1. This demonstration was organized in connection with the celebration of Thanksgiving Day (Reichserntedankfest), which was held in the city of Buckeburg (Buckeberg) in 1934.
The number of participants estimated 700 000 people.
According to the stories of Germans who did not support the Nazis, even they were shocked by the scale of the event.
Up to this point no one had seen anything like it.
Witnesses and participants of the event spoke about the feeling of national unity, emotional lift, incredible excitement and mood changes for the better.
When the Germans after the demonstration went to their tents, they are still seen huge lightning in the sky.
2. Nazi storm troopers in Berlin sing near the entrance to the branch trade house Woolworth Co. March 1, 1933. This day was organized to promote the campaign to boycott the Jewish presence in Germany.
As soon as the Nazis came to power, they began to call upon all citizens to boycott German Jewish organizations and enterprises. It began a long campaign of propaganda.
April 1 Minister Joseph Goebbels (Joseph Goebbels) delivered a speech in which he explained the necessity of boycotting in retaliation for "conspiracy against German Jews throughout the world" in the foreign media.
Is shown in the photo shop was owned by "Woolworth", whose leadership later left without work of all employees of Jewish origin.
In this connection, the company received a special distinguishing mark "Adefa Zeichen", which meant belonging to a "purely Aryan business."
3. SS soldiers resting near the Olympic stadium in Berlin in August 1936. These served in the SS guard battalion for the personal protection of Hitler and his escort during public events.
Some time later, the first battalion of the elite division called "Leibstandarte SS" Adolf Hitler "" (Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"). The unit was very large and accompanied Hitler everywhere, wherever he went.
In wartime, the division took part in the hostilities, distinguished himself as one of the best units in the entire war.
4. Parade Nazis in 1937 in the "temple of light". This building was a powerful searchlight 130 facing each other at a distance of 12 meters and looking straight up.
This was done in order to create a light column. The effect was incredible, with columns inside and outside. The author of this creation was the architect Albert Speer (Albert Speer), it was his favorite masterpiece.
Experts still believe that this work - the best that has created Speer, Hitler ordered that issue area in Nuremberg for parades.
5. Picture taken in 1938 in Berlin. On it the soldiers bodyguards Fuhrer held drill. This unit was in the barracks Lichterfelde (Lichterfelde).
Soldiers armed with carbines Mauser Kar98k, and logos on the collar in the form of lightning - is the hallmark of an SS unit.
6. "Hall of the Bavarian generals" in Munich, 1982. Annual oath passing in the Waffen SS. The text of the oath was as follows: "I give you my pledge to you, Adolf Hitler, always be a soldier brave and true. I give thee, and the commanders of the oath to be determined for me to be faithful to his death. So help me God."
7. SS slogan read: "Our honor - it is our faithfulness."
8. Welcomes the Fuhrer after the announcement of the successful annexation of Austria. The action takes place in 1938 in the Reichstag. The most important position of the ideology of the Nazis was to unite all Germans who were born or live outside the borders of Germany, to create a "Vsegermanskogo Reich."
Since coming to power of Hitler's Führer he announced that he had any means will achieve the reunification of Germany and Austria.
9. Another photo from a similar event.
10. The frozen body of a Soviet soldier, who in 1939 paraded Finns to intimidate going to attack Soviet troops. Finns have often used this technique of psychological influence.
11. Soviet infantrymen, frozen in a "foxhole" in Finland in 1940. Troops forced were transferred to the Finnish front of the remote regions. Many of the soldiers were not prepared for an extremely harsh winter, once in Finland from the southern regions.
Moreover, the Finnish saboteurs regularly monitored the destruction of rear services. Soviet troops experienced great difficulties due to lack of food, winter clothing and proper training.
Therefore, the soldiers covered their trenches branches, and sprinkle on top of the snow. Such a shelter and was called "the fox den."
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12. Photography of Joseph Stalin from the police archive, made during his arrest by the secret police in 1911. It was his second arrest.
For the first time secret police became interested in him in 1908 because of his revolutionary activities. Then Stalin had been in prison for seven months, and after that he was sent for two years to the city Solvychegodsk, into exile.
However, the leader of the whole period was not conducted, since some time later escaped, disguised as a woman and went to St. Petersburg.
13. This is an unofficial photo made Vlasik, Stalin's personal bodyguard. In 1960, when the first were made public this and some other works Vlasik, they became a sensation. Then one Soviet journalist brought them out of the Soviet Union and sold to foreign media.
14. Picture taken in 1940. In it Stalin (right) and his counterpart Felix Dadaev. For a long time in the Soviet Union there were unconfirmed rumors that the leader has a double, which replaces it in certain circumstances.
After several decades of Felix finally decided to drop the veil of secrecy. Dadaev, former dancer and juggler, he was invited to the Kremlin, where he was offered a job as understudy Stalin.
More than 50 years, Felix was silent because he was afraid of death for breach of contract. But when he was 88 years old, in 2008, of course with the permission of the authorities, Dadaev published a book in which he described in detail how he had ever "play" the leader in various demonstrations, military parades and filming.
15. Even the closest companions and comrades Stalin could not tell them apart.
16. Felix Dadaev in dress uniform of lieutenant general.
17. Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's eldest son, was captured by the Germans in 1941. More. According to some historians Jacob himself surrendered. On the life of the son of the leader up to now run many conflicting rumors and legends.
18. After receiving a package from Germany to Stalin learns about the capture of his son. Then Basil, the youngest son of the leader, I heard from my father: "What a fool, not even managed to shoot!". It was also said that Stalin rebuked Jacob that he surrendered to the enemy like a coward.
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19. James wrote to his father: "Dear Father, I am a prisoner. I feel good. Very soon end up in a camp in Germany POW officers. Treated me well. Cheers. Thank you for everything. Yasha."
Some time later, the Germans received a proposal on the exchange of James Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus (Friedrich von Paulus), which Stalingrad was captured.
It was said that Stalin refused to such a proposal, saying that it would not change the whole field marshal on the ordinary soldier.
20. Not so long ago byi declassified some documents according to which Jacob zastreleli camp guards after he refused to submit to the established order.
While walking Jacob received an order from the guard to return to the barracks, but he refused, and the security guard killed him with a shot to the head. When Stalin learned of this, he noticeably softened in relation to her son, finding a decent death.
21. A German soldier shares a meal with a Russian woman with a child, in 1941. His gesture in vain, because his role - it is doomed to death by starvation of millions of mothers. Taken by photographer 29 divisions of the Wehrmacht Gyundlah Georg (George Gundlach).
This image, along with others, came to landscape collection "Volkhov battle. Documentary horror of 1941-1942."
22. Caught Russian spy laughs, looking into the eyes of his death. The photo was taken in November 1942 in Eastern Karelia. We have before us the last seconds of life. He knows that now dies and laughs.
23. 1942. Neighborhoods Ivanograda. German punitive units executed Jews of Kiev. In this photo German soldier shoots at a woman with a child.
Rifles other punitive visible in the left part of the photo. This picture was sent to the Eastern Front in the mail in Germany, but intercepted in Poland, the Warsaw resistance, which collects evidence of Nazi war crimes in the world.
Today, this image is stored in Warsaw, in the Historical Archives.
24. Rock of Gibraltar, in 1942. The rays of spotlights that helped gunners firing at the Nazi bombers.
25. 1942, the suburbs of Stalingrad. Marching 6th Army. The soldiers do not even realize that are sent to a real hell.Most likely, the next spring, they will not see.
One of the soldiers talking in their own sunglasses. It is an expensive thing issued exclusively for motorcyclists and soldiers of the Afrika Korps.
26. Going to hell.
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27. Stalingrad in 1942. The preparations for the assault on the warehouse. The German soldiers were forced to fight to beat every building, every street. It was then they discovered that the tactical advantage that was at their disposal in open spaces, fell into oblivion due to the closeness of the city.
The street battles tanks were unable to express themselves. Oddly enough, but the snipers in such conditions played a much more important role than with tanks and artillery.
Severe weather conditions, lack of adequate level of supplies and uniforms, as well as the stubborn resistance of our soldiers have led to the complete defeat of the army of Nazis at Stalingrad.
28. 1942, Stalingrad. German soldiers with the Silver infantry assault sign. This distinction was awarded to infantry soldiers who took part, at least, three assault operations.
For men such award was no less honorable than the Iron Cross, which was established specifically for the Eastern Front.
29. German soldiers from the lights a flame thrower.
30. 1943. Warsaw. The bodies of Jews and Ukrainian police. Picture taken in the Warsaw ghetto during the uprising.The original German caption to the picture reads: "The policemen took part in the operation."
31. 1943. The Battle of Stalingrad. Soviet soldier with a gun PCA - 41 escorting a German prisoner. Hitler's troops at Stalingrad was surrounded, were completely overwhelmed.
This battle is considered one of the most brutal and bloodiest in the history of all wars. It claimed the lives of more than two million people.
32. Summer 1944. Belarusian strategic offensive operation "Bagration". As a result of this operation, the German Army Group "Center" was completely destroyed.
The front line of 1,100 kilometers in two months of fighting has moved 600 kilometers to the west. German troops in this battle lost five times more people than the Soviet.
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33. July 17, 1944. The streets of Moscow. The march of tens of thousands of German prisoners. "Operation Bagration" is considered to be the most successful for the whole period of the war.
The offensive on the Eastern Front began immediately after the landing of allied troops in Normandy. On this operation, especially in the West, it is little known. Few historians are familiar with its details.
34. 1944. Camp nona-les-Pins (Nonant le Pin), the German prisoners of war. In France, during the Falaise Pocket allied forces over thirty thousand German soldiers were captured.
Guard camp regularly traveled along the barbed wire and fired shots into the air to suppress attempts to portray another escape. But there were no attempts to escape, because even if they managed to escape from the guards, the penalty still has not turned out to escape.
Therefore, to preserve life in the camp was much more than a real possibility.
35. 1944. France. 18-year-old member of the resistance movement of Simon Seguin (Simone Segouin). Its military alias - Nicole Mina.
Picture taken during a battle with German troops. The appearance of the girls at the center, of course, is surprising, but it is the picture became a symbol of women's participation in the French Resistance.
36. Simon on color photography, rare at the time.
37. Simon with his favorite weapon - a German machine.
38. March 9, 1945. The young fighter, "Hitler Jugend" won the "Iron Cross" for his services in the defense of the city Laubana in Silesia, it congratulates Goebbels.
Today Laubana - a Polish town Luban.
39. 1945. Balcony Reichs-Chancellery. Soldiers allied armies ridiculed Hitler. Soldiers of the American, Soviet and British armies are celebrating together the victory.
The photo was taken July 6, 1945, two months after the surrender. Prior to the bombing of Hiroshima was a month.
40. Hitler, speaking on the same balcony.
41. April 17, 1945. The concentration camp Bergen-Belsen (Bergen-Belsen), release. Guards - SS British soldiers forced prisoners to dig the burial and immerse them in the car.
42. 1942. German soldiers watching a film about concentration camps. In the photo - the reaction of prisoners of war on documentary material from the death camps. This photo is in the Museum of the Holocaust in the United States.
43. The last series of cinema, the same scene.
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