Vov 1941 45 in photographs. War Album: Chronicles of World War II
A series of documentary photographs dedicated to the Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. A selection of 95 rare photographs of military equipment and participants in the Second World War. A unique photo from the scenes of 1941-1945, military operations in the history of black and white photography. Watch online documentary photo of the Second World War 1941-1945.
Junior Sergeant Konstantin Alexandrovich Shuty (06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shutoy, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.
Junior sergeant, mortar - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kiev. 1st Ukrainian Front.
Marine of the US 5th Division, shot in the head by a Japanese sniper (you can see the bullet hole on the helmet).
Sailors of the Soviet destroyer of project 7 "Crushing" with a ship's pet, the area of the bow torpedo tubes, a view of the bow.
German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber under repair at a field airfield.
The beginning of the counterattack of one of the units of the 270th Infantry Division of the Soviet 7th Guards Army on the Kursk Bulge.
Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front, future leader of the USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade.
Head of Communications of the 51st MTAP Bykov V.V. instructs gunners-radio operators 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 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 are sergeant's shoulder straps, in the hands of a Mosin rifle with a PU optical sight (Shortened Sight).
An unknown 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 a BAR automatic rifle.
German 105-mm self-propelled guns "Vespe" (Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe) from the 74th regiment of self-propelled artillery of the 2nd tank division of the Wehrmacht, passes next to an abandoned Soviet 76-mm gun ZIS-3 near the city of Orel.
German self-propelled guns "Vespe" after being hit by a large-caliber projectile.
German self-propelled guns "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
German self-propelled guns Marder II in ambush, between houses, in a Ukrainian village.
German quad 20-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (ZSU) "Werbelwind" based on the tank Pz.Kpfw. IV, destroyed by a direct hit by 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 choose bottles of alcoholic beverages in a warehouse.
German soldiers in a captured Soviet T-34 tank. The machine is ready for shipment to Germany for testing. The inscription “O.K.H.Wa. Prvf. 6" (military acceptance 6).
German soldiers inspect the captured positions of Soviet troops.
Another solid portion of retro photos in the project 20th century in color photographs.
Today we will look at what the world was like many years ago. More precisely, not the world, but.
In general, there are a lot of color photographs of 1941. The Germans shot on Agfa (Agfacolor) film, the Americans and the British on Kodachrome. Soviet color photographs of the Great Patriotic War are not known.
As you know, the German attack on the USSR was immediately preceded by a blitzkrieg against Yugoslavia. The operation lasted from April 6 to April 17, 1941 and ended on April 17 with the surrender of this Balkan kingdom.
Parts of the 14th motorized corps of the Wehrmacht in the Serbian city of Nis, April 1941:
At the same time, the Germans in April 1941 captured Greece. Raising the Nazi flag over the Acropolis:
In 1941, the so-called " Battle for England» - air war between Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Some scenes of this war were captured by the famous photographer Robert Capa.
Here we see a damaged British Blenheim bomber that managed to make an emergency landing on its territory:
The Anglo-German war was also going on at sea.
The German battleship Scharnhorst at the end of Operation Berlin, during which 8 British transport ships were sunk in the North Atlantic, March 1941:
Outside of Europe, from the very beginning of 1941, there were battles in the African theater. Back in December 1940, the British from Egypt went on the offensive against the Italian grouping in Libya and inflicted a significant defeat on it.
During February 1941, German troops under the command of General Rommel were transferred to Libya, which led to a halt in the further advance of the British. And already at the end of March, Rommel's units went on the offensive.
A column of German troops in Paris, 1941. photographer Andre Zucca:
The Germans parade on captured French tanks in Paris, 1941:
Hitler and the generals inspecting the 800-mm "Fat Gustav" gun in 1941:
The “Fat Gustav” gun weighed 1344 tons and some parts had to be dismantled to move it along the railway tracks. The gun was as high as a four-story house, had a width of 6 meters and a length of 42 meters. The maintenance of the Fat Gustav gun was carried out by a team of 500 people under the command of a high-ranking army rank. The team needed almost three days of time to prepare the gun for firing.
A high-explosive projectile from this gun could hit a target at a distance of 45 kilometers.
May 1941 Equipment of the 6th German Panzer Division in East Prussia before the invasion of the USSR:
German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop at a press conference in Berlin announces the start of the war against the Soviet Union:
In 1941, the Wehrmacht had about one and a half million cameras in their backpacks.
German soldiers, officers and photojournalists meticulously recorded every step on Soviet soil. Of course, they especially liked to shoot trophies and broken equipment of the Red Army.
Soviet tank T-28:
The Nazis inspect the Soviet T-34 tank:
Soviet tank KV-2 shot down in the battle for the city of Ostrov, July 1941:
The battlefield near Ostrov, early July 1941:
Damaged Soviet I-16 fighter:
Damaged Soviet fighters I-153 Chaika:
On their sector of the front, the Finns also filmed, often in color.
Burnt Soviet armored car on the Karelian Isthmus, 1941:
Germans in Grodno, June 1941:
Germans in Lithuania, June 1941:
The bell tower will be restored only in 1973.
July 41st:
Soviet prisoners of war:
In September 1941, the Germans captured Kyiv:
In the 20th of September, the enemy took Peterhof:
On October 2, 1941, Petrozavodsk was occupied by the Finnish Karelian Army and renamed Äänislinna:
Advanced German units of the 11th Panzer Division near Volokolamsk, November 1941:
This is where their Blitzkrieg came to an end.
Now a small satellite gallery of Nazi Germany in 1941.
Soldiers of the Spanish "Blue Division", which fought against the USSR near Novgorod and Leningrad, 1941:
Soldiers of the French Volunteer Legion, 1941:
Having defeated Yugoslavia, the Germans created on part of its territory a puppet "Independent State of Croatia", whose army became one of Hitler's most zealous satellites.
In this picture, the commander of the Croatian ground forces, General Slavko Shtanzer, 1941:
On December 7, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. World War II opened a new theater in the Pacific.
A light boat takes part in the rescue of the crew of the battleship West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941:
According to Hawaiian tradition, American sailors honor the memory of their fallen comrades after the shelling of Pearl Harbor, 1941: 
Since December 41st, the Japanese have waged a simultaneous war against the Americans, the British and the Chinese. The war with the latter began in 1937.
The Japanese did not have a color film, so you have to be content with colored pictures.
Japanese light tank Type 97 Te-Ke against the backdrop of a burning house in China, 1941:
Acting on an unimaginably vast area, the Japanese in 1941 captured French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies (now the territory of Indonesia).
Soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division of Japan in occupied Saigon, December 1941:
Japanese battleship "Hiei2" at sunset in Saeki Bay, 1941:
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.
Faces of Jewish children in the ghetto of the Polish city of Shidlovets, occupied by the Nazis. December 20, 1940.
The execution of Kyiv 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 who was collecting documents testifying to 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."
In this photograph, which the Associated Press received from a neutral on September 25, 1942, we see a bomb just dropped from an aircraft 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
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 died of starvation. The scarcity of medical equipment and supplies made every illness and injury much more deadly.
Tank cemetery at the site of the Battle of Rzhev, December 21, 1942. They say that there are about two thousand tanks in this cemetery.
A Russian woman looks at a burning house. 1942
German soldiers walk through a destroyed power plant in Stalingrad's factory district. December 28, 1942.
A Soviet T-34 tank races through the Square of the Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad. January 1943.
Soviet infantrymen on the snowy hills around Stalingrad in preparation for an operation to lift the siege of the city. Early 1943.
As a result, the Red Army surrounded the enemy; about 300 thousand German and Romanian soldiers were taken prisoner.
A Soviet soldier guards a German prisoner. February 1943.
A few months after being surrounded by Soviet troops, the remnants of the German Sixth Army capitulated. By this time, about 200 thousand people had died in battles and from starvation.
Soviet soldiers, lying on their backs, shoot at enemy aircraft with rifles. June 1943.
Soldiers of the Red Army in a trench, over which a Russian T-34 tank passes. Battle of Kursk, 1943.
A Soviet lieutenant somewhere near Kursk distributes cigarettes to German prisoners. July 1943.
A unit of B-24s from the US 15th Air Force bombs railroad 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 in 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. Outskirts of Bra, Belgium, December 24, 1944.
This schoolteacher from the Aosta Valley and her husband are fighting in Italy in the area of the Petit St. Bernard Pass. January 4, 1945.
The activities of the Italian Maquis are little known outside of Italy, although they have been fighting the fascist regime since 1927, under constant danger. Their targets were the Germans and Italian fascists, and the battlefield was the snow-covered Alps on the border of France and Italy.
These photographs show the reaction of a 16-year-old German soldier taken prisoner by US forces. Somewhere in Germany, 1945.
An unidentified American soldier, shot by a German sniper, continues to clutch a rifle and a hand grenade. Koblenz, Germany, March 1945.
View from the town hall of Dresden on the Old Town, destroyed by the Allied bombing from 13 to 15 February 1945.
3.6 thousand aircraft dropped more than 3.9 thousand tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary shells on the city. The result was a firestorm that burned 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.
An elderly Czech woman, overwhelmed by her emotions, kisses a Russian soldier, thanking him for liberation 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 for Berlin. The photograph did not capture the original moment, but a later re-enactment, sparking controversy over the ethics of the reporter and the authenticity of documentary photography.
Victory celebration on Red Square in Moscow. On May 9, 1945, fireworks were arranged, accompanied by flashes of shots and 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 Nazi Party conventions. The last event was scheduled for 1939 and canceled at the last minute due to the fact that the invasion of Poland was to start the next day. The city was also the birthplace of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws, which infringed on the rights of the Jews of Nazi Germany. From 1943 to 1945, more than 90% of the city center was destroyed by bombing and more than 6,000 inhabitants were killed. Soon Nuremberg would 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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The third part of the collection of photographs of the Second World War. It is worth talking about those photographers who left these photos for future generations. Indeed, it is thanks to them that we still do not forget, remember and sacredly honor that holy war against. Photography and video filming have left us with clear evidence of the existing hostilities against peace throughout the world.
Who were these photographers? Undoubtedly, brave and determined people. They went into the fiery hell along with the soldiers and sat in a trench under fire. How many of them died on the battlefields, and what motives prompted them to such bold deeds, we will never know. Most of the pictures presented here in and subsequent collections were taken by photographers Natalia Bode, G. Markov, Y. Ryumkin, M. Savin, E. Khaldei, but there were many others, those whose names are forever forgotten for people, but the memory in the photographs has already remained. Just like the faces in their black and white photos, unknown soldiers with weapons in their hands.
22.11.2016
Don't forget to tell your friends
Wars should not have a place in a civilized society, but they, big or small, are constantly being waged. We have all seen many photographs of the Great Patriotic War. Photojournalists, risking their lives along with the military, were able to leave us a lot of evidence, thanks to which we can plunge into history ...
Russian prisoners of war. Lithuania, Vilna, 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 to understand that page of our history.
Captured Russian officer. Summer, 1941
Soldiers on a landing boat. Summer, 1942
Captured during Operation Citadel. Summer, 1943
Motorized Squad. Summer, 1943
SS officer. 1944
SS troops at rest. 1944
Rocket mortars. Summer, 1942
Caterpillar tractors and guns. March-April 1944.
German SS cavalry. July 16, 1941.
A column of Russian prisoners. July 1941
Tank officer. Summer 1941.
Tankers. Summer 1941.
Conversing soldiers. Summer 1941.
Himmler in Kharkov. 1942-1943
Himmler with officers. 1942-1943
Soldiers from the ditch fire from a grenade launcher. Summer 1941.
A column of German StuG III assault guns on the march to the Caucasus.
A column of Soviet prisoners of war. In the center is a fleeing soldier - perhaps trying to escape.
Column of tanks of the SS division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" near Kharkov. The third battle for Kharkov.
The commander of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Viking" Standartenführer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with a fox terrier in the Kovel area.
The commander distributes cigarettes to his soldiers. Pomerania, late February 1945.
Commander of the Red Army before execution. August-September 1941, Ukraine
Tankers examine the trace of a Soviet shell on the armor of their tank.
The commander of the Finnish squadron at the Utti airfield near the Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter
German soldiers inspect a Soviet Ar-2 dive bomber shot down near Demyansk. Very rare car (only about 200 pieces were produced).
German soldiers cross the state border of the USSR.
German soldiers pose in front of the giant French tank Char 2C.
