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Delivery After Raid (1940). Delivery After Raid, also popularly known as The London Milkman, is a black and white photograph taken by Fred Morley on 9 October 1940. [1] The image shows a milkman making his delivery along a street with buildings destroyed by German bombers during the Blitz in Holborn, Central London.
Georg Gärtner (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɡɛʁtnɐ]; December 18, 1920 – January 30, 2013) was a German World War II soldier who was captured by British troops and later held as a prisoner of war by the United States. He escaped from a prisoner of war camp, took on a new identity as Dennis F. Whiles, and was never recaptured. He ...
In all, approximately 5,318,000 soldiers from Germany and other nationalities fighting for the German armed forces—including the Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and foreign collaborationist units—are estimated to have been killed in action, died of wounds, died in custody or gone missing in World War II. Included in this number are 215,000 Soviet ...
The film takes a look at who these men were and how they were able to commit such crimes, what the few survivors reported and how they were able to escape the mass murder. Director Manfred Oldenburg traces the path of one of the murder battalions using written records, original documents, film footage and photos as well as scenic reconstructions.
Frederick Wiedemann (16 August 1891 in Augsburg – 17 January 1970 in Postmünster) was a German soldier, Nazi Party official, and (publicly) Consul General for the German Nazi party. He was, for a time, the personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler , having previously been Hitler's commanding officer in World War I .
Männer gegen Panzer (Men Against Tanks) is a 1943 German film, produced by Lehrfilm, which was used as a training film by the Wehrmacht. Its purpose was to show the German soldiers the different types of infantry anti-tank warfare. The duration of the film is 28 minutes. [1] [2] The film consists of three parts.
Carlo Schmid (1896–1979), politician who had vast influence on the content of the German Basic Law after World War II; Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989), foreign minister, minister of the Interior (CDU) Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the early years of the FRG; Baron Heinrich vom Stein (1757 ...
In 1936 he had effectively seized control of stereographer Otto Schönstein's publishing house, Raumbild-Verlag, which effectively put him in charge of all mass-market stereoscopic (3D) photography in Germany until the end of the Second World War. [33] Hitler with his staff at his "Wolf's Lair" field headquarters in May or June 1940. Heinrich ...