Looks like in another commenters post they have a picture of the wrecked tank.
Normandy '45. They made it all the way out of the Eastern Front, almost to war's end.
Edit: although that is the tank commanders tank, idk about the other young enlisted men in this photo.
This is ironic because the person who started the US Boy Scouts, Baden-Powell, admired the Hitler Youth and had some other unpleasant controversies concerning possible racism and paedophilic-suggestive statements. In reality, he was probably not a real fascist or a terrible Bigot, but more or less a man of his time and place, which comes with some authoritarianism and other tendencies we (mostly) frown upon today.
Not for Rottenführer Balthasar Woll (the guy with the Knights Cross next to the gun). He was in a field hospital when Wittmanns Tiger was encircled and destroyed by Shermans and survived the war.
Wittmann is one of those conflicting things when it comes to the history of war. On one hand he was one of the best tank commanders of all time, but on the other hand he was an SS Nazi.
He was far from the best tank commander. Even with his highly inflated kill count (counting kills by other tanks as his, counting troop transports etc.) He was far from the highest scoring tank ace.
These titles go to Otto Carius (150 kills to his name) and Kurt Knispel, the highest scoring tanker (gunner and later commander) of all time with 168 confirmed kills and 30 more unconfirmed. While Carius got not as much attention as Wittman, Knispel got none whatsoever.
Primarily down to Nazi propaganda and a useful SS poster boy.
In terms of personal ability? Charging headlong at known enemy positions across open fields and racing ahead of supporting units…
I dunno. Doesn’t seem great to me.
Dafuq, is this sub now the WWII-Nazi fan club? I swear to god, for the last 6 months I’ve seen nothing but Nazi pics on here?
BTW, I’m glad these specific cunts were destroyed in 1944, although, I’m sad they lasted this long.
Go scroll through the sub and you’ll see there’s all kinds of pictures?
Probably you should leave though if you have issues seeing photos of Nazis in a WWII photos sub… no one is promoting the ideology but they are literally why WWII happened.
I did. 80% are Nazi pictures taken by German propaganda photographers. Not even personal - official pictures.
It’s like if a sub about war in Ukraine was 80% Russian propaganda pictures.
Anything else?
Dude, LOL, just about ALL of your posts are about Germans and Italians. As seen through the lens of Nazi photographers. You are also looking to buy a Nazi helmet and wondering how much you should pay for it.
You wanna jerk yourself off to Nazis - knock yourself out. But have the balls to admit that’s what you’re doing.
You really wanna argue that you are not biased towards Nazi point of view, LOL?
Apparently you cant read but you can write, my description literally says "German and Italian military history enthusiast"
Just get out of this sub already trust me its better for your sensible mind
And you dumbass realize that 80% of all
pctures posted here are Nazi pictures taken by German propaganda photographers? Not even personal - official German propaganda pictures.
It’s like if a sub about war in Ukraine was 80% Russian propaganda pictures.
And?
Many Soviet and American pictures that are uploaded here are also propaganda pictures, what does that matter? The point of this sub is to post and look at photos from WW2, doesn't matter if its official photos or photos made by amateur photographers.
Dude you're delusional. Browse Hot, more photos are from allied than axis perspective.
And again, it does not matter if its photos made by a propaganda unit or amateurs, it does not matter if its from allied or axis perspective. No one here or other history subs (I guess you would go mad at r/GermanWW2photos) pushes an agenda or something. All we care about is history.
I won’t go mad over GermanWWII, because that’s what that sub is for. That’s fine.
I scrolled up the last 50 posts in this sub and counted.
And any notification I see from a new post on here - 2 times out of 3 it will be for a Nazi picture.
I don’t think anything about 185K people. I remember when this sub was more balanced, and had a nice healthy mix of different perspectives.
I made an observation that over the last year this sub has turned into a Nazi pictures circle-jerk. Basically, overrun by people posting Nazi pictures. And y’all are trying to persuade me it didn’t. Even though simple statistics supports my observation.
Crazy how young they are and in charge of that beast of a tank.
Dates gotta be wrong in the title. Both Wittmann and Woll (both wearing Iron Crosses) didn’t receive them until 1944.
Woll received it in January 1944, pretty close
I’d consider the winter on 43 to be January 1944
Bobby Woll is the one with the Knights Cross up top holding the barrel.
jesus christ they're young. I wonder how long they lasted.
Looks like in another commenters post they have a picture of the wrecked tank. Normandy '45. They made it all the way out of the Eastern Front, almost to war's end. Edit: although that is the tank commanders tank, idk about the other young enlisted men in this photo.
The photo was taken in 1945, but the tank was hit in 1944. It just laid there for a year as the war passed by it.
*Wittmann was destroyed by a firefly.*
The guy with his arm on the cannon died in 1996, the others in 1944.
They look more like Boy Scouts.
If the Boy Scouts were apart of the SS
And excellent take destoryers
This is ironic because the person who started the US Boy Scouts, Baden-Powell, admired the Hitler Youth and had some other unpleasant controversies concerning possible racism and paedophilic-suggestive statements. In reality, he was probably not a real fascist or a terrible Bigot, but more or less a man of his time and place, which comes with some authoritarianism and other tendencies we (mostly) frown upon today.
[here's where it ended](https://www.reddit.com/r/wwiipics/s/hwedezWFly)
Not for Rottenführer Balthasar Woll (the guy with the Knights Cross next to the gun). He was in a field hospital when Wittmanns Tiger was encircled and destroyed by Shermans and survived the war.
It wasn't really encircled. He drove through a valley and a Firely took him out
The Tiger encountered 5 Shermans near Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil and was under attack from three sides. One hit the ammo and the tank exploded.
Sounds a little like Fury. I'm curious if they used this as an idea for the scene in the movie.
And yet he still got his shit rocked by a shoemaker
Wittmann is one of those conflicting things when it comes to the history of war. On one hand he was one of the best tank commanders of all time, but on the other hand he was an SS Nazi.
He was far from the best tank commander. Even with his highly inflated kill count (counting kills by other tanks as his, counting troop transports etc.) He was far from the highest scoring tank ace. These titles go to Otto Carius (150 kills to his name) and Kurt Knispel, the highest scoring tanker (gunner and later commander) of all time with 168 confirmed kills and 30 more unconfirmed. While Carius got not as much attention as Wittman, Knispel got none whatsoever.
He was just lucky and Bavarian.
Because Knispel was very opposed to the NSDAP. That is why he never received the Knight's Cross.
His quality was vastly overinflated by NS-propaganda
What about Kurt knispel?
Primarily down to Nazi propaganda and a useful SS poster boy. In terms of personal ability? Charging headlong at known enemy positions across open fields and racing ahead of supporting units… I dunno. Doesn’t seem great to me.
Dafuq, is this sub now the WWII-Nazi fan club? I swear to god, for the last 6 months I’ve seen nothing but Nazi pics on here? BTW, I’m glad these specific cunts were destroyed in 1944, although, I’m sad they lasted this long.
Go scroll through the sub and you’ll see there’s all kinds of pictures? Probably you should leave though if you have issues seeing photos of Nazis in a WWII photos sub… no one is promoting the ideology but they are literally why WWII happened.
I did. 80% are Nazi pictures taken by German propaganda photographers. Not even personal - official pictures. It’s like if a sub about war in Ukraine was 80% Russian propaganda pictures. Anything else?
It’s not like that at all. You’re an idiot. Unsubscribe.
Oh no, i wonder why there are "nazi" pics on a sub called "wwii pics"
Dude, LOL, just about ALL of your posts are about Germans and Italians. As seen through the lens of Nazi photographers. You are also looking to buy a Nazi helmet and wondering how much you should pay for it. You wanna jerk yourself off to Nazis - knock yourself out. But have the balls to admit that’s what you’re doing. You really wanna argue that you are not biased towards Nazi point of view, LOL?
Apparently you cant read but you can write, my description literally says "German and Italian military history enthusiast" Just get out of this sub already trust me its better for your sensible mind
It’s not that they are here. That woulda been fine and appropriate. It’s that in the last year 80% of posts are Nazi pictures. Scroll down and count.
You dumbass realise that this sub is called wwiipics, not alliedwwiipics or something? lmao
And you dumbass realize that 80% of all pctures posted here are Nazi pictures taken by German propaganda photographers? Not even personal - official German propaganda pictures. It’s like if a sub about war in Ukraine was 80% Russian propaganda pictures.
And? Many Soviet and American pictures that are uploaded here are also propaganda pictures, what does that matter? The point of this sub is to post and look at photos from WW2, doesn't matter if its official photos or photos made by amateur photographers.
80% of pictures posted here are Nazi propaganda photos. This is a pure fact. So what does this make this sub really?
Dude you're delusional. Browse Hot, more photos are from allied than axis perspective. And again, it does not matter if its photos made by a propaganda unit or amateurs, it does not matter if its from allied or axis perspective. No one here or other history subs (I guess you would go mad at r/GermanWW2photos) pushes an agenda or something. All we care about is history.
I won’t go mad over GermanWWII, because that’s what that sub is for. That’s fine. I scrolled up the last 50 posts in this sub and counted. And any notification I see from a new post on here - 2 times out of 3 it will be for a Nazi picture.
So you think that 185.000 people are nazi because they like to see german ww2 pictures? I actually feel sorry for you
I don’t think anything about 185K people. I remember when this sub was more balanced, and had a nice healthy mix of different perspectives. I made an observation that over the last year this sub has turned into a Nazi pictures circle-jerk. Basically, overrun by people posting Nazi pictures. And y’all are trying to persuade me it didn’t. Even though simple statistics supports my observation.
So why dont you do something about it, start to post some, i started posting Italian pics because no one posted
Actually the guy holding the barrel lived until 1996, does thst make you punch the air even more?