Bürgersaal Eisernes Kreuz Rupert Mayer | Iron Cross 1914

Description	Deutsch: Bürgersaal, München Unterkirche, Ausstellung zum Leben des sel. Rupert Mayer: Eisernes Kreuz Rupert Mayers aus dem 1. Weltkrieg
Date	April 2008
Source	Own work
Author	Photo: Andreas Praefcke
Permission (Reusing this file)	Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY 3.0)

Herman Goring Dinner Plate

Herman Goring Dinner Plate

The Reichsmarschall of the German Luftwaffe had entire sets of dinner plates made in the above pattern. This slightly damaged specimen is in the effcts of General (LTC in 1945) Steve Chappuis, the last WW2 C.O. of the 502 PIR. There is slight damage to one edge of this ornate plate, which features wildlife scenes, relevant to Goring’s passion for hunting big game. Note the shield at center, depicting a hand holding a battleax-this is from the Goring family coat of arms and also appears on the silver goblet depicted below.

Source: http://www.101airborneww2.com/souvenirs4.html

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-17311, Berlin-Lichterfelde, Hitler bei Leibstandarte

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H15390, Berlin, Kaserne der LSSAH, Vergatterung

Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst – Zentralbild (Bild 183)Accession numberBild 183-H15390Source

This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.

 

 

Oberst / SS-Hauptsturmführer Harald Momm

Credit: Jsn-Hendrick

Axis History Forum

One fine pic of Marten von Barnekow, found in Carl Friedrich Nagel’s Kavallerieschule Hannover, FN-Verlag

What the Immediate Aftermath of Hiroshima Looked Like

Independent Workers Party of Los Angeles

These photographs were taken in Hiroshima immediately after the bomb exploded.  They show what nuclear war looks like from the perspective of the victims.  [Source: WordPress.com, Iconic Photos, “Hiroshima, August 6, 1945”]  It is not necessary to explain these images.  We append a copy of a statement made by the photographer Yoshito Matsushige describing his experiences that day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yoshito Matsushige was a 32 year old cameraman for the Chugoku Newspaper at that time. He was at his home in Midori-cho, 2.7kilometers from the hypocenter when the A-bomb was dropped. He walked around the city right after the bombing and took five photographs which have become important historical documents.

MATSUSHIGE:  “I had finished breakfast and was getting ready to go to the newspaper when it happened. There was a flash from the indoor wires…

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Unidentified

Unidentified

Adolf Hitler

Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-0723,_Marburg-Drau,_Adolf_Hitler
Slovenia in the 1940s

Ranks and Insignia of the Nazi Party

Screenshot showing World War II era Nazi Party Armbands. Created with Mircosoft Powerpoint & Windows Paint (Windows 7) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

FLMM – Nazi political and civil organizations insignia 1-9 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Drawings of Nazi Party rank insignia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party were paramilitary titles used by the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) between approximately 1928 and the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945. Such ranks were held within the political leadership corps of the Nazi Party, charged with the overseeing the regular Nazi Party members.

The first purpose of the Nazi party political ranks was to provide election district leadership positions during the years where the Nazis were attempting to come to power in Germany. After 1933, when the Third Reich had been established, Nazi Party ranks played a much more important role existing as a political chain of command operating side by side with the German government.

Contrary to modern day cinema and layman perceptions regarding the Nazi Party, which often portrays all Nazis as wearing brown shirts with swastika armbands, Nazi ranks and titles were only used by a small minority within the Party, this being the political leadership corps. Regular Nazi Party members, unconnected with the political leadership, often wore no uniforms at all except for a standard Nazi Party Badge issued to all members (a golden version of this badge also existed for early Nazi Party members).

The history of Nazi Party ranks and insignia can be divided into the ranks used during several different time periods as well as the positions held by senior Nazis who were, by default, the supreme leaders of the Party regardless of what title they choose to call themselves by.

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Early Nazi Party rank insignia (1930) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Early Nazi Party rank insignia (1930) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The rank insignia for Gauleiter and Reichsleiter, before and after the 1939 insignia change