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Absolutely magnificent creature.
(source: Sears catalog, Fall/Winter 1918.)
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A British Royal Airforce Avro Lancaster seen above the German city of Hamburg - Jan 1943
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German Heinkel He111’s en route to England on another mission - date unknown. This photo shows the glass turrets well armed with the MG 15’s
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Before 2024, i just want to share a photos of Bubi n Uschi wedding










Hehe (also I have photos of Bubi childhood)
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A soldier of the Waffen-SS next a small Christmas tree.December 1942
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A US Consolidated B24 Liberator makes an emergency landing in a field near Eindhoven after being hit by flak during Operation Market Garden - Sept 1944. Only gunner Frank DiPalma survived. He was rescued from the wreckage by Franciscan monks who hid him in the village of Huize Assisi until its liberation by the British
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German soldiers defend their position at the Dniepr River - Aug 1943
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel


These are some facts and curiosities about Hans-Ulrich Rudel:
He was born in Konradswaldau on 2 July 1916.
His first "flight", at the age of 8, was a jump from a roof with an umbrella – in 1924 it was not yet a cliché – which resulted in a broken leg.
As a boy he was a poor scholar but a very passionate sportsman: he was a skier and an athlete.
In August 1936, after his Abitur (university preparatory high school diploma), he joined the Luftwaffe as a cadet officer and began basic training at the "Air Warfare School" in Wildpark-Werder.
As the son of a Lutheran minister, he didn't exactly fit in with the Stuka brotherhood. “He doesn't smoke, only drinks milk, has no stories to tell about women, and spends all his free time doing sports,” one of his instructors wrote. “Senior Cadet Officer Rudel is a strange bird!”
He spent the Polish invasion as an observer in the back seat of reconnaissance planes and skipped out on the Battle of Britain and the Balkan and Cretan campaigns. Only with the invasion of the Soviet Union was he finally assigned a combat post.
Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, 4 armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat.
After the war, Rudel for a time moved to South America where he became a close friend and confidante of the Argentinian president Juan Peròn, and Paraguay's dictator and Third Reich admirer Alfredo Stroessner.
Although missing one leg, he remained an active sportsman, playing tennis, skiing, and even climbing the highest peak in the Americas
During his stay he became acquainted with notorious Nazi concentration camp doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele
He became a successful businessman in post-war Germany.
Rudel died in Rosenheim in 1982, and was buried in Dornhausen on 22 December 1982. During Rudel’s burial ceremony, two BundeswehrPhantoms appeared to make a low altitude flypast over his grave
Four mourners were photographed giving Nazi salutes at the funeral, and were investigated under a law banning the display of Nazi symbols.
Sources:
Wikipedia: Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Military Wiki: Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Eagle of the Eastern Front by Don Hollway ( as seen in the July 2011 issue of AVIATION HISTORY magazine
if you don't like it go with your life
I DON'T SUPPORT NAZISM, FASCISM OR ZIONISM IN ANY WAY, THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL POST
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Dresden Panorama, Photo by Edmund Kesting, 1930s
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DR JOSEPH GOEBBELS. BECAUSE HES FUCKING AWESOME.
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Battle of Britain Messerschmitt Bf109 and spitfire contrails over London.
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various photos of john amery and his wife Una Wing during the 1930s and one photo of amery giving a speech during the 1940s. hoping to re-do my thread on him from a year ago and go more in-depth, also thinking about a thread on aktion reinhard / t4 (if i ever find the time…)
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German soldiers cautiously make their way through the trees of the Ardennes - Dec 1944
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Allegedly, a photograph of a Panzer PzIII/IV engaged in rescue work on Berlin’s Wurttembergeralle after the allied air raid of 16th Dec 1943. The PanzerIII/IV was an experimental medium tank project and was designed to use components of both the III and the IV in an attempt to integrate the two projects.However, according to Wikipedia, it was cancelled with only the blueprints developed, and no units were thought to have ever been built.
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