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Ingrid

Ingrid, queen, Denmark, Gemahlin von Koenig Frederik IX. von Daenemark

Bautzen

Bautzen, cities in East Germany, since 1945

Karl Doenitz in the gangway of the 'Patria', 1945

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz leaves on the gangway his yacht 'Patria', in May 1945, seat of the government Doenitz. He surrendered to the Allies, who thus ended the activities of an independent German government.

German anti-aircraft during the offensive in Hungary, 1945

Soldiers of the Waffen SS fire a 2cm four-barreled antiaircraft gun 38 on Soviet troops during the offensive 'Konrad III'.

General field marshall Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender on behalf of the Wehrmacht in the headquarter of the soviet army in Berlin in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8th May 1

in the HQ of the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Berlin-Karlshorst, Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946) field marshal and head of German Armed Forces High Command during World War II,

Alfred Jodl at the surrender of the Armed Forces in Reims

General Alfred Jodl (standing) after the signing of the unconditional surrender of the German Armed Forces in the headquarters of General Eisenhower in Reims on May 7, 1945. On the left is Colonel Oxenius and right is General Admiral Friedeburg.

Ferndinnad Schoerner's call for the end of the war, 1945

After Hitler's death, Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner issues an appeal to the soldiers of Heeresgruppe Mitte, calling for discipline and to stay with the troops.

Potsdamer Platz, 1945

Potsdamer Platz end of May 1945. In the foreground a destroyed anti-aircraft gun. In the background Potsdamer station.

Destroyed houses in Berlin, 1945

View of devastated rows of houses on the Landwehr Canal during violent street battles in the Battle of Berlin.

Second World War: Elbe Day in Torgau and other places

Second World War: American forces link up with Red Army forces on Elbe Day in the city of Torgau and other places

Adolf Hitler with Hitler Youth, 1945

Exposure date: 20.04.1945 Adolf Hitler greets in the garden of the Reich Chancellery members of the Hitler Youth after their Iron Cross honoring. Far left is Reich Youth Leader Artur Axmann.

German soldiers in a position in Berlin, 1945

Soldiers with a machine gun MG 42 in a trench ahead of Berlin.

German soldiers in Slovakia, 1945

In the last weeks of the war, some German units are moving through Slovakia. Here, a carriage in the Slovak mountains. Photo of the Propaganda Company (PK): War correspondent Waske.

German soldiers climb on their armored personnel carrier, 1945

Soldiers climb into an armored fighting vehicle Sdkfz.251/1.

Wehrmacht soldiers with Panzerschreck in East Prussia, 1945

Two soldiers of the Wehrmacht wait for the attack of Soviet tanks in a camouflaged position with a "bazooka".

German position along the Oder, 1945

The commander of an infantry battalion at an anti-aircraft gun in a trench on the Oder front.

NS-Schwesternschaft (NS Nursing Staff)

A nurse of a community nursing ward in the Alps is visiting a farm to look after a little boy.

Volkssturm in action on the Eastern Front, 1945

A battalion commander of a Volkssturm unit controls the positions of his soldiers. At the trench border lay prepared bazookas.

SS Panzer Grenadiers in a Hungarian railway embankment, 1945

SS Panzer Grenadiers and police units secure a railway embankment in Hungary in the fierce defensive fighting against Russian forces.

German soldier in a shelter on the Oder, 1945

A young soldier prepares a 'panzerfaust' (bazooka) at a position on the Oder. Behind him a karabiner 98k with a rifle grenade device leans on the embankment.

German soldiers on the Oder Front, 1945

Infantrymen have mounted bazookas on their bikes and redeploy to a new position in the area of Oderbruch in April 1945. On their back they carry Sturmgewehr 44.

Destroyed T-34 during the fights in Silesia, 1945

German dispatch riders (probably on a Zuendapp KS 750) pass by a downed Soviet T-34/85.

Downed T-34 during the fights in Silesia, 1945

German soldiers marching past a destroyed Soviet T-34 / 85. The tank was destroyed during an attempt to break through in Upper Silesia. The soldiers are likely to be members of the railway protection of the Reichsbahn (black insignia, no insignia on their uniforms).

German artillery observer on the Western front, 1945

An artillery observer looks through a rangefinder at the enemy frontline and directs the fire of his own artillery.

German soldiers during combat in Wroclaw,1945

Soldiers in snow camouflage transport supplies on sleds.

General Field Marshall Schoerner (June 12, 1892-July 2, 1973)

Ferdinand Schoerner, Army group supreme commander on the Easter front after his promotion to General Field Marshall on April 5, 1945.

Construction of a roadblock in Frankfurt / Oder, 1945

The commander of the fortress Frankfurt a. D. Oder inspects the construction of a roadblock by policemen.

German National Militia in Silesia, 1945

National Militia men in a Silesian city.

SS grenadiers on the way to the front in Hungary, 1945

An SS company advances on a street to relieve another unit. On the right is an armored personnel carrier Sd.kfz. 251/1.

German infantry on patrol, 1945

German soldiers - infantry - on patrol in a village in Upper Silesia.

Figurehead of the "Pursuivante", 1945

The figurehead of the French frigate "Poursuivante", that took part in the Battle of Dunkirk in 1800.

German warship during the fighting in East Prussia, 1945

A German Zerstoerer 36 has anchored in the fairway of a harbor entrance and opened fire on Russian positions during the fighting in Samland.

German soldiers on the Eastern Front, 1945

Infantrymen in foxholes on the Eastern Front, next to them are bazookas for the defence against Russian tanks. Pk photo: Ellerbrock.

Hungarian smoke launcher unit in operation in Slovakia, 1945

A battery of Hungarian smoke launchers opened fire on Soviet troops in the Slovak combat zone.

Hungarian Nebelwerfer unit in action in Slovakia, 1945

A battery of Hungarian Nebelwerfers opened fire on Soviet troops in a Slovak battleroom.

Nebelwerfer (smoke mortar) battery in action on the Western Front, 1945

Launcher artillery of the Wehrmacht starts to bombard Canadian positions in West Germany.

Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting troops on the Oder, 1945

German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (2nd from right.) in a ditch on the Oder front east of Berlin on 3 April 1945.

German soldiers in position in a warehouse in Breslau, 1945

German soldiers arrange their position in a warehouse and await the attack of the Soviet troops.

Benito Mussolini with followers in Milan, 1945

Benito Mussolini, ousted dictator of Italy and reinstated as head of state of the Italian Social Republic, stands elevated in this painting and speaks to a companion. He is surrounded by his faithful, who continue to follow him. The photograph was taken in Milan in April 1945, before Mussolini's flight from the city on April 25. He is standing in Via Rovello, corner of Via Dante, in front of the building and main house of the "Legione Autonoma Mobile Ettore Muti". Today it houses the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. [automated translation]

Withdrawal of the Wehrmacht during the fighting in East Prussia, 1945

Cruiser 'Prinz Eugen' in the Harbor of Kopenhagen, 1945

The heavy cruiser 'Prinz Eugen' anchors in the harbour of Kopenhagen at the end of April 1945.

Fight for Berlin, 1945

A young and an older soldier with rocket-propelled grenades in a trench in Berlin. In the last days of the war, the so-called People's Army (Volkssturm) shall as a last resort stop the Russian divisions with bazookas. (Probably a film still)

Adolf Hitler Adolf hitler with Julius Schaub at the Reichskanzlei Building, 1945

Adolf Hitler (right) inspects the heavily damaged Reichskanzlei Building in Berlin together with his adjutant Julius Schaub. Adolf Hitler, politician, Austria, Jan.-April 1945: Letzter Frontbesuch

Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1945

Adolf Hitler together with his personal adjutant, SS Group Leader Julius Schaub visited the areas of the Reich Chancellery which were hard-hit by bombs and artillery shells in Berlin in April 1945.

Officers on a front inspection

The commandant of a "fortification" on the Oder front (right) speaks with a soldier who is training with his unit for the defense of the Oder front.

Ribbentrop with soldiers at the Oder front

Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (in coat) shakes the hand of a soldier, somewhere at the front ahead of Berlin.

German artillery observer in the Courland bridgehead, 1945

Two forward observers search the no man's land with their binoculars during the 5th Courland battle.

Shot down Soviet tanks during the fighting in East Prussia, 1945

Two German soldiers inspect downed Russian tanks. The vehicle on the left side and in the middle are tank destroyers of the type "SU-100", right in the background destroyed T-34/85 tanks can be seen. According to the picture description the tanks were destroyed by airplanes of the Luftwaffe.

Police move into a ditch in Frankfurt an der Oder, 1945

men of the administrative police are armed and deployed in the defense against Russian troops in a ditch in Frankfurt an der Oder.

Doctor writes a note for a wounded soldier in Hungary, 1945

On the Eastern front in Hungary, a medical officer writes a paper for a wounded soldier, which informs the battlefield hospital how they should treat his wounds.

Workers in a Silesian mine, 1945

Workers, also members of the Volkssturm (People's storm), during their work in a Silesian mine just before the war.

Exhortations to hold out in the enclosed Koenigsberg, 1945

A banner with the exhortation to hold out 'Our sun does not go down', after Koenigsberg was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army. In the foreground are inhabitants on horses.

German paratroopers on the Western front, 1945

German paratroopers going to the counter-attack against American troops. The man in the middle is armed with a bazooka.

German paratroopers on the Western front, 1945

Paratroopers at their MG 42 fight on a river in Germany.

German soldiers in a village on the Western Front, 1945

Soldiers armed with rocket-propelled grenades in a street on the Western front in the fight against the American troops.

German tank V Panther, 1945

Panther tanks of the Weapon-SS fights in Hungary.

Heinz Guderian honors soldiers, 1945

The Inspector General of Armored Troops, Colonel General Heinz Guderian honors soldiers with the Golden Close Combat Clasp.

General Walter Hartmann

Walter Hartmann, General of artillery. In the picture, he wears swords and diamonds to the Knight's Cross.

Captured Soviet tanks on the Eastern Front, 1945

Damaged Soviet assault gun with shattered chain during the last days of war in Silesia in the possession of the German Wehrmacht.

German position in a ruin, 1945

A soldier with a 'Panzerfaust' (tank fist)finds a position in the ruins of a house.

German Pak during combat in Silesia, 1945

Soldiers with a 7.5 cm anti-tank gun on the Eastern front.

Waffen-SS Soldiers in Combat in Hungary, 1945

Waffen-SS riflemen are watching planes from their trench. The soldier in the front is carrying an assault rifle 44.

German marching column on the Eastern Front, 1944

German soldiers are trying to pull a 3.7-cm-PaK 36 on rough terrain. In the background an IF8 infantry cart can be seen.

Winston Churchill disembarking from a boat on the eastern bank of the Rhine, 25th March 1945 (b/w photo)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) author, orator and British prime minister (1940-45, 1951-55), Winston Churchill am Ufer des Rheins, 1945,

Herbert Backe, Friedrich Giese and Josef Martin Bauer, 1944

The Reich Agrarian Leader Herbert Backe (middle) with the two prize winners of the Cultural Prize of the Reich Agrarian Leader, Friedrich Giese (right) and Josef Martin Bauer (left).

German position in Courland Bridgehead, 1945

German machine gun position during the 6th Courland battle. The weapon is a Mg-34.

Soldiers during a mission briefing, Hungary, 1945

A grenadier of the Waffen SS (right) and tank soldiers bend over a map before their mission. The photo was taken during the combat of the last German offensive on Lake Balaton in Hungary in 1945 and shows the soldiers of the 6th SS tank army in Hungary.

German tanks behind a destroyed Russian weapon in Hungary, 1945

An assault gun III drives behind a destroyed Russian weapon during a counter-attack.

Post office in a bunker on the Eastern Front, 1945

Because of the fighting on the approaching front, a post office in a city in Germany is relocated to a shelter. Photo: Woerner / Rosenthal

Soldier in the Second World War in Silesia during bazooka firing , 23 March 1945

At night, a German soldier stands in a snowy landscape in Silesia and shoots with a bazooka. Photo: Brosius

Hitler Youth visiting Sniper trench, 1945

A delegation of experienced Hitler Youth (right), which were welcome by Adolf Hitler in his Reich Chancellery garden the day before, with their Leader Artur Axmann (2. from left) at the top of the fight-school guards-regiment 'Grossdeutschland' in Berlin. An officer of the regiment, Captain Kertz (middle pic.), explains his guests the practical and camouflaged sniper trench.

German armored personnel carrier on the Oder front, 1945

An armored fighting vehicle Sdkfz.251/1 (right) on a flooded field in the Oderbruch region. In the background a self-propelled anti-tank gun 38t 'Hetzer'. The photo was taken during the combat for the Soviet bridgehead near Kostrzyn.

German position in front of Koenigsberg, 1945

A German anti-tank position in front of the city Koenigsberg, which was enclosed by Russian troops. Exhortation to hold out 'We hold Koenigsberg'.

Knight's Cross bearer Ernst Ebeling, 1945

Hautpmann Dr. med Ernst Ebeling, 3./Kampfgeschwader 53, with the Knight's Cross in 1940. The date is the date of bestowal.

Adolf Hitler and Artur Axmann award Iron Crosses to boys from the Hitler Youth

Adolf Hitler and Artur Axmann (right) stride in front of a group of Hitler Youth who excelled in the fighting around Berlin and are presently being awarded the Iron Cross personally by Hitler. The location is the garden of the Reich Chancellery.

Adolf Hitler with Memebers of Hitler Youth, 1945

On the occasion of his birthday on April 20, 1945, Adolf Hitler welcomes members of the Hitler Youth from the ranks of the Volkssturm.

USS Franklin, 1945

The American aircraft carrier USS Franklin south of Kyushu Island, hit hard by Japanese bombs. [automated translation]

German Mg-42 during a nocturnal battle, 1945

A German Mg 42 opened fire on Soviet positions with tracer ammunition.

German mountain troops in Norway, 1945

Two mountain troopers saw wood in front of their snow-covered bunker . Photo of the Propaganda Company (PK): war correspondent Reitzner.

German troops in the Courland pocket, 1945

Grenadier from a Rhine-Westphalian regiment at a position in Courland.

Laborers (Eastern female workers) in a repair station for motor vehicles in 1945

Foreign workers from the East work for the Wehrmacht in a repair station for motor vehicles. Photo: Plenik

Paratroopers on the Western Front, 1945

German paratrooper watch from their coverage as artillery cannons are used against Canadian positions. On the right is a prepared Kar98.

Nazi German soldiers listen to the radio, 1945

German soldiers squeeze together around a radio in a bunker.

German infantry on the Western Front in Germany, 1945

A group of pioneers goes to the front. The rear soldier carries a machine gun MG 42, the soldier before him tank mines.

German policemen dig trenches near Kostrzyn, 1945

Members of the German Fire Protection Police building splinterproof dugouts for their equipment carts.

Message center of the German police in Kuestrin, 1945

A German policeman directs traffic in Kostrzyn. To his left is a dugout serving as a message center, that was made splinterproof with an iron door. The policeman wears a helmet of Czechoslovak origin, possibly from old stocks remained after the crushing of the remainder of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

German soldiers in the Courland bridgehead, 1945

German reserves arrive southeast of Libau during the 5th Courland battle. The man in the middle carries a Mg 42, the man on the right has a holder with spare barrels for the machine gun.

A messenger of the Wehrmacht in a destroyed village in the west, 1945

A messenger of the Wehrmacht runs from cover to cover in a destroyed village.

German outposts on the Western Front, 1945

A sniper of the Wehrmacht has taken position under a tree stump. He is wearing a camouflage jacket of the type Sumpftarnmuster 44 and is armed with a K98.

German soldiers on the Eastern Front, 1945

German soldiers in winter clothing on the Eastern Front. The soldier in the center carries a machine gun 42, the soldier on the left the spares.

German tanks on the Oder front, 1945

Preparation of German troops on the Oder front. In the foreground to the left is a tank destroyer Marder III, in the middle a self-propelled anti-tank gun 38t 'Hetzer', on the right a V 'Panther' tank.