The Wehrmacht In Pictures: A Look At One of History's Legendary Fighting Force

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@Desert Fox @mike2000 is back @DesertFox97 @Bundeswehr

Lot of Rommel lovers over here ?
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Anyway,thank you very much for posting pictures about this awesome fighting force that was the Wehrmacht.
Keep 'em coming.

LOL He was indeed a great man bro. its no coincidence he was respected by both his own troops and opponents for being a generous officer.He defied even Hitler and his superiors orders to kill captured POWs(reason he was killed). He is still revered/ counted today as the most experienced commanders of desert warfare. Even our forces who had long experience/knowledge of the north African desert way before the war started still initially lost to him. Though at the end it was a to and fro fight between both sides.

To be honest the German military machine was indeed formidable, since i still cant understand how they managed to stand up to and take on the Royal navy/Army and air-force who back then controlled/ruled over half the world and had vast resources at its disposal. Plus they had incredibly gifted generals/colonels, if not for Hitler's stupidity/stubbornness things would have end up very differently. They were indeed a formidable enemy. RESPECT IS DUE HERE SIR. Everything being equal, On a one on one fight i doubt there was any country who could decisively defeat them back then. Not even the British empire, U.S or Russia.

So respect is still due, Even though they were responsible for weakening us and bringing down our vast empire/rule over the world.

 

[Psychic]

Flak88

Panther

French volunteers

mg34 in action

WaffenSS - Eastern front

Eastern front

Bf110 crew - North Africa

He-111 medium bomber​

 

[airmarshal]

Their uniforms, their weapons, their tactics were awesome. If Hitler was not an idiot and not consumed by his racial sense of superiority, he would not have done what he did to Jews, Slavs and other races.

Dont forget Germany was under heavy sanctions after treaty of Versailles. It secretly produced all weapons and successfully raised a very capable military, all under sanctions. German sense of industry and enterprise is what I really appreciate. And all of this cant be inculcated without discipline and focus.

 

[oprih]

Persian empire's immortals is still better, they even have their own film.

 

[Goenitz]

i did it before and doing again...

 

[airmarshal]

The dreaded MG 42 aka "Hitler's Buzzsaw"

This machine gun is still the same design.

 

[Psychic]

From my thread "Wehrmacht sniper school-1944"

Sniper rifles used by Wehrmacht

Mauser K98K with Model 41(ZF41) scope​

Mauser k98k with Zeiss ZF42 scope​

Mauser K98K with 4x Dialytan scope​

Walther 43 semi automatic with Voigtilander Modell 4(ZF4) sight.
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A look inside Wehrmacht sniper school in 1944

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[airmarshal]

Great thread @Desert Fox

Actually your name here is the nick name of General Rommell.

 

[Nilgiri]

From my thread "Wehrmacht sniper school-1944"

Sniper rifles used by Wehrmacht

Mauser K98K with Model 41(ZF41) scope​

Mauser k98k with Zeiss ZF42 scope​

Mauser K98K with 4x Dialytan scope​

Walther 43 semi automatic with Voigtilander Modell 4(ZF4) sight.
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A look inside Wehrmacht sniper school in 1944

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There are some of the best I've had the pleasure of shooting. Unnervingly straight shooters let me tell you that! Only my .22-250 really gives them a run for their money...and thats saying something.....because I've customised that one extensively.

 

[airmarshal]

Stahlhelm was the best helmet out there at the time, and influenced modern post war designs. I bought one and a German army issue dagger at a trade show a few years back. One of my prized possessions is a Gebirgsjager field winter jacket that I got (along with some other stuff) which I traded one of my lugers for. I'll upload some pics when I got some time. I hope to start a kriegsmarine collection next year as well.

This is the quality of German design. Check the helmets of other armies of those days and compare it to this one. The German design is more in tune with modern evolution of the current military helmet.

 

[Psychic]

This is the quality of German design. Check the helmets of other armies of those days and compare it to this one. The German design is more in tune with modern evolution of the current military helmet.

When PASGT helmet came in 80's, the American servicemen nicknamed it "Kraut helmet"...Because it looked similar to stahlhelm.

This was the first time in history a foreign power had succeeded in bombing Great Britain.

No, you are incorrect. It wasn't the first time GB was bombed.
Great Britain was bombed many times during first world war.

Zeppelin over St.Paul Cathederal London

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[Foxtrot-Bravo]

Combat gear of Wehrmacht

Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet)

Belt

Belt Buckle it says GOTT MIT UNS (God with us)

Combat Harness (Y-straps)

Bread Bag

Canteen

Kar 98k ammo pouches

Entrenching Tool and Carrier

@Desert Fox @Nilgiri @Arryn @Psychic @Foxtrot-Bravo @Khafee @Nihonjin1051 dividing this in two posts bcoz of limit of 8 images per post btw next post i will do on weapons

Great share dude, loved the gear.

 

[Goenitz]

@mb444
bro i don't underestimate SAS but u shouldn't overextimate them.. ever heard of operation OAK? not a single bullet fired to achieve it behind enemy lines..... google Otto Skorzeny

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Germans were fuking badass back then.

 

[LowPost]

Time for some random Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS pictures:

The youngest soldier of the French Legion of the Wehrmacht, 15 year old Léon Merdjian, near Moscow, 1941.

A German soldier in Stalingrad: "In the first three days 20,000 of our comrades died of cold, hunger or wounds."

A German twin propelled Messerschmitt Bf 110 bomber, nicknamed "Fliegender Haifisch", over the English Channel.

German Tiger I heavy tanks of the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" advance near Kirovograd, Ukraine, 1943.

German motorcyclists on the street of Prague during the early stages of World War II. Czechoslovakia, 1939.

A German Tiger I tank of the Afrika Korps operating in Tunisia, January 1943.

The crew of a German Sturmpanzer IV heavy assault gun play with a monkey on the streets of Warsaw, 1944.

German soldiers fire a 17 cm Kanone 18 heavy gun at Soviet positions on the Eastern Front. Russia, 1942.