Photos of captured Soviet soldiers near Stalingrad. Battle of Stalingrad. Nice selection of photos

An ideal German family during the Third Reich. The father serves in the police, one son (left) is in the army, the second is the leader of the Hitler Youth.

Mom accompanies her son to the front.

Inspection of personnel in German.

German soldiers undergoing a medical examination.

German soldiers are fooling around. The inscription on the soldier’s back reads “Western Front 1939.”

The first day of the war in Przemysl (today the Polish city of Przemysl) and the first invaders killed on Soviet soil (soldiers of the 101st Light Infantry Division). The city was occupied by German troops on June 22, but was liberated the next morning by Red Army units and border guards and held until June 27.

Column of German troops. Ukraine, July 1941.

German soldiers with a machine gun MG 08/15.

German soldiers load a machine gun belt.

A German soldier with his daughter (presumably).

A German machine gunner with an MG-34 machine gun, the second crew number with additional zinc cartridges is visible from behind.

A German soldier in a captured village in the USSR. One shoulder strap is missing, most likely lost.

German soldier in a doghouse.

Officers of the German army and navy go to the position of the broken Soviet armored turret battery No. 35 (BB-35) of Sevastopol.
From the report of the Political Directorate of the Black Sea Fleet dated July 22, 1942 on the results of the June battles and the evacuation of Sevastopol:
“During the most intense period, when the enemy was breaking through in large groups of tanks from the area of the Kalfa and Nikolaevka farms, most of the coastal defenses were defeated, the main blow to the group that broke through was dealt by battery No. 35, which, starting from June 30, 1942, was the last most stable point of resistance on approaches to the Chersonesos Peninsula. The personnel of the approaching units, under the cover of battery fire, have been repelling numerous enemy attacks for the last three days, ensuring evacuation by sea and air. Having completely exhausted its ammunition and fired up to 50 practical shells, the 35th battery was blown up on the night of July 1-2.”

Awarding German soldiers with Iron Crosses.

A German pilot explains to his comrades how to attack an American Liberator B-24 bomber with a Messerschmitt Bf.109. Model B-24 - with designated firing sectors for onboard machine guns

Soviet prisoner of war. For some reason the Germans are carrying it with them in the back of a truck.

Germans with a field kitchen.

The Germans slaughter a pig.

German occupiers are photographed with local residents somewhere in the USSR.

Occupied territory of the USSR. In the upper right corner of the photo you can see the Izvestia newspaper on the wall.

German officers at lunch. Somewhere in the occupied territory of the USSR.

A German patrol leads captured Soviet soldiers in disguise. Kyiv, September 1941

German machine gunner with an MG-42 light machine gun.

The Germans bring a cow into a truck, taken from the inhabitants of an occupied village somewhere in the USSR.

Rudolf Witzig - legend of the German Airborne Forces
Hero of the assault on the Belgian fort Eben-Emal, which was considered impregnable. The fort with a garrison of 1,200 people and numerous artillery was suddenly attacked on May 10, 1940 (German landing gliders landed right on the territory of the fort), blocked and capitulated within 24 hours.
German losses were 6 killed and 15 wounded out of 85 soldiers and officers who participated in the operation.

A German soldier next to the bodies of dead Red Army soldiers.

Luftwaffe employees drinking in a hangar.

Two very different German soldiers.

Group photo of German submariners on the deck of a German submarine.

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

German paratrooper.

Clown photo from a German barracks.

German sergeant major with an MP-38 submachine gun.

Soviet children clean the boots of German soldiers. Bialystok, November 1942

Wehrmacht sergeant major who fought in the USSR. On the sleeve is the “Crimean Shield” badge for participation in the Crimean campaign of 1941-1942. Also visible on the chest are the DRA Sports Badge for Physical Fitness (left) and the General Assault Badge (center) for personal participation in three attacks or counter-attacks within three days, or bravery or wounding in three attacks or counter-attacks.

A photograph that seems to have been specially taken to refute the widespread stereotypes among us about the powerful weapons and support of the German troops that invaded the USSR in 1941: everyone on motorcycles, armed with machine guns, against foot soldiers of the Red Army with rifles. Here, all the German soldiers are armed with rifles, walking, and several people in the background are riding on horseback. The picture is complemented by the German light tank PzKpfw I, one of the weakest tanks of that time (bulletproof armor, armament: 2 MG-13 machine guns of 7.92 mm caliber).

Another clown photo from a German barracks.

German soldiers deliver food in water-filled trenches, October 1943, Velikiye Luki region.

A captured Red Army soldier showing the Germans the commissars and communists.

A famous photograph, the controversy surrounding which continues to this day. Beginning of July 1943. A Waffen SS (SS) soldier approached Soviet soldiers, one of whom was mortally wounded. The wounded man was given first aid; his arms and legs were injured. The next moment, the SS soldier will bend over the mortally wounded man and give him water from his flask:

As often happens, there are two versions of these events. Version No. 1: the events in the photo are true and show the last sign of respect shown to a dying but not defeated enemy. Version No. 2 is a staged photo (perhaps these are shots from Deutsche Wochenschau), aiming to show the humanity of German soldiers even in relation to “subhumans”.

SS soldiers pose with a captured Red Army soldier in a trench. In the hands of the German on the right is a captured Soviet PPSh assault rifle.

Reprisal against a captured Red Army soldier.

The Germans are gluing a paper model of the Soviet KV-1 tank. The KV-2 model is waiting in the wings on the table. In the initial period of the war, German industry produced similar visual aids - “tank field guides”. During the assembly process, soldiers remember the characteristic features and silhouette of enemy equipment. The same practice was used by the British during the Battle of Britain - 1/72 scale models of German aircraft were given to farmers living on the English Channel coast and having a home telephone.

German machine gunner at lunch. An MG-42 machine gun and an M-24 grenade nearby allow you to have lunch in peace.

German soldiers finish off a wounded Soviet sniper.

German pilots drink in a train compartment.

German soldiers study the Soviet light machine gun DP-27 (Dyagterev infantry model 1927). Captured copies of the DP-27 were used by the Wehrmacht under the designation “7.62mm leichte Maschinengewehr 120(r).”

German crew inside an assault gun.

German tank PzKpfw III and its crew.

Hauptmann Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Stuka pilot, conducts an instructional training session on how to practice attacking Soviet tanks using the 37-mm cannons of a Ju-87 dive bomber. 1943, on the eve of the Battle of Kursk.

"Mixed-caliber" employees of the German air force.

The photo shows the tragic moment when the crew of the Soviet medium tank T-34/76 was captured by the Germans. Soviet tankers rammed the German self-propelled gun Sturmgeschutz III (StuG III), as a result of the frontal impact, both vehicles were disabled

Panzergrenadiers of the SS Viking Division. Battle for Kovel (Volyn region, Ukraine). The soldier in the foreground carries an MG-42 light machine gun on his shoulder, and the soldier turned away on the left has the latest assault rifle (machine gun) StG-44 at that time. In the background is a PzKpfw V Panther tank.

Panzergrenadier of the 12th SS Division "Hitlerjugend". The photo was taken in August 1944, before the Battle of Caen.

German soldiers in a swamp near the village of Myasnoy Bor, Novgorod region.

It’s interesting that the Aryans wear Russian hats with earflaps.

A German machine gunner in all the splendor of Wehrmacht logistics: excellent uniform, shiny helmet, mounted MG-34 machine gun and with an optical(!) sight. The photo is staged, but it gives some idea of the equipment of the German troops.

Private SS police division

Soldiers of the "Germany" regiment of the German 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking".

A private German tankman drinks a strong drink.

Matthias Hetzenauer (1924-2004) with a Kar98k rifle with a 6x optical sight.
Sniper of the 3rd Mountain Division (Geb.Jg. 144/3. Gebirgs-Division). From July 1944 to May 1945 - 345 confirmed killed Red Army soldiers. Awarded the Knight's Cross with Swords and Oak Leaves. One of the most productive snipers in Germany.

A Jew surrounded by German soldiers.

German soldiers with their main trophy. And also a little soldier’s life caught in the frame.

A German tankman examines a hole left by a shell on the armor of a Tiger tank. Kursk Bulge, August 1943

A German soldier portrays a woman among her comrades.

Crew members of a German submarine pose with a recently killed polar bear.

A captured Red Army soldier shows the Germans on the map the information they are interested in.

Helmsman in the conning tower of a German submarine. The photo was most likely not taken during a military campaign or at the very beginning, since the sailor’s face is clean-shaven, and in the German submarine fleet there was a tradition of not shaving until returning from a campaign to the base. In addition, it is interesting that the sailor holds his hand on the engine telegraph, which shows the position “Stop engine” and is clearly awaiting a command from the bridge.

Luftwaffe employees. There were also Germans in the aviation and navy who were far from the Aryan ideal.

A column of Soviet prisoners is being led to work. The German soldiers guarding them are armed with sticks in addition to rifles to urge on the prisoners.

Luftwaffe singing squadron.

A German officer with a little girl in a Ukrainian village.

German dog harness.

A German provides medical assistance to a Soviet prisoner.

A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian woman and child.

A German provides medical assistance to a Soviet prisoner

Column of Soviet prisoners of war. The German guard urges those walking.

This is the first public execution in the occupied Soviet territories; on that day in Minsk, 12 Soviet underground workers who helped wounded Red Army soldiers escape from captivity were hanged from the arch of a yeast factory. The photo shows the moment of preparation for the hanging of Vladimir Shcherbatsevich. On the left is 17-year-old Maria Bruskina, who was hanged.
The execution was carried out by volunteers of the 2nd Police Auxiliary Battalion from Lithuania, commanded by Major Impulevičius.

German column of motorcyclists.

German soldiers test the strength of the gallows.

Lunch of German officers. Somewhere on the territory of the USSR.

Wehrmacht soldiers entertain their comrades

German border police officers. The personnel are armed with German MP-28 submachine guns and a Czech ZB-26/30 machine gun.

German flamethrower.

German soldiers under artillery fire. Obviously, they already have losses - pay attention to the left side of the anti-tank ditch.

A captured German shows information on a map that interests a Soviet soldier.

The German soldier, having been wounded, continued to fight until he died from a grenade explosion.

Broken German tanks and corpses of German soldiers who died near the village of Panskoye, Kursk region in a battle with the 2nd Guards Rifle Division (future 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Taman Division).
Until December 10, 1941, the 127th Division fought heavy defensive battles northeast of the city of Tim. They were especially strong near the village of Panskoye. Having exhausted the enemy, the division went on the offensive with the goal of destroying his Tim group.
With the beginning of the counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Moscow, the division as part of the Southwestern Front captured Nikolaevka, Koshelevo, Manturovo on December 11, and then, together with the 45th and 62nd rifle divisions, launched an attack on the city of Tim.
The enemy resisted especially stubbornly near the village of Karandakovo. In conditions of a snowy winter and severe frosts, the guards cut the Tim-Shchigry road, then battles began for Tim. The Nazis turned it into a strong defense stronghold. They offered the most fierce resistance at the Sokolya Plot, Rotten line. The rapid entry of the 127th Division to this line and its breakthrough put the Tim group in a difficult position. Fearing encirclement, leaving behind the dead and military equipment, the Nazis hastily began to leave Tim.

German soldiers killed at Stalingrad. February 1943. The author's title of the photo is “I was convinced to death.”

The corpses of killed or frozen German soldiers near Stalingrad.

Germans frozen alive.

German soldiers who died in Pillau (modern Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region).

The dead crew of the German tank PzKpfw IV.

A damaged Junkers Yu-87 (Ju 87), which made an emergency landing during which it crashed. Leningrad area.

The commander of the 56th Corps, General Helmut Weidling (left), the last commander of the defense of Berlin personally appointed by Hitler, surrendered to Soviet troops on May 2, together with his staff officers, May 1945.

German pilots in Soviet captivity.

German medium tanks PzKpfw IV (T-IV) destroyed in the Bobruisk offensive operation.
The Bobruisk offensive operation of the Soviet troops took place on June 24-29, 1944. During its course, 6 German divisions were surrounded - 40 thousand soldiers and officers (according to other sources - 70 thousand). All of them were destroyed or captured. On June 29, Soviet troops took the city of Bobruisk, where the 338th German Infantry Division was defending.

A traitor executed by partisans.

A German officer captured by scouts of the 49th Guards Rifle Division.

Dead German soldier.

Captured German sailors near Kerch. 1941

A German sergeant major explains to soldiers how to use the Faustpatron.

German prisoners of war on the streets of Berlin, captured by Soviet troops.

Shocked by the death of their submarine and being in the icy waters of the Atlantic, German submariners are on the deck of an American ship.

Dead German soldiers

Dr. Joseph Goebbels congratulates a young man from the “last” German conscription on being awarded the Iron Cross in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery. March 1945.

Soldiers of the German “last call” in the trenches. March 1945.

Burnt bodies of German soldiers dumped on the armor of the PzKpfw V "Panther" tank. An MG-42 machine gun is visible.

Chief of the General Staff of the German Ground Forces, Infantry Lieutenant General Hans Krebs, at the headquarters of the Soviet troops in Berlin. On May 1, Krebs arrived at the location of Soviet troops with the aim of involving the High Command in the negotiation process. On the same day, the general shot himself.

An SS man captured by the Allies.

A German corporal executed by partisans.

Major General Friedrich Kussin (1895-1944) was the commandant of the garrison of the city of Arnhem. On September 17, 1944, between 16 and 17 hours, at the Oosterbeek-Wolfheze road fork, his gray Citroen car was fired upon by soldiers of the 5th Platoon of the 3rd Parachute Battalion of the British. The general, his driver and orderly were killed on the spot.
Photographer Dennis Smith took this famous photo the day after Kussin's death. By this time, the body of the murdered man had been violated and scalped. In addition, insignia, awards and almost all buttons were torn off the general’s uniform.

Representative of the Supreme Command Headquarters Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky and commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front I.D. Chernyakhovsky is interrogated by the captured commander of the 53rd Army Corps, General of the Infantry Golvintser, and the commander of the 206th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General Zitger. Vitebsk area, 1944.

A German soldier, buried under the earth when an aerial bomb exploded nearby, tries to get out. He is really alive - there is a newsreel of this episode, where you can see how a soldier rakes the earth with his hand

Column of prisoners on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground are the “last hope of Germany” boys from the Hitler Youth and Volkssturm.

The graves of German soldiers are somewhere in the USSR.

A column of German prisoners walking through Moscow. 57 thousand people in columns of 600 people, 20 people at the front.

The march of German prisoners took place on July 17, 1944, demonstrating to the Soviet people, as well as to the allies who did not believe in the successes of the Red Army, the results of the defeat of German troops in Belarus. About 57,000 German soldiers and officers (including 19 generals), mostly captured in Belarus by the troops of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts, marched along the Garden Ring and other streets of Moscow.

March of captured Germans across Moscow - ahead of thousands of columns of soldiers and officers are a group of 19 German generals.

March of German prisoners through Moscow. In the photo, Germans are walking along the Crimean Bridge.

Sprinklers demonstratively wash the streets of Moscow with soap, symbolically washing away dirt from the asphalt after tens of thousands of German prisoners passed through Moscow.

Seventy-one years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad ended, the battle that finally changed the course of World War II. On February 2, 1943, German troops surrounded on the banks of the Volga capitulated. I dedicate this photo album to this significant event.

A Soviet pilot stands next to a personalized Yak-1B fighter, donated to the 291st Fighter Aviation Regiment by collective farmers of the Saratov region. The inscription on the fuselage of the fighter: “To the unit of the Hero of the Soviet Union Shishkin V.I. from the collective farm Signal of the Revolution, Voroshilovsky district, Saratov region." Winter 1942 - 1943

A Soviet pilot stands next to a personalized Yak-1B fighter, donated to the 291st Fighter Aviation Regiment by collective farmers of the Saratov region.

A Soviet soldier demonstrates to his comrades German guard boats, captured among other German property at Stalingrad. 1943

German 75-mm RaK 40 cannon on the outskirts of a village near Stalingrad.

A dog sits in the snow against the backdrop of a column of Italian troops retreating from Stalingrad. December 1942

Soviet soldiers walk past the corpses of German soldiers in Stalingrad. 1943

Soviet soldiers listen to an accordion player play near Stalingrad. 1943

Red Army soldiers go on the attack against the enemy near Stalingrad. 1942

Soviet infantry attacks the enemy near Stalingrad. 1943

Soviet field hospital near Stalingrad. 1942

A medical instructor bandages the head of a wounded soldier before sending him to a rear hospital on a dog sled. Stalingrad region. 1943

A captured German soldier in ersatz felt boots in a field near Stalingrad. 1943

Soviet soldiers in battle in the destroyed workshop of the Red October plant in Stalingrad. January 1943

Infantrymen of the 4th Romanian Army on vacation at the self-propelled gun StuG III Ausf. F on the road near Stalingrad. November-December 1942

The bodies of German soldiers on the road southwest of Stalingrad near an abandoned Renault AHS truck. February-April 1943

Captured German soldiers in the destroyed Stalingrad. 1943

Romanian soldiers with a 7.92 mm ZB-30 machine gun in a trench near Stalingrad.

An infantryman takes aim with a submachine gun while lying on the armor of an American-made Soviet tank M3 "Stuart" with the proper name "Suvorov". Don Front. Stalingrad region. November 1942

The commander of the Wehrmacht XI Army Corps, Colonel General Karl Strecker (Karl Strecker, 1884-1973, stands with his back in the center left) surrenders to representatives of the Soviet command in Stalingrad. 02/02/1943

A group of German infantry during an attack in the Stalingrad area. 1942

Civilians at the construction of anti-tank ditches. Stalingrad. 1942

One of the Red Army units in the Stalingrad area. 1942

At the crossing of the Volga to Stalingrad. 1942

Refugees from Stalingrad during a halt. September 1942

Guardsmen of Lieutenant Levchenko's reconnaissance company during reconnaissance on the outskirts of Stalingrad. 1942

The fighters take their starting positions. Stalingrad front. 1942

Evacuation of the plant beyond the Volga. Stalingrad. 1942

Burning Stalingrad. Anti-aircraft artillery fires at German planes. Stalingrad, "Fallen Fighters" Square. 1942

Meeting of the Military Council of the Stalingrad Front: from left to right - Khrushchev N.S., Kirichenko A.I., secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks) Chuyanov A.S.t and front commander Colonel General Eremenko A.I. Stalingrad. 1942

A group of machine gunners of the 120th (308th) Guards Rifle Division, under the command of A. Sergeev, conducts reconnaissance during street fighting in Stalingrad. 1942

Red Navy men of the Volga military flotilla during the landing operation in the Stalingrad area. 1942

Military Council of the 62nd Army: from left to right - Chief of Army Staff N.I. Krylov, Army Commander V.I. Chuikov, member of the Military Council K.A. Gurov. and commander of the 13th Guards Rifle Division A.I. Rodimtsev. District of Stalingrad. 1942

Soldiers of the 64th Army are fighting for a house in one of the districts of Stalingrad. 1942

Commander of the Don Front troops, Lieutenant General K.K. Rokossovsky. at a combat position in the region of Stalingrad. 1942

Battle in the Stalingrad area. 1942

Fight for a house on Gogol Street. 1943

Baking your own bread. . 1942

Fights in the city center. 1943

Assault on the railway station. 1943

Soldiers of the long-range gun of junior lieutenant I. Snegirev are firing from the left bank of the Volga. 1943

A military orderly carries a wounded Red Army soldier. Stalingrad. 1942

Soldiers of the Don Front are moving to a new firing line in the area of the encircled Stalingrad German group. 1943

Soviet sappers walk through the destroyed snow-covered Stalingrad. 1943

Captured Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957) gets out of a GAZ-M1 car at the headquarters of the 64th Army in Beketovka, Stalingrad region. 01/31/1943

Soviet soldiers climb the stairs of a destroyed house in Stalingrad. January 1943

Soviet troops in battle in Stalingrad. January 1943

Soviet soldiers in battle among destroyed buildings in Stalingrad. 1942

Soviet soldiers attack enemy positions in the Stalingrad area. January 1943

Italian and German prisoners leave Stalingrad after the surrender. February 1943

Soviet soldiers move through a destroyed factory workshop in Stalingrad during the battle.

Soviet light tank T-70 with armored troops on the Stalingrad front. November 1942

German artillerymen fire on the approaches to Stalingrad. In the foreground is a killed Red Army soldier in cover. 1942

Conducting political information in the 434th Fighter Wing. In the first row from left to right: Heroes of the Soviet Union, Senior Lieutenant I.F. Golubin, captain V.P. Babkov, Lieutenant N.A. Karnachenok (posthumously), standing regiment commissar, battalion commissar V.G. Strelmashchuk. In the background is a Yak-7B fighter with the inscription on the fuselage “Death for death!” July 1942

Wehrmacht infantry near the destroyed Barricades factory in Stalingrad.

Red Army soldiers with an accordion celebrate victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on the Square of Fallen Fighters in liberated Stalingrad. January
1943

Soviet mechanized unit during the offensive at Stalingrad. November 1942

Soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division of Colonel Vasily Sokolov at the Red October plant in the destroyed Stalingrad. December 1942

Soviet T-34/76 tanks near the Square of Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad. January 1943

German infantry takes cover behind stacks of steel blanks (blooms) at the Red October plant during the battle for Stalingrad. 1942

Sniper Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Zaitsev explains the upcoming task to the newcomers. Stalingrad. December 1942

Soviet snipers take up a firing position in the destroyed Stalingrad. The legendary sniper of the 284th Infantry Division Vasily Grigorievich Zaitsev and his students go into an ambush. December 1942.

Italian driver killed on the road near Stalingrad. Nearby is a FIAT SPA CL39 truck. February 1943

An unknown Soviet machine gunner with a PPSh-41 during the battles for Stalingrad. 1942

Red Army soldiers are fighting among the ruins of a destroyed workshop in Stalingrad. November 1942

Red Army soldiers are fighting among the ruins of a destroyed workshop in Stalingrad. 1942

German prisoners of war captured by the Red Army at Stalingrad. January 1943

Crew of the Soviet 76-mm divisional gun ZiS-3 at a position near the Red October plant in Stalingrad. 12/10/1942

An unknown Soviet machine gunner with a DP-27 in one of the destroyed houses in Stalingrad. 12/10/1942

Soviet artillery fires at surrounded German troops in Stalingrad. Presumably in the foreground is a 76-mm regimental gun of the 1927 model. January 1943

Soviet Il-2 attack aircraft take off on a combat mission near Stalingrad. January 1943

Fighter pilot of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 220th Fighter Aviation Division of the 16th Air Army of the Stalingrad Front, Sergeant Ilya Mikhailovich Chumbaryov, near the wreckage of a German Focke-Wulf Fw 189 reconnaissance aircraft that he shot down with a ram.

Soviet artillerymen fire at German positions in Stalingrad from a 152-mm ML-20 howitzer gun, model 1937. January 1943

The crew of the Soviet 76.2 mm ZiS-3 cannon fires in Stalingrad. November 1942

Soviet soldiers sit by the fire during a moment of calm in Stalingrad. The second soldier from the left has a captured German MP-40 submachine gun. 01/07/1943

Cinematographer Valentin Ivanovich Orlyankin (1906-1999) in Stalingrad. 1943

Commander of the Marine assault group P. Golberg in one of the workshops of the destroyed Barricades plant. 1943

Red Army soldiers fight on the ruins of a building in Stalingrad. 1942

Portrait of Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler in the area of the Barricades plant in Stalingrad.

Residents of a Soviet village, previously occupied by the Germans, meet the crew of a T-60 light tank from the Soviet liberating forces. Stalingrad area. February 1943

Soviet troops on the offensive near Stalingrad, in the foreground are the famous Katyusha rocket launchers, behind are T-34 tanks.

Soviet troops are on the offensive, in the foreground is a horse-drawn cart with food, behind are Soviet T-34 tanks. Stalingrad front.

Soviet soldiers attack with the support of T-34 tanks near the city of Kalach. November 1942

Soldiers of the 13th Guards Rifle Division in Stalingrad during rest hours. December 1942

Soviet T-34 tanks with armored soldiers on the march in the snowy steppe during the Stalingrad strategic offensive operation. November 1942

Soviet T-34 tanks with armored soldiers on the march in the snowy steppe during the Middle Don offensive operation. December 1942

Tankers of the 24th Soviet Tank Corps (from December 26, 1942 - 2nd Guards) on the armor of a T-34 tank during the liquidation of a group of German troops surrounded near Stalingrad. December 1942

The crew of a Soviet 120-mm regimental mortar from the mortar battery of battalion commander Bezdetko fires at the enemy. Stalingrad region. 01/22/1943

The captured Field Marshal Paulus and his adjutant are escorted to the headquarters of the 64th Army. 01/31/1943

Soviet generals (two lieutenant generals and a major general) talk with soldiers near a German Pz.Kpfw tank captured at Stalingrad. III Ausf. L. 1942

The German Pz.Kpfw tank captured near Stalingrad. III Ausf. L. 1942

Captured Red Army soldiers who died from hunger and cold. The prisoner of war camp was located in the village of Bolshaya Rossoshka near Stalingrad. January 1943

German Heinkel He-177A-5 bombers from I./KG 50 at the airfield in Zaporozhye. These bombers were used to supply German troops surrounded at Stalingrad. January 1943

Romanian prisoners of war captured near the village of Raspopinskaya near the city of Kalach. November-December 1942

GAZ-MM trucks, used as fuel tankers, during refueling at one of the stations near Stalingrad. The engine hoods are covered with covers, and instead of doors there are canvas flaps. Don Front, winter 1942-1943.

Information about the war can be obtained from many sources. Archives are being declassified, scientific and historical studies are being published, participants in the events are publishing memoirs, and finally, there are documentary newsreels. However, there is another valuable source of information. We are talking about front-line photography. The photograph allows you to capture the feelings and emotions of a soldier in everyday life in combat. Photography, like nothing else, is capable of reflecting all the horror, meaninglessness and tragedy of war. Sometimes front-line photography says more than archival documents.

Below are front-line photographs of soldiers and officers of the 6th Wehrmacht Army that participated in the Battle of Stalingrad.

ON THE APPROACHES TO STALINGRAD

1) Nothing portends trouble. Crossing of the 3rd motorized division across the Don. While the offensive is developing successfully, July-August 1942.

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4) Halt. August 1942.

FIGHTING IN THE CITY

5) German infantry captured the Red October plant in Stalingrad.

6) German infantry is preparing to attack

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8) Mortar crew near a damaged T-34 tank.

9) Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler gives orders to the non-commissioned officers of the 305th Division. The one standing on the left can see a captured Soviet PPSh. Hauptmann would be captured in February 1943 and die in a prisoner of war camp in Beketovka.

10) Friedrich Winkler. A typical image of an officer - commander of assault infantry groups. Usually, Wehrmacht officers liked to take pretentious staged photos against the backdrop of damaged Soviet equipment. Here the situation is different: a haggard, unshaven face, a tired look, concentration and maximum attention.

11) Chief lieutenant with PPSh. There are often photos of Wehrmacht soldiers and officers using captured PPSh, which have proven themselves to be excellent in close combat conditions in the city.

12) The machine gun crew changes position.

13) A German infantryman plants a flag on one of the buildings in Stalingrad. So far everything is going well...

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15) In rare moments of calm.

16) Halt in the bakery area, September 1942

17) Street fight.

18) The officer gives commands to the non-commissioned officers (judging by the patch on the far right and the binoculars of everyone else). Maximum concentrated faces. A typical front-line photo, you can feel the tense situation before the battle.

19) Infantry near the destroyed "Barricades" plant

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21) Wounded before being sent from Stalingrad.

22) Artillery crew.

DEFEAT

RESULTS

28) Captured Germans

29) Instead of shoes there are solid scraps...

30) Column of captured Germans, Italians, Romanians.

31) Children go along with the prisoners in the column. Apparently, they are being sent to the rear. The child has a package visible, presumably a supply of food.

32) Meaningful photo... A column of Germans walks quietly, not paying attention to their dead comrade. Apparently, trucks had already driven over the corpse several times.

33) Captured commander of the 6th Army, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus.

34) Legendary photo, one of the visual photographic symbols of the victory of the Red Army. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (left), Chief of Staff of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Arthur Schmidt and Paulus' adjutant Wilhelm Adam in captivity.

35) The senior command staff of the 6th Army, captured in Stalingrad.

36) Cemetery of soldiers and officers. There were hundreds of such cemeteries in the Stalingrad area.

37) All the horror of the war is on the faces of the prisoners of war, who miraculously did not die from the cold.

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39) And finally, helmets... The 6th Army collapsed at Stalingrad.

Information about the war can be obtained from many sources. Archives are being declassified, scientific and historical studies are being published, participants in the events are publishing memoirs, and finally, there are documentary newsreels. However, there is another valuable source of information. We are talking about front-line photography. The photograph allows you to capture the feelings and emotions of a soldier in everyday life in combat. Photography, like nothing else, is capable of reflecting all the horror, senselessness and tragedy of war. Sometimes front-line photography says more than archival documents.

Below are front-line photographs of soldiers and officers of the 6th Wehrmacht Army that participated in the Battle of Stalingrad.

ON THE APPROACHES TO STALINGRAD

1) Nothing portends trouble. Crossing of the 3rd motorized division across the Don. While the offensive is developing successfully, July-August 1942.

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3)

4) Halt. August 1942.

FIGHTING IN THE CITY

DEFEAT

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70 years of Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad

The other day marked 70 years since the end of the Battle of Stalingrad - one of the largest battles in the history of World War II. The defeat of the enemy during the heroic defense of Stalingrad, which lasted six months, became the turning point of the war, after which the fascist troops finally lost the strategic initiative.

The Battle of Stalingrad included the Wehrmacht's attempt to capture the left bank of the Volga in the area of Stalingrad (modern Volgograd) and the city itself, the confrontation between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in the city, and the Red Army counteroffensive (Operation Uranus), which resulted in the 6th Army and other Allied forces The Germans in and around the city were surrounded, some were destroyed, and some were captured. According to rough estimates, the total losses of both sides in this battle are about two million people.

Here is a photo chronicle of that time.

Soviet machine gunners fight on the destroyed streets of Stalingrad.

Tanks and armored vehicles of the 24th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht go on the offensive towards Stalingrad

Soviet soldiers fight in the ruins of Stalingrad houses.

German soldiers watch artillery shelling of Soviet positions in Stalingrad.

Red Army soldiers clean their weapons near a dugout in Stalingrad.

A group of Soviet sappers with probes is sent to clear mines in the center of the destroyed Stalingrad.

A Red Army soldier pulls a wounded comrade out of the battlefield on the outskirts of Stalingrad.

A worker at the Stalingrad Red October plant with a DT-29 machine gun

Red Army soldiers are fighting among the destroyed buildings of Stalingrad.

German soldiers make their way through the generator room of a destroyed power plant in Stalingrad.

Panzergrenadiers of the 16th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht, who reached the banks of the Volga near Stalingrad.

A Soviet crew of a 50mm company mortar fires in Stalingrad.

Residents of Stalingrad prepare food near the ruins of their house, destroyed by German bombing.

Two residents of Stalingrad carry their belongings on a bicycle as they leave the city.

Two residents of Stalingrad carry their belongings in a wheelbarrow, leaving the destroyed city.

Soviet soldiers defend the Red October plant during the Battle of Stalingrad.

A crashed German Messerschmitt fighter in Stalingrad, autumn 1942. Refugees with belongings are passing by the plane, leaving the city. Barrage balloons hang in the sky.

Tanks of the 24th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht on the approaches to Stalingrad.

The first bombing of Stalingrad. Residents watch the fires.

Evacuation of wounded soldiers on a U-2 plane in the Stalingrad area. To transport the wounded, cassettes mounted on the lower wings are used. The cassettes consisted of a platform for stretchers and a light roof over them.

Stalingrad. The first fascist air raids.

Photo of Stalingrad from the air, 1942

German soldiers are fighting in the streets.

Soviet intelligence officer N. Romanov with a machine gun and four grenades.

Soldiers of the 13th Guards Rifle Division during rest hours, Stalingrad.

The Soviet ZiS-3 cannon fires at the enemy. Autumn 1942, Stalingrad.

Fountain "Children's round dance" on the station square of Stalingrad after a fascist air raid. The station was bombed on August 23, 1942.

Red Army soldiers defend a house in Stalingrad, autumn 1942.

Children in Stalingrad are hiding from bombing German planes.

Captured German generals and other officers of the 6th Wehrmacht Army in Stalingrad, January 1943.

German prisoners in the Stalingrad area.

German soldiers walk past burnt-out trams on a street in Stalingrad.

Soviet soldiers attach a flag to a building in the center of Stalingrad.

German soldiers are waiting for a signal to attack in a Soviet anti-tank ditch.

Evacuation of wounded Soviet soldiers. Factory "Barricades", Stalingrad.

A mountain of horse hooves eaten by the Germans surrounded in Stalingrad. After the German 6th Army was encircled near Stalingrad and its food supply routes were cut off, famine began among the German troops. The Germans ate all the livestock of local residents, all domestic animals and horses killed during the battles in Stalingrad.

A smoke break for Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad.

A medical instructor assists a wounded Red Army soldier during the battle in Stalingrad.

Defenders of the Barrikady plant are moving to fighting positions. The fighter in the foreground carries an anti-tank rifle on his shoulder.

Soviet soldiers are fighting in one of the workshops of the Red October plant. Meter by meter the fighters are retaking the factory territory.

Place in Stalingrad near the station after the battles, 1942.

Commander of the 3rd battalion of the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment E.A. Zhukov listens to the report of his intelligence officer.

The famous heroic “Pavlov’s House” during the Battle of Stalingrad.

A Soviet soldier fights in the ruins of Stalingrad.

Attack of Soviet soldiers on a destroyed house captured by German troops in Stalingrad.

German soldiers in the Stalingrad “cauldron”, December 1942

Soviet soldiers are fighting in Stalingrad.

A German soldier cleans his carbine during a short break between battles in Stalingrad. Autumn 1942.

The reconnaissance group of the 39th Guards Rifle Division is leaving for a combat mission. Factory "Red October", Stalingrad.

Stalingrad after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. The wreck of a downed German He-111 bomber.

Captured Field Marshal Paulus with officers from his headquarters at Stalingrad.

Soviet armor-piercing soldiers in the Stalingrad area.

Soviet soldiers rejoice to commemorate the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad.

The ruins of Stalingrad from a bird's eye view.

Soviet soldier-traffic controller in liberated Stalingrad.

A shot down German Messerschmitt fighter in the center of Stalingrad. Summer 1943.

The red flag over the square of the fallen fighters of the liberated Stalingrad. In the background is the department store building where the headquarters of the encircled 6th Wehrmacht Army, led by army commander Field Marshal Paulus, was captured. On the square are German trucks captured by Soviet troops.

May Day demonstration in the destroyed Stalingrad, 1943

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Front-line photography: the collapse of the 6th Wehrmacht Army in Stalingrad

ON THE APPROACHES TO STALINGRAD

1) Nothing portends trouble. Crossing of the 3rd motorized division across the Don. While the offensive is developing successfully, July-August 1942.

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4) Halt. August 1942.

FIGHTING IN THE CITY

DEFEAT

23) Destroyed German Pz.Kpfw tank. III and the dead crew. Please note that next to the one lying on the lower right there is a helmet (was he riding on the armor of a tank?).

24) Killed Germans. In the background is a cemetery for Wehrmacht soldiers...

25) A murdered German against the background of a road sign. On the top plate there is a significant inscription Stalingrad...

26) Dead Germans with signs of frostbite. 31) Children go along with the prisoners in the column. Apparently, they are being sent to the rear. The child has a package visible, presumably a supply of food.

32) Meaningful photo... A column of Germans walks quietly, not paying attention to their dead comrade. Apparently, trucks had already driven over the corpse several times.

33) Captured commander of the 6th Army, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus.

34) Legendary photo, one of the visual photographic symbols of the victory of the Red Army. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (left), Chief of Staff of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Arthur Schmidt and Paulus' adjutant Wilhelm Adam in captivity.

35) The senior command staff of the 6th Army, captured in Stalingrad.

36) Cemetery of soldiers and officers. There were hundreds of such cemeteries in the Stalingrad area.

37) All the horror of the war is on the faces of the prisoners of war, who miraculously did not die from the cold.

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39) And finally, helmets... The 6th Army collapsed at Stalingrad.