Unpublished German photographs of the war in Russia

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Unpublished German photographs of the war in Russia

Posted: 8/11/2011 2:38:48 PM EDT

Good series I found on the tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Vqb30JZQs&feature=player_profilepage

Posted: 8/11/2011 2:47:38 PM EDT

[#1]

Thanks.

Posted: 8/11/2011 2:54:18 PM EDT

[#2]

Always interesting

Posted: 8/11/2011 2:57:27 PM EDT

[#3]

hm. what a waste.

Posted: 8/11/2011 3:00:28 PM EDT

[#4]

Brutal

Posted: 8/11/2011 3:14:06 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Brutal

Indeed

Posted: 8/11/2011 3:44:11 PM EDT

[#6]

Brutal

War is hell.

It would be interesting to know what the signs read on the corpses hanging at the 2:19 mark, and I'm still trying to make sense of the pic at 5:52.

Posted: 8/11/2011 3:44:31 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Always interesting

Posted: 8/11/2011 4:44:30 PM EDT

[#8]

My great uncle commanded an infantry division on the Eastern front. After the Sixth Army surrendered, he was interrogated by the NKVD. After four days, he signed a confession and spent the next 14 years in Siberia. He was eventually repatriated to West Germany. There have been some interesting observations of history in our family.

Posted: 8/11/2011 6:59:56 PM EDT

[#9]

Not many POWs from the Sixth Army made it out of Russia. Out of the 90,000 + who surrendered less than 6k made it back to Germany.

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:08:02 PM EDT

[#10]

Wow those photographs are eye-opening. War is hell.

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:13:14 PM EDT

[#11]

cool

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:23:13 PM EDT

[#12]

Ghosts. Most, if not all, those men died.

A lot of suffering.

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:35:51 PM EDT

[#13]

According to the section of the German Red Cross dealing with tracing the captives, the ultimate fate of 1,300,000 German POW's in Allied custody is still unknown; they are still officially listed as missing.

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:45:15 PM EDT

[#14]

The pix at 0:56 brought goose bumps. My wife's grandmother was put on a west bound train out of Minsk since she was Jewish. She was never heard from again.

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:47:57 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
According to the section of the German Red Cross dealing with tracing the captives, the ultimate fate of 1,300,000 German POW's in Allied custody is still unknown; they are still officially listed as missing.

What % of that was captured by the Russians? Remember seeing a pix of some Russians holding down German prisoners and doing their usual wooden mallet hammering a bullet into the head execution on them.

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:51:18 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
According to the section of the German Red Cross dealing with tracing the captives, the ultimate fate of 1,300,000 German POW's in Allied custody is still unknown; they are still officially listed as missing.

What % of that was captured by the Russians? Remember seeing a pix of some Russians holding down German prisoners and doing their usual wooden mallet hammering a bullet into the head execution on them.

Holy fucking shit, I've never heard of that.

Do you have a link?

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:51:45 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Brutal

that is what came to mind.

I have heard many stories from my grandfather when I visited him over the summer each year - he lived in Bavaria.

I am sure glad I was not around and had to be in this war.

Posted: 8/11/2011 7:57:21 PM EDT

[#18]

http://nobeliefs.com/mementoes/buckle.jpeg
I don't think so.

My Grandfather was in WWII. We always talk about the war when we are together. Our last convo realliy hit me and I felt the reality of the war, he said god bless Hitler right in front of me. He's still alive and well at 90 years of age.

Posted: 8/11/2011 8:00:04 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

My great uncle commanded an infantry division on the Eastern front. After the Sixth Army surrendered, he was interrogated by the NKVD. After four days, he signed a confession and spent the next 14 years in Siberia. He was eventually repatriated to West Germany. There have been some interesting observations of history in our family.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c116/Oblio13/images-1.jpg

Wow that's interesting and thanks for sharing.

Posted: 8/11/2011 8:06:09 PM EDT

[#20]

My uncle was killed in Poland. A mortar round took off most of his shoulder. We still have the letter from the field doctor to my grandfather who was also a physician. The end, loosely translated went something like "please take comfort your son died defending the Fatherland from the grey wave of Bolshevism from the East. Heil Hitler."

It was winter, they couldn't even bury them in the ground. They were mound graves.

Posted: 8/12/2011 5:53:40 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
According to the section of the German Red Cross dealing with tracing the captives, the ultimate fate of 1,300,000 German POW's in Allied custody is still unknown; they are still officially listed as missing.

What % of that was captured by the Russians? Remember seeing a pix of some Russians holding down German prisoners and doing their usual wooden mallet hammering a bullet into the head execution on them.

Holy fucking shit, I've never heard of that.

Do you have a link?

When I was in high school, the PC much less the interwebz wasn't invented yet.

It was in a Time magazine book on WWII that was in the school library.

Posted: 8/12/2011 5:57:55 AM EDT

[#22]

tag

Posted: 8/12/2011 6:00:40 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Brutal

War is hell.

It would be interesting to know what the signs read on the corpses hanging at the 2:19 mark, and I'm still trying to make sense of the pic at 5:52.

If I remember right, it basically condemned them for working/sympathyzing with the Germans.

Posted: 8/12/2011 7:29:55 AM EDT

[#24]

Pictures like those are one reason why I dread the day of another world war.

Posted: 8/12/2011 7:39:09 AM EDT

[#25]

Very interesting.

I purchased a book years ago called "Wenn alle Bruder schweigen" - English translation "When all our brothers are silent" ... it has over a thousand photos in it like that.

Posted: 8/12/2011 7:48:23 AM EDT

[#26]

Such a waste of life and resources. My Grandmother was right when she said the world changed for the worse from WWII.

Posted: 8/12/2011 9:37:41 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Thanks.

Posted: 8/12/2011 9:38:46 AM EDT

[#28]

That was pretty cool. Thanks for the link.

Posted: 8/12/2011 10:35:01 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Such a waste of life and resources. My Grandmother was right when she said the world changed for the worse from WWII.

I've been mentally digesting that statement and I'm not convinced, yet. Consider WWI, the destruction and loss of life. Consider the wars before and since. War, destruction, famine, natural disaster, etc have been around for milenia. I just don't see WWII changing the fundamentals that much.

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