Category: 1939

The Nazi army soldiers armed with Mauser rifles from the German Wehrmacht are fighting in the Polish city of Sochaczew (September campaign, Kampania wrześniowa, 1939 defensive war, Wojna obronna 1939…

People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov signs a friendship and border treaty between the USSR and Nazi Germany. Stand, left to right: Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, chief of the General…

Color photo of World War II: Führer of the Nazi Party of Germany and Reich Chancellor of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler with guests at the table in Teehaus am…

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is the future Prime Minister of Great Britain. Location: United KingdomPhoto Time: 1939

Battle of the Atlantic: Water splashes from the fall of 283-mm shells from the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, observed from the board of the New Zealand Achilles light…

Soviet prisoner of war, a wounded Red Army soldier, is awaiting delivery to the hospital. Captured during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 (Winter War). Sources of Soviet prisoner of war…

Soviet prisoners of war, the soldiers from the 44th Rifle Division of the Red Army captured during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 (Winter War). Location: FinlandPhoto Time: December 1939Photo by…

Soviet soldiers frozen in the trenches from the 44th Rifle Division of the Red Army during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 (Winter War). Sources of Soviet soldiers photo information: www.gettyimages.com…

German Admiral Graf Spee pocket battleship of the Nazi Kriegsmarine on the Montovideo raid after the battle against the British cruisers on December 13, 1939.On the right side of the…

Handshakes Polish and Hungarian officers at the train in occupied Czechoslovakia. Location: CzechoslovakiaDate of the photo: 1939