Photographs from the German Federal Archive

3,204 items in this album on 161 pages.


German soldier on sentry on the Danish coast, 1940; note armored coastal batteries	German soldiers aboard a destroyed train, northern France, 1940	German soldiers standing in the ruins of a building, France, circa 1940	German troops marching in France, Jun 1940

Germans inspecting captured French S35 medium tanks, France, May or Jun 1940	Graves of German soldiers Willi Feilhauer, Robert Rieger, and others in France, Jun 1940	Ruined city block in Cherbourg, France, 1940	Temporary grave for a soldier amidst destroyed cars and damaged buildings, Calais, France, May 1940

Two men of a German military film unit at work on a bridge in Denmark, 1940	View of a German airfield in Denmark, 1940	Aerial view of burned out trucks at Calais, France, 1 Jun 1940	Destroyed houses and church in Calais, France, afternoon of 1 Jun 1940

Destruction in the waterfront area of Calais, France, at 1230 hours on 1 Jun 1940	Burning railway car at the rail station in Calais, France, 4 Jun 1940	View of ruins of Calais, France from a broken shop window, 5 Jun 1940	French refugees on a road near Gien, France, 19 Jun 1940

Carrier Graf Zeppelin under construction, Kiel, Germany, 21 Jun 1940	William Shirer and another journalist reporting on the French surrender, Compiègne, France, 21-22 Jun 1940	Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and others before the railroad car that hosted the French surrender, Compiègne, France, 22 Jun 1940	French Minister of Defense General Charles Huntzinger signing the Franco-German armistice document, Compiègne, France, 22 Jun 1940