Photos Taken in Germany | World War II Database

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Ruins of a German town, 22 Nov 1944	Members of the US 22nd Infantry Regiment holding the line during heavy fighting near Großhau, Germany during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, 1 Dec 1944. Note the M1917 machine gun and M1 Garand rifles.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery making his first visit onto German soil in the village of Hillensberg, 3 Dec 1944. Note the censor’s cropping marks on the photograph.	Dead horses in a German town, 15 Dec 1944; 6 German soldiers (5 of whom were killed) were hitching them to an artillery piece on the previous day when a US shell exploded near them

US 7th Army troops checking a house for snipers, western Germany, 16 Dec 1944	Major General William Simpson and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery touring the city of Aachen, Germany, 31 Dec 1944. Ten weeks earlier, Aachen became the first city inside Germany to be occupied by the Allies.

A German town in ruins, 1945	A US soldier walking through a destroyed German town, 1944-1945

A wooden bridge being destroyed by US Army engineers, Germany, 1944-1945	Aerial view of Howaldtswerke shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, 1940s

Aerial view of Lübeck, Germany, 1945, seen from an American aircraft; Lübecker Flenderwerke shipyard located just right of center in this photo	Allied crews inspect a captured Focke-Wulf 200 Condor shortly after war's end, Brunswick-Waggum Airfield, Germany. Note the radar antennae on the nose.

An American looking at a fallen German soldier near a destroyed German gun, Germany, 1945	Ar 96 aircraft with Hungarian markings at rest, Germany, 1945

B-17 bombers amidst heavy flak fire over Merseburg, Germany, circa 1944-1945	Civilians in a ruined German town, 1944-1945

Heilbronn, Germany in ruins, 1945	Me 262 aircraft viewed from atop, Germany, 1944-1945; Nazi German government propaganda photograph

Swedish Red Cross Buses in Germany, possibly near the Friedrichsruh Manor which was the field headquarters of the Swedish Red Cross for this operation, northern Germany, 1945; most men in this photo were Gestapo members who were ordered to follow the busses	Two US Army medics amidst wrecks and rubble in a German town, 1944-1945