Welcome !
This is an online archive for the display of military history-related photographs and documents (mainly WW2 photographs and photo albums). It is hoped that making these available will prove useful to historians, researchers, militaria collectors and and anyone interested in the day to day reality of this period of history. By showing the albums and collections in their entirety it is hoped to give a small insight to the day to day lives of soldiers and civilians from that time.
They are unwritten history books of that war, uncompromising in their secret truths.
They are photographic time-capsules of every day people- their triumphs and personal disasters, and every photo enhances one's knowledge and wisdom on the subject of WWII if the time is taken to imagine the moment which surrounds each shot.
There were few victors in that war.
Bill Bruegman
Contact
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If you can add information about locations, units, ranks, individual personnel or background information to any photographs contained on this site then please get in touch. All information is welcome and this site is updated regularly.
If you have Irish Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence or Irish Civil War (or World War I or II) items for sale including photographs and photograph Albums, negatives or documents then please get in touch. If you would like your collection featured but are not interested in selling then please get in touch also.
Coming Soon:
interwar MG-13 Training album,
23rd Panzer Division - Russia album,
Kriegsmarine album (Marineschule Murwik)
13th Motorised Infantry Division - Russia album.
Feldgendarmerie photo collection,
SS Polizei single pictures
Soldbuch to Reserve Polizei Battalion 101
& more.
