Six German soldiers from the 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring sit under a palm tree during the Battle of North Africa. The Second World War.
Location: North Africa
Shooting time: 1942
The 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring was an elite tactical unit of the Nazi German air force (Luftwaffe), personally subordinate to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. Created on the basis of a police battalion, over the period of its existence it was deployed into a tank corps (more precisely, into a parachute-tank corps, nominally related to the parachute troops of the Air Force, but in fact the former tank unit of the ground forces of Nazi Germany). Along with a number of selected formations of the SS and Wehrmacht troops, the division (later – the Corps) “Hermann Goering” was one of the most combat-ready formations in the armed forces of Nazi Germany. In terms of the number of recipients of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, the Division Hermann Göring is among the top five ground combat formations of the armed forces of Nazi Germany.