the colour photography was developed and how much was it more expensive than B&W films.

Scaar.at
07-20-2004, 08:11 AM
absolutly great images. woot

thx alot for sharing :)

sups
07-20-2004, 08:46 AM
Incredible pics!

Kitsune
07-20-2004, 08:48 AM
Color Photography is older than many think. There are even some color pics of WWI ! (Its true.) During the 30ties you could buy color films anywere in German shops. Only the fact that they were much more expensive than B&W films made most people stick to the last one. So color photos of WWII are actually nothing overly special in the sense that the technology was quite established at that time.

HALo
07-20-2004, 09:20 AM
Lots of (800+) amazing photographs from WWI/France (most of them are color photographs)
Click here (http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_98=MCL&VALUE_98=Premi%e8re%20guerre%20mondiale&NUMBER=1&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28Premi%e8re%20guerre%20mondiale%29%20%3aMCL%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=1&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=20&MAX3=50&DOM=All)

CRAZY MERC
07-20-2004, 09:53 AM
Great post

WolverineBlue
07-20-2004, 10:26 AM
These are really cool pics.

Geezah
07-20-2004, 12:04 PM
Great pics :)

NOKIA--G21
07-20-2004, 01:41 PM
woot woot nice pics

Bulkowski
07-20-2004, 05:06 PM
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What's the story behind these helmet markings?

Otsoa
07-20-2004, 05:14 PM
All I know about those helmet markings and the troops is that they were Finnish troops. Perhaps one of our Finnish members can shed more light on the markings.

Kitsune
07-20-2004, 05:24 PM
That should be obvious. Its a warning for the Soviet Soldiers. The marking says: "The item thus marked is dangerous and can cause serious health problems".

;)

AmericanDude04
07-20-2004, 05:32 PM
Very Cool Pic's man. Thanks for posting them.

Vance
07-20-2004, 05:40 PM
Damn the Germans had some good photographers. Thanks! woot

5jumpchump
07-20-2004, 05:56 PM
All I know about those helmet markings and the troops is that they were Finnish troops. Perhaps one of our Finnish members can shed more light on the markings.

I think the skull markings were pretty much how they wound up , dead with nothing but a skull left rofl

Viktor_s
07-21-2004, 09:26 AM
German war correspondents were the closest to the action than any other war correspondents by a direct order of Hitler in 1939, stating that "German people have to see our brave boys crushing the enemy".

That explains the quality of the pictures and war movies.

Kitsune
07-21-2004, 11:07 AM
I think the skull markings were pretty much how they wound up , dead with nothing but a skull left

I hate it to be the one who has to tell you this...but thats how pretty much everyone winds up in the end. Only what one did until that moment is what counts, I guess.

Enduring Freedom
07-21-2004, 01:57 PM
awesome pics

n_shanygin
07-21-2004, 02:20 PM
great pics, I love color photos of WWII

uniroad
07-22-2004, 12:18 PM
I added some color pics of the German front and others (Most of them are Panzer pics).
These are from various sources.

Hope you enjoy it.. ;)

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1943, Signal

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"A lance of flame counters a soviet bunker", 1942, Signal

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1944, Signal

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"Attack", 1943

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"A panzer bogged down"

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"Column of panzer"

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"The French legion"

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"Liquid refreshment"

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"Panzers advance"

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"Rearming a panzer"

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"Motorcycle troops"

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"The road to Moscow"

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"Convoy"

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"Panzers across the Don"

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"Africa panzer III"

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"Major Georg Briel"

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1943, Kintscher, Signal

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"On the move"

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Panzer III

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Signal

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Hetzer

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France, 1940

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Jagdpanther

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Jagdtiger

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Panther Ausf

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Panzer III

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Tiger

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Tiger

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Tiger

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Tiger

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TIger

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Tiger

Claymore
07-22-2004, 01:33 PM
That should be obvious. Its a warning for the Soviet Soldiers. The marking says: "The item thus marked is dangerous and can cause serious health problems".

;)

Yep...

They painted their helmets just to scare the enemy.

StukaJr
07-24-2004, 09:51 PM
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"The German artillery of attack has just passed to ford Bug and climbing the enemy slope... the wood logs placed behind the turret are used like wood carpet... "
Photograph published in the n°16 - August 1941.
Huschke/Signal

This is a famous photograph of special amphibious PzIII - number of these tanks were converted into amphibious versions in preparation for invassion of Britain. With the invassion plans scrapped - these tanks were used during the invassion of the Soviet Union, seen here crossing river Bug which acted as natural border of USSR in 1941. I'm not aware of any other mentions of amphibious uses of these machines.

aartamen
07-24-2004, 10:45 PM
A shot with three stuck T-34's was used in a Encyclopaedia of WWII that I have. Curiously it was taken from a different angle and I am not certain it were the same three. Darn similar though.

Amazing pictures.

One of the most highly decorated Finns later fought in Vietnam.