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Photo of German soldier Wilhelm Traub during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) in the USSR during the Second World War (1939-45). Taub has a Russian submachine gun while he takes cover. Taken in late Autumn 1942.

A photograph showing tanks of the German 6th Panzer Division in 1940. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing German troops on horseback passing a destroyed Soviet T-26 tank during Operation Barbarossa, the attack by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) on the USSR from June to December 1941. Horses were used by both sides for want of mechanised...

A memorial to the 1811 German Coast uprising, located at the Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, USA.

A 1944 photograph of a German Karl self-propelled mortar gun, a type used in several major battles during the Second World War (1939-45). The gun had a massive calibre of 600 mm (23 inches) and could fire 2.4-ton concrete-piercing shells.

Depiction of the 1811 German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt in parts of the Orleans Territory in the United States, by an unknown artist, 1811.

A German Pzkw Mk III tank during the Battle of Gazala (May-June 1942) in the North Africa Campaign during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing Sudeten Germans welcoming German troops during the first stage of Adolf Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia in October 1938. The Sudetenland was occupied as it contained some three million German speakers. (Imperial...

A photograph showing German troops and Polish civilians following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Photograph taken in the Tuchola Forest, 4 September 1939. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing German troops crossing the border with Austria during the Anschluss of March 1938. (Imperial War Museums)