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The Beauty & The Horror.

@thebeautyandthehorror / thebeautyandthehorror.tumblr.com

III Reich medals collector & WW2 pictures lover.
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Carro Armato M14/41, captured by Polish rebels in Warsaw in 1944. According to one version, belonged to the police or Waffen-SS division was shot down in urban combat. The machine gun used by rebels.

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Soviet prisoners of war watching a show with Finnish officers performed by the fellow prisoners. 28th of September 1942 POW camp No. 6, Vyborg, Finland.

Suomalaista päällystöä seuraamassa vankien esitystä. Viipuri, Sotavankileiri 6 1942.09.28

Source: sa-kuva.fi
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1940: German advance toward Dunquerke. Field artillerie shelling enemy positions in the north of encircled Lille.

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German soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division on a tank during the battle of Kursk, July 1943.

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German Tiger tank captured intact by 22nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 2nd NZ Division at La Romola (Italy), 2 August 1944.

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An inmate at Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp weeps following the liberation by forces of the U.S. Army 104th Infantry Division, 3rd Armored Division. April 1945.

via reddit

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Maxim machine gun is taken to the shooting position during enemy offensive. 16th of June 1944 Liippua, Rautu (Sosnovo), Karelian Isthmus.

Konekiväri viedään asemiin. Liippua 1944.06.16

Source: sa-kuva.fi
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A Tiger tank and a knocked-out Soviet T-34 during the rescue operation of the German 6th Army in Stalingrad, 1942.

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Up-armoured Panzer IV (L/48) Ausf. G with welded front armour and Turm- und Seitenschürzen. Eastern front, spring/summer 1943.

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This B-17 returned from a Frankfurt raid. Flak blew rear gunner Roy Urich out and he became a POW. B-17s were legendary for surviving incidents like this.

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P-40K Rhapsody in Rivets of 78th FS / 15th FG; Midway, April 1943.

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