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Posts tagged “German solider”

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German soldiers moving a 17cm medium minenwerfer into position in France; ca. 1917

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November 11, 2014 | Categories: 20th Century Germany, European History, European Warfare 1789-1918, History, Human History, Images of History, Life under siege, Military History, Modern Warfare, Photography, Trench Warfare, World War One | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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From his mount a German horseman views an early airplane at Tempelhofer Feld (Tempelhof’s Airfield) Berlin; ca. 1900s

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June 21, 2014 | Categories: 20th Century Germany, Aviation, European History, History, Human History, Images of History, Military Aviation, Military History, Modern Warfare, Photography, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, Weird | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Frozen German soldier’s corpse placed in a pose, Eastern Front, WWII, 1942

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified is not a crime. Ask the infantry and the dead." - Ernest Hemingway

       “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified is not a crime. Ask the infantry and the dead.”                         – Ernest Hemingway

Vasily Grossman, (a journalist with the Red Army), near Moscow: “Germans, frozen to death, line the roads. Practical jokers put them in fanciful poses.”

 

January 7, 2014 | Categories: History, Nightmares of World War II, Photography, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, World War Two | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment