Rare Unseen Pictures from Second World War: Part 3

This is how the Nazi propaganda machine saw America

VIDEO: NAZI PROPAGANDA

A nurse from the American Army in France after the Normandy landings

WORKS OF ANTI-NAZI CARTOONIST: JOHN HEARTFIELD

John Heartfield ( June 19, 1891 - April 26, 1968) is the anglicised name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld, who ruthlessly satirised Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

In 1918 Heartfield joined the Berlin Dada Club and the German Communist Party. He was dismissed from the military film service on account of his support for a strike following the assassination of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. With George Grosz he was then to found Die Pleite , a satirical magazine.

He met Bertolt Brecht in 1924. Brecht was to have a profound effect on his artistic and intellectual development. Heartfield became progressively more engaged in photomontage as a form of political and artistic representation in the following years.

In 1933 following the Nazi Party's rise to power, Heartfield fled to Czechoslovakia. In 1938, fearing an invasion of Czechoslovakia, Heartfield fled to England

His photo montages satirising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis often used Nazi symbols such as the swastika to subtly undermine the Nazis' propaganda messages.

He returned to Berlin in 1954.

Source


More of Heartfield's work




This was during the Battle for Berlin. The Russian soldier drags the lifeless German.



In the dying days of Nazi Germany in 1945 as the Russians were coming close to Berlin. Old men and boys were enlisted in the Volkssturm to defend the capital. The old man (probably a veteran of WW1) is taught how to handle the panzerfaust (anti-tank gun)

VIDEO: GERMAN NEWSREEL

When it was all over. When last gun fell silent in Berlin. 1945



Same time. Near the German Reichstag.



One wonders if the picture is genuine. If it is, then Hitler's Extermination squads in Russia were inhuman.


The effect of the war on children. A German boy plays with guns.

German plane moments before it crashed

Hitler's Extermination squad in action in Russia

Tit for tat. This is what the Russians did to a German corporal



This is what the men from Wehrmacht thought of the Western Front. The Russians shared the opinion.

The Nazis disapproved of Germans from having a relationship with people of 'lower' races. This German woman is being punished publicly.





These Fraulein are getting military training



Currency in Nazi Germany










A classroom in Nazi Germany.

Russians helping themselves with parts of German tanks. This was after the war ended



The three major figures from the Nazi regime that remained alive (besides Goering); Albert Speer, Jodl and Doenitz

A screaming Stuka dive bomber goes for the kill

VIDEO: STUKA DIVE BOMBER

Boys from the Volkssturm. They were to stop the Russians from coming into Berlin



Some old men from the Volkssturm. The Hitler regime turned to them in the dying moments of the war.

COLOR VIDEO: VOLKSSTURN




RELATED....

Rare Unseen Pictures From WW2: Part 1

Rare Unseen Pictures From WW2: Part 2

Rarely Seen Pictures From Second World War: Part 2

American paratroopers. Why the hair-cut, anybody?

Chinese soldier. The man looks puny, unlike the strong, tall soldiers of the Chinese army today

Japanese soldiers in action in China

French fighter pilots. Must be from the Free France air force

A German ace pilot. The man could walk into any Hollywood picture

German paratroopers. Smart uniform

Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda poster. No wonder the German soldiers fought so ferociously till the end.

SS men getting acquainted with the machine-gun

Oops!

Did it fall off a train?

Japanese pilots getting a send-off before a mission. Kamikaze?

Japanese soldiers in action

Japanese soldiers with a range-finder

Japanese soldiers in the streets of Shanghai

Japanese tanks trundle through China

German general Dietl. Having a good time with the ladies? The man died in an air-crash in 1943

 WHO WAS EDUARD DIETL?

A convinced Nazi and one of Hitler's favorite generals, he was the first German soldier to receive, on 19 June 1940, the oak leaves cluster to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Dietl commanded German forces in Norway and northern Finland and in Eastern Europe and rose to the rank of Generaloberst (equivalent to a US four-star general), commanding the 20th Mountain Army on the northern Eastern Front, where the results of the German Arctic campaign were disappointing. On June 23, 1944, Ju 52 aircraft carrying Dietl crashed in the vicinity of the small village of Rettenegg, Styria; there were no survivors.

Wikipedia

1944. Ruins of German column in Odessa. Must have been strafed by the Russian air force

Had a bad landing

Russian troops move in Odessa. 1944

Russian soldiers in Poland. 1944

And last of all: Stalingrad

RELATED....

Rare Unseen Pictures from WW2: Part 1
Rare Unseen Pictures from WW2: Part 3

Rarely Seen Pictures From Second World War: Part 1

This American fighter plane fires on Japanese positions in Okinawa

Germans soldiers on the way to Stalingrad grin at the skeleton put up up by the retreating Russians

A British soldiers looks at the remains of a German soldier. He holds his foes' Lugar in his right hand.

A factory in Nazi Germany manufacturing tanks

German fighter pilots have a chat before going on a mission

This is not an oil rig. This is a British sea fortress during WW2

Soldiers of 'Free India' Army (founded by Subhash Chandra Bose) which sided with the Germans in France early spring. Remember that India was ruled by Britain then

German soldiers in Stalingrad. A German joke popular amongst the soldiers fighting there; "Our troops have captured a two-room apartment with kitchen, toilet and bathroom, and managed to hold two-thirds of the apartment, despite heavy enemy counterattack."

This Latvian boy got a Wehrmacht decoration for fighting bravely for the Germans. Must have had a hard time if he survived the war.

 This British soldier in Arnhem won't be fighting anymore

Erwin Rommel in his days of glory, gives an interview. But he fell foul of Hitler later and came to a sad end.

American machine-gunners in action in Germany

RELATED...

Rare Unseen Pictures From WW2: Part 2
Rare Unseen Pictures From WW2: Part 3