Captured and wounded British paratroopers being marched away by the Hohenstaufen troops on the eastern side of Oosterbeek, Netherlands on 20 September The parachutists are on their way to Arnhem, most of them ending up at the St Elizabeth’s Hospital.
“Soldiers from the SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen and StuG III’s from Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 280 advance on the Utrechtseweg street in Arnhem, Netherlands in a mop up operation against British positions on 19 September ”
A German soldier loading up his gear onto a bicycle. As the war dragged on, horses & bicycles were used more & more by the Axis powers as fuel ran scarce.
The 1933 Greater German Youth Camp in Grunewald--still includes many non-Nazi holdouts. Below: Hitler Youths on bicycles with publicity signs saying "Are you a German boy?" and "Come into our Jungvolk!
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