Panzerkampfwagen VI

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unhistorical:

(Making it reblog-able so that it’s easier for people to add on.)

All of the blogs on the Tumblr Spotlight are highly recommended. Out of them, I follow Eff Yeah Asian History, Medium Aevum (the Middle Ages), Historicity (was already taken),Historical Nonfiction (for more general history and light reading), and a couple of others.

Also, if you look under the History tag, there’s a list of Editors and Contributors who are also worth looking at. 

European history: History of Europe, The Stuart Kings, Histoire (French history), Medieval,Victorian Era Fangirl Guide, Irish History, there’s a lot of them. I’ll add some more later.

General (they tend to be Euro-centric though): It’s Johnsen (pictures!), collective-history,Lost Splendor, F-YEAH History!, I would argue, History: the Ultimate Fandom.

World Wars: The World at War, Once Upon A Time in War, Greatest Generation, WE HAVE TO GO BACK. There are way too many World War blogs to list.

Third Reich-centric: Fuck Yeah! Albert Speer, Onkel Speer (apparently a lot of people like Albert Speer), We will be victorious, they will not control us, wafflekrieg, Panzerkampfwagen VI, Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer, Angriff!, and more…

Miscellaneous: Art of Swords (I love this blog so, so much), Women at War, Cool Chicks from History, FUCK YEAH HISTORY CRUSHES, Fuck Yeah, History Foes! (funnier than its crush-counterpart), Latin American History, Fuck Yeah! and naturally, Fuck Yeah, History Major Heraldic Beast.

Ancient History/Archaeology: All Mesopotamia, OMG that Artifact!, Babylon Chronicle,Archaeological News, Historiated (not ancient, but a lot of pretty things). 

Art: Centuries Past, Ugly Renaissance Babies (hehe…), deadpaint, wtfarthistory.

America: Founding Fatherfest, Revwarheart (a lot of other history/culture, too), Encyclopedia Virginia (I need suggestions on this section). 

You can also check out archives, libraries, and museums like U.S. National Archives, LBJ Time Machine, New York Public Library, and Today’s Document.

I feel like I’ve left out a lot of great blogs. If anyone has a blog to recommend, don’t hesitate!

Recommended by others:

Sovietico, PPSh-41 (recommended by Fuck Yeah, History Foes!; both Russia-centric.)

Just going to add on The Devils Guard and Reparations for Third Reich centric.

historicalawesomeness:

Colonel Hermann Graf (24 October 1912 – 4 November 1988) was aGermanLuftwaffeWorld War IIfighter ace. A flying ace or fighter ace is amilitary aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemyaircraft during aerial combat. He served on both theEastern andWestern Fronts. He became the first pilot in aviation history to claim 200 aerial victories—that is, 200 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft. He claimed 212 aerial victories in over 830 combat missions, 202 of which were on the Eastern Front.

Graf, a pre-war football playerand glider pilot, joined the Luftwaffe in 1935 and initially selected for transport aviation was posted to Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51—51st fighter wing) in May 1939. At the outbreak of World War II he was stationed at the French border flying uneventful patrols. Serving as a flight instructor he was stationed in Romania as part of a German military mission training Romanian pilots. Graf flew a few ground support missions in the closing days of the German invasion of Crete before being relocated east. He claimed his first aerial victory on 4 August 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) after 45 victories on 24 January 1942. By 16 September 1942 his number of victories had increased to 172 for which he was honored with the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten). On 26 September 1942 he became the first fighter pilot in aviation history to claim 200 enemy aircraft shot down.

Graf was then posted to a fighter pilot training school in France before being tasked with leadership of a high flying de Havilland Mosquitointercept unit called Jagdgeschwader 50. In November 1943 Graf was appointed Geschwaderkommodore (wing commander) of Jagdgeschwader 11 (JG 11—11th fighter wing) and claimed his last aerial victory on 29 March 1944. He was severely injured during this encounter and after a period of convalescence became Geschwaderkommodore ofJagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52—52nd fighter wing). He and the remainder ofJG 52 surrendered toUnited States Army forces on 8 May 1945 and were turned over to theRed Army. Graf was held in Soviet captivity until 1949. After the war he worked as an electronic sales manager and died ofParkinson’s disease in his home town of Engen on 4 November 1988.

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talesofwar:

Latvian women giving water to a German column. At the beginning of the war, Wehrmacht soldier were seen as liberators by many citizen of Eastern European countries after some very rough years of Stalinism in the 30s.

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operationbarbarossa:

A gunner of the Canadian Film and Photo Unit with a couple Red Army soldiers; Torgau, Germany - 27 April 1945

fallschirmjager:

a-tychiphobia:

Tiger I heavy tanks of the German 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler on a country road in Northern France - spring 1944

Photographer: Scheck

Fallschirmjäger:

The alert was given and SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 marched towards the front in Normandy. This photo was taken on the morning of 7.6.1944 on the N316 highway between Bézu-la-Forêt and Morgny. Here we can see SS-Oberscharführer Jürgen Brandt at the turret of Tiger ‘223.’ Though no planes are visible in the sky, the hull machine-gun have been placed on the anti-aircraft ring on the commanders cupola and the muzzle breaks have been covered to prevent dust from getting in.

houseofrandom:

A line-up of Me 262 jets at Lager Lechfeld in the summer of 1944

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