Die hier gezeigten Abzeichen sind zu edukativen Zwecken dargestellt, aus diesem Grund sind sie nicht abgedeckt. Weiterhin möchte ich auf den folgenden Discliamer aufmerksam machen:
Disclaimer: Die hier gezeigten Abbildungen aus der Zeit des "Dritten Reiches", u.a. mit dem damals obligatorischen "Hakenkreuz", dienen der Berichterstattung über Vorgänge des Zeitgeschehens, der staatsbürgerlichen Aufklärung sowie Forschung und Lehre (§ 86a, 86 StGB)
The following is the news headlines as reported in the German "Rheinische Landeszeitung" newspaper August 1941........
1st August 1941. private letters offering help between Stalin and Roosevelt ( USA neutral?) England lose 13 million tons sunk.
Reichsleiter Dr.Dietrich, ten years Reich Press Chief of the NSDAP
One of many, shot down by our flak
2nd August 1941. Victorious along the whole meastern front.
On the main road between Minsk and Moscow
3rd August 1941. Dr.Todt gives orders for the building of U-boat pens on the Atlantic Front.
Two pictures of the Soviet-Finnish front
4th August 1941. Smolensk battle coming to an end. 10,000 POWs taken today.
Soviet method of withdrawal from a Rumanian village, all destroyed
Boots off and roll the trousers up, the advance goes on
5th August 1941. More victories in the east, we are east of Smolensk!
Direction Berlin..... Soviet POWs
Direction Moscow.... the advance continues
6th August 1941. Motorcycle battalion destroy 20 Soviet tanks!
Smolensk destroyed by Soviet artillery after the German capture
7th August 1941. So far in this war the Soviet Union has lost 13,145 tanks, 10,388 artillery guns, 9,082 aircraft captured or destroyed and 895,000 Soviets are POWs.
Refugees returning to their village after the Soviets are driven out
8th August 1941. 101 bunkers captured in one week, huge fires in Moscow. Churchill lies about the situation in Russia.
Generaloberst Höppner commander of a Panzer Group
Generalfeldmarschall von Brauchitsch (left), Generaloberst von Kleist (middle) and Generalfeldmarschall von reichenau (right)
Generalfeldmarschall Kluge (sitting) and generaloberst Guderian (right)
9th August 1941. Luftwaffe destroy 13 trains in Russia. British and (neutral) American officers visit the front in Russia.
Generaloberst von Falkenhorst with Finlands Generalmajor Siilasvuo
Three Generalfeldmarschallen: von Rundtstedt, Ritter von Leeb and von Bock
The Führer and Generaloberst Halder
10th August 1941. In two battles in the Ukraine, 141,000 POWs taken.
They could not resist German firepower any longer
Russian rail system destroyed by our stukas
11th August 1941. Over 10,000 Soviet aircraft destroyed in this war so far.
Generalfeldmarschall von Rundstedt, his army group destroyed 25 Soviet divisions in the battle of Uman. Von Rundstedt is talking to Feldmarschall Keitel
The Rumanian General Antonescu had personally been awarded a Knights Cross by the Führer
12th August 1941. Foreign Press visit Smolensk to see for themselves, Churchill cant lie anymore.
13th August 1941. 41 RAF machines shot down over west Germany and the Channel, 11 bombers and 30 fighters for no losses to ourselves!
Street battles in the east
Russian refugees flee from the Soviets authorities
14th August 1941. Announced that on 12th August in a 24 hour period that 244 aircraft were shot down, 60 British and 184 Soviets.
The Führer visits Army Group South
15th August 1941. Odessa and Nikolajew surrounded.
The city of Odessa
The harbour of Nikolajew
16th August 1941. Victories along the whole eastern front.
Russian broad guage railways are converted to German guage
Admiral Darlan, one of the leaders in the Vichy Government
17th August 1941. 9,500 tons sunk by the Luftwaffe, Malta bombed again.
A company headquarters on the eastern front
18th August 1941. The RAF have lost 298 aircraft in 9 days! Krivoi Rog is in our hands.
19th August 1941. British convoy broken up. Odessa under heavy bombing.
Gauleiter Florian (Düsseldorf) during a ceremony for a fallen comrade
General Guderian´s headquarters
20th August 1941. Major German victories in the Ukraine!
The remains of the town of Gdow after the Soviets retreated
21st August 1941. Soviet warcrimes discovered in Dubno. 26 Soviet aircrat shot down on the eastern front with no lose to ourselves!
Waffen-SS enter a Soviet village (the newspaper goes on to say that they were searching for snipers having taken some enemy fire)
22nd August 1941. The eastern front is in full motion. SA-Obergruppenführer Heinz Knickmann is reported killed in action.
The President of Finland, Risto Ryti, visits a German Flak unit
23rd August 1941. 6,000 POWs taken near Narva.
SA-Obergruppenführer Heinz Knickmann, who fell in Russia leading a Wehrmacht Battalion
24th August 1941. Our Luftwaffe is victorious on all fronts!
Transporting wounded in a Recon aircraft
25th August 1941. U-boats sink 25 British merchant ships.
Two high ranking Russians taken prisoner at Uman, left Kyrilloff commander of the 13th Soviet Army Corps and right Ponedielin the commander of the 12th Soviet army
26th August 1941. Stalin and Churchill attack neutral Iran!
heavy artillery advancing eastwards
27th August 1941. Dniepropetrowsk and Luga fall to German troops.
Troops crossing the river near the Hermann Fortress (Estonia)
28th August 1941. Berislaw falls after house to house fighting. The Soviet 22nd Army is destroyed.
This Russian soldier is helping the germans, he thought he was going to be shot
The field post is handed out
29th August 1941. 34,000 POWs taken at Welikije-Luki.
Funeral of Heinz Knickmann in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf
SA Stabchef Viktor Lutze, Gauleiter Florian and General der Infanterie Glokke
30th August 1941. The Duce visits the Führer´s Headquarters. 5 RAF machines shot down over Germany.
Hauptmann Jopplen, holder of the Knights Cross, has failed to return from a mission last friday
The Russians destroy the bridges, but our engineers put up new ones
31st August 1941. Two years of war and victories. The Duce visits the eastern front. Viipuri has fallen to the Finns.
Three photos from the Führers headquarters taken during Mussolini`s last visit
