WW2 pictures from Russian PoW’s and official trips.
Pictures from a soldier of the Wehrmacht about Russian prisoners of war (PoW’s), which served for the 214th Infantry Division in Norway as so-called ‘Hiwis‘ and from official trips to Germany and in Norway.
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The Russian helper (‘hiwi’) Dimitri, 23 years old, together with the grandfather of the author, at Bakke (Norway) in May 1943.
‘Our Russian helpers’, Drammen in Norway in January 1944.
The Russian and the German soldiers pictured together.
On this photo the Russian PoW and now ‘hiwi’ Dimitri Balkovev was pictured.
On the ferry ‘Deutschland’ running from Sassnitz in Mecklenburg (Germany) to Tralleborg in Sweden. A good part of the transportations from Norway to Germany or Finland where made with persmissions through neutral Sweden.
This picture was taken from train during the traveling through Denmark.
Railway bridge across ‘Kaiser Wilhelm’ canal between the Baltic and Northern Sea.
Railway bridge across ‘Kaiser Wilhelm’ canal from closer view.
Dressed in uniforms of the 20th Mountain Army on their way through ice floes to northern Norway.
On the way to the north through the ice floes.
On the way to the north through the ice floes.
This original army map shows the locations and routes of his unit as part of the 214th Infantry Divison during the operations in northern Norway in 1942 and 1943.
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