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This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.
Heuaktion, i.e. "hay harvest", (or "hay operation") was a World War II Nazi German operation in which 40,000 to 50,000 Polish children aged 10 to 14 were kidnapped by German occupation forces and transported to Germany as slave labourers. [122] Kodak Kodak logo: 1892 Rochester, New York: Kodak's European subsidiaries continued to operate during ...
The Volkswagen Type 82 Kübelwagen (listen ⓘ), or simply Kübel, [2] contractions of the original German word Kübelsitzwagen (translated: 'bucket-seat car' — but when the contractions are translated literally a back-formation of 'bucket' or 'tub'-car results), [3] is a military light utility vehicle designed by Ferdinand Porsche and built by Volkswagen during World War II for use by the ...
Nazi memorabilia includes a variety of objects from the material culture of Nazi Germany, especially those featuring swastikas and other Nazi symbolism and imagery or connected to Nazi propaganda. Examples are military and paramilitary uniforms , insignia , coins and banknotes , medals , flags , daggers , guns , posters, contemporary photos ...
List of some captured vehicles used by the German forces on the Western front, Russian front and others areas. Certain models were modified in factories or army workshops for infantry support, armed reconnaissance, antitank or antiaircraft units or as self-propelled guns or tank destroyers and many other operative or utility uses.
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and the Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03826-8. Turner, Henry A. (1985). German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. Oxford University Press. Further reading. Abt, Parker (2017). "The Nazi Fiscal Cliff: Unsustainable Financial Practices before World War II".
Volkswagen Kübelwagen (military version of the Volkswagen. A later version sold in the US as the Thing.) Volkswagen Schwimmwagen (amphibious variant of the Volkswagen Kübelwagen) VsKfz 617 (experimental designation for the Panzer I Ausf A) VsKfz 622 (experimental designation for the Panzer II Ausf a)