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Germany : Students of the School of Arts and Crafts in Stuttgart working in a sewing school run by Nazi Germany's women's association - August 1940 -...

Germany : Students of the School of Arts and Crafts in Stuttgart working in a sewing school run by Nazi Germany's women's association - August 1940 - Photographer: Regine Relang - Published by: 'Die Dame' Nr. 16 Vintage property of ullstein bild

Germany, Third Reich - concentration camps 1939-45 An urn with the remains of murdered mentally ill people in the extermination facility Grafeneck....

Germany, Third Reich - concentration camps 1939-45 An urn with the remains of murdered mentally ill people in the extermination facility Grafeneck. In Grafeneck about 10.000 mentally ill people were poisened by carbon monoxide, as part of the euthana

Angehörige der ersten nach Berlinzurückgekehrten Infanteriedivision währendder offiziellen Begrüssung auf dem PariserPlatz

Einzug Wehrmacht 1940 - Off. Begrüßung d. Infanterie auf d. Pariser Platz in Berlin

Kundgebung der Gaufrauenschaft Berlinim Sportpalast, auf derReichsfrauenführerin GertrudScholtz-Klink zum verstärkten Einsatz derFrauen in allen...

NS-Frauenschaft - Kundgebung der Gaufrauenschaft Berlin

Publikum während der Aufführung eines Theaterstücks bei einem Kameradschaftsabend der Reservepolizeiin Berlin- veröffentlicht Februar 1940

KdF-Kameradschaftsabend - Publikum bei einem Kameradschaftsabend der Reservepolizei Berlin

Young women of the 'Faith and Beauty Society' - and employees of a department store - are doing gymnastics

Germany, Third Reich: 'League of German Girls'

Campaign in the west / battle of France 1940: : German tank attack.On the right a burning french tank .May 1940 No further information.- undated-...

2.WW, Campaign in the west / battle of France 1940: (10.05.40-22.06.40) : German tank attack.On the right a burning french tank .May 1940 No further information.- undated- Published by: 'Deutschland' 3/1941Vintage property of ullstein bild

Santa Claus at a christmas party ofso-called 'field grey editors', members of the Wehrmacht who were organizing the Gleichschaltung of the press in...

Santa Claus at a christmas party ofso-called 'field grey editors', members of the Wehrmacht who were organizing the Gleichschaltung of the press in National socialist Germany - Photographer: Herbert Hoffmann- Published by: 'B.Z.' 23.12.1940Vintage pr

German Empire: Nursing school of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt in Cologne , A nursing student is giving a patient something to eat - Photographer: Reinke /...

German Empire: Nursing school of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt in Cologne (Steinfeldergasse), A nursing student is giving a patient something to eat - Photographer: Reinke / Dephot- Published by: 'Erika' 22/1940Vintage property of ullstein bild

Radio shop in Berlin announcing the capture of Paris by German troups, people outside the shop show the Nazi salute

Berlin during World War II

Radio shop in Berlin announcing the capture of Paris by German troups, people outside the shop show the Nazi salute

Berlin during World War II

Berlin in World War II: cyclists and pedestrians in front of a radio shop in a Berlin street listen to a radio broadcast on the course of...

Berlin in World War II

Pictures of daily life Throwing fir trees from a truck to the sidewalk in Berlin - 1940 - Published by: 'Bild' Vintage property of ullstein bild

Pictures of daily life Throwing fir trees (for Christmas) from a truck to the sidewalk in Berlin - 1940 - Published by: 'Bild' 03.12.1940 Vintage property of ullstein bild

Young woman wearing a checked suit leaving a tram in BerlinSuit designed by Annemarie Heise, hat by Kiauppublished in Dame 22/1940Photo: Haenchen

Berlin streetcar

Germany, women watching television- Photographer: Paul Mai- 1940Vintage property of ullstein bild

Germany, women watching television- Photographer: Paul Mai- 1940Vintage property of ullstein bild

World War II, Germany, arms industry in the Third Reich Women in an ammunition factory - 1940 - without location

World War II, Germany, arms industry in the Third Reich Women in an ammunition factory - 1940 - without location

Frank, Emanuela - Opera singer, Germany*24.12.1870-+as the gypsy woman Acuzena in the opera 'the Troubadour' by Guiseppe Verdi - Photographer:...

Frank, Emanuela - Opera singer, Germany*24.12.1870-20.11.1940+as the gypsy woman Acuzena in the opera 'the Troubadour' by Guiseppe Verdi - Photographer: Gebrueder Luetzel- 1898Vintage property of ullstein bild

Joseph Goebbels*29.10.1897-+Politician, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi GermanyJoseph Goebbels before his New Year's radio address

Germany, Third Reich: Joseph Goebbels

German-born Italian tennis player, Annalisa Bossi (formerly Annelies Ullstein and later Annalisa Bellani, 1915 - 2015, 1940.

Germany at war. The blitzkrieg of Adolf Hitler in France and Denmark over cartoons of the international press, Signal Magazine 1940, Daily Express.

The blitzkrieg of Adolf Hitler in France and Denmark.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. War in Asia. Japanese soldiers are resting after attack.

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. German advanced outpost in France watching towards Dover. The Battle of Britain Luftschlacht um England, or...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Blitzkrieg. Battle of France. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka Sturzkampfflugzeug, or dive bomber was a two man,...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. France. Italy attacks France from the Alps, Signal Magazine 1940, Camouflage of electric line in the italian...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. After the battle of France. French colonial troops colored prisoners of the German armed forces following the...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. After the battle of France. French colonial troops colored prisoners of the German armed forces following the...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, Italy, 1940. Umberto II, or Humbert II Prince of Piedmont with Benito Mussolini duce of the italians at a public...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Battle of Noway 1940, German infantry in action, May 15 1940.

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. German heavy artillery ready to fight. A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece,...

Germany at war.

Cheering Alsatians welcoming German troops France - World War II, Washington. National archives, .

Cheering Alsatians welcoming German troops (1940)

German soldiers at Bordeaux France - World War 2.

German soldiers at Bordeaux

Propaganda poster advertising for voluntary work in Germany Holland - World War II, Brussels. Musée de la guerre, .

Propaganda poster advertising for voluntary work in Germany (1940)

Alsatian-born German theologian, physician, and medical missionary Albert Schweitzer conducts a Sunday worship service with two interpreters at the...

Albert Schweitzer Conducts Sunday Service At Lambarene

An artists impression of the first British air aggressive action of the war, the raid on Kiel: Wellington Bombers in action, 1940. On 5th July 1940...

The first British air aggressive action of the war, the raid on Kiel, 1940.

Group of German soldiers sit and stand in the door of a rail road car.

German soldiers crowd n the door of a box car, ca. 1940.

One group of German soldiers hold another group hostage under gunpoint during war games, ca. 1940.

German soldiers drill on capturing other soldiers, ca. 1940.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine touring the City of London after heavy German bombing 31st December 1940.

Churchills Inspect Damage

Sinti and Roma Gestapo dossiers, at the permanent exhibition on Cologne under the Nazis at the EL-DE building, regional HQ of the Gestapo from 1935...

EL-DE building, regional HQ of the Gestapo in Cologne from 1935 to 1945

German dictator Adolf Hitler with his mistress Eva Braun , whom he married on April 29 the day before they committed suicide, early to mid 1940s....

Hitler And Braun Pose For A Picture

North Africa: In addition to aiding in the defense of England and in manning former French ships now with the British Navy, Frechmen who refuse to...

French Unit Commander In Conference

View of women rebuilding a wall in Dresden, Germany. Undated photograph.

Women Rebuilding A Wall In Dresden, 1940s

Hitler and Goebbels Inspect Construction

Hitler and Goebbels Inspect Construction

Berlin, Germany: Passed by the German censor, this photo shows a detachment of Nazi troops aboard one of the big junker transport planes that ferried...

Nazi Troops On Plane

Germany: Heinkel "HE-111" twin-motored bombers in serial production in a German aircraft factory. Passed by German censor.

Heinkel HE-111 Production

Berlin, Germany: The Axis power sign pact. Italy, Germany, and Japan signed an economic, political and militrary pact of ten years duration, pledging...

Axis Powers Sign Pacts

Workers, mostly women, build combat planes for Germany at a factory during World War II.

German Aircraft Assembly

American foreign correspondent William L. Shirer with other reporters as they cover the German Blitzkrieg or 'Lightning War' in Compiegne, France....

Shirer Covers The Blitzkrieg In France

Europe, Germany, 1940s: Soviet fighter squadron over Berlin, 28 April 1945.

Soviet fighter squadron over Berlin, 28 April 1945.

Europe, Germany, 1940s: Soviet soldiers listening music, Berlin, 1945.

Soviet soldiers listening music, Berlin, 1945.

View of post-WWII city ruins, Germany, mid 1940s.

WWII German Ruins

Admiring crowd saluting German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, 1938. A print from Wie die Oftmark ihre Befreiung erlebte , Berlin, 1940.

Admiring crowd saluting German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, 1938.

Zeppelin LZ 126 under construction, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 1924 . LZ126 was built for the US military as part of the war reparations Germany was...

Zeppelin LZ 126 under construction, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 1924 (1933).

Romanian troops, the siege of Sebastopol, Russia, 1941-1942. Romania supplied more troops to the Axis invasion of Russia than any other of Germany's...

Romanian troops, the siege of Sebastopol, Russia, 1941-1942.

German infantrymen with light field artillery, Russia, 1943. A print from Signal, April 1943. Signal was a magazine published by the German Third...

German infantrymen with light field artillery, Russia, 1943.

Exhausted German soldiers, France, 1940. The German conquest of the Low Countries and France was accomplished in just 6 weeks in the early summer of...

Exhausted German soldiers, France, 1940.

'Road to the Front', superior German organization, 1941. A convoy of lorries heading towards the Russian Front. A print from Signal, November 1941....

'Road to the Front', superior German organization, 1941.

German tank fording a river, Russia, 1941. The German invasion of Russia, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, launched in 1941, was the largest land...

German tank fording a river, Russia, 1941.

French street sellers offering souvenirs to a truckload of German soldiers, Place de l'Opera, Paris, 27 July 1940.

French street sellers offering souvenirs to a truckload of German soldiers, Paris, 27 July 1940.

German soldiers inspecting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, December 1940.

German soldiers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, December 1940.

German soldiers in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1940. Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940.

German soldiers in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1940.

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