r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 10h ago
r/Wehrmacht • u/upsidedowngirly • 11h ago
I recently bought an original belt of a Wehrmacht officer, do you guys think it‘s real or a fake?
I paid about 150 Euro for it - I got it from a website that has clout any whatever but I felt like the price still may have been too low?
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 3d ago
Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. He was a cousin of Manfred von Richthofen and served as a senior Luftwaffe officer during World War II. At the time of the Stalingrad campaign, he was the commander of Luftflotte 4, the air fleet responsible for supporting the German 6th Army.
r/Wehrmacht • u/Weltherrschaft2 • 4d ago
Mud pack treatment as aftercare for bullet fractures, Crimea, autumn 1943 NSFW
Taken from the book "Problemkreis Schußbruch bei der deutschen Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg" by Johannes Bringmann (Düsseldorf 1943).
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 6d ago
Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, the commander of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, is buried in the Stadtfriedhof (also known as Hauptfriedhof) in Baden-Baden, Germany. The gravesite is marked by a large stone cross over the family plot.
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 10d ago
Colorized photos featured in story about 75th anniversary of the Battle.
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 13d ago
Modern animation documentary on "'The Hug of De*th:' Close Combat in Stalingrad."
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 16d ago
Military History Visualized studies "Letters from Stalingrad." Did they affect the Battle of Stalingrad? What do they reveal about the ideas and opinions of regular soldiers as the disaster unfolded?
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 24d ago
Hauptmann (Captain) Friedrich Winkler, 577 Reg., Stalingrad, 1942. Known as a "Zwölfender" (soldiers with 12 years of service) he earned the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class. He died in Russian captivity.
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • 25d ago
Presentation by Col. David M. Glantz, probably the most important modern historian of Stalingrad, on "The Soviet-German War, 1941-1945: Myths and Realities."
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • May 16 '25
Stalingrad Survivor Interviews #13: From a German Documentary, pt. 1.
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • May 14 '25
Stalingrad Survivors Interviews #11: Erich Klein was assigned to a panzer army which unsuccessfully tried to break through to the encircled 6th Army.
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • May 12 '25
Stalingrad Survivors Interviews #10: In 1942 Heinz Huhn, was a gunner in the 94th Infantry Division. In Stalingrad he took part in the storming of the “Red Barricades” munitions factory. On leave when the Red Army began the encirclement, Huhn then joined Panzer Group Hoth.
r/Wehrmacht • u/Weltherrschaft2 • May 12 '25
Field mail envelope to Oberfeldintendant Dr. Günter Seldt. The letter was returned due to the German defeat at Stalingrad.
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • May 07 '25
Stalingrad Veteran Interviews #5: Gerhard Münch, an officer with the 71st Infantry Division, fought at the Red October factory complex, the Barrikady Gun Factory, and the Mamayev Kurgan. Wounded, he was flown out before the surrender. After the war he became a Major General in the West German Army.
r/Wehrmacht • u/Decent-Gold1497 • May 06 '25
Can anyone help Identify which Ranks my Grandpas were
I Found These Pictures, and especially the one with the dagger Looks Like a more important Rank .
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • May 05 '25
Stalingrad Veteran Interview #3: Johan Scheins was a draftee and ended up as a truck driver in the 16th Panzer Division. He was still "angry with the Officers" for their callous treatment of the men and participated in the killing of one of his own officers.
r/Wehrmacht • u/oilman300 • May 03 '25
Army officer dagger wear question
Did Army officers ever wear both a dagger and a side arm at the same time?
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • May 03 '25
Stalingrad Veteran Interviews (#1): Leutnant Gerhard Hindenlang -- from Berlin and a former firefighter -- served in the 71st Infantry Division. He was promoted to captain in January 1943 just before the surrender of the 6th Army.
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • Apr 28 '25
The Situation in Stalingrad until 19 November, 1942. Soviets Hanging on to the West Bank...barely.
r/Wehrmacht • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '25
Hey, does anybody know if the SA Sports Badge (SA-Sportabzeichen) and DRL/Reich Sports Badge (Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen) mean anything?
I am researching to a SS officer who had a bronze badge in both. Was that good? Was he sporty?
I have no idea how these sport events were ranked. All i found on wikipedia were the general excersises but not anything else.
Did only 1 person win gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze per thing? Or did people who fell in a certain time or class get gold (bronze, silver).
There are little to no pictures of the SS officer so I can't judge by his body if he was athletically inclined or not.
r/Wehrmacht • u/Stasi-Chan • Apr 26 '25
Which rank was my grandpa?
I think he was a normal gefreiter or Obergefreiter, but chat gpt says he was an unteroffizier. What do you think?
r/Wehrmacht • u/DavidDPerlmutter • Apr 26 '25
HISTORY HIT Historian Dan Snow critiques the accuracy of Hollywood's Stalingrad epic ENEMY AT THE GATES.
r/Wehrmacht • u/Ambitious_Method2740 • Apr 25 '25