World War II pictures from Ukraine

Below you will find a growing collection of World War II pictures from Ukraine. Most of them are taken by German soldiers.

Lviv, Dubno, Rivne, Kremenets and Vinnytsya

The pictures below are all taken from the same photo album and shows a German soldier's way to the east during Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941.
The pictures above are taken during the summer of 1941 in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
The pictures above are taken during the summer of 1941 in the western Ukrainian city of Dubno.
The pictures above are taken during the summer of 1941. The picture to the left is taken in the western Ukrainian city of Dubno. The two other pictures are probably taken in the vicinity of Dubno and shows captured Russian tanks.
The pictures above are taken during the summer of 1941. The picture to the left is taken in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne. The picture in the middle is taken on the way to the western Ukrainian city of Kremenets and to the right is a view of the city of Kremenets.
The pictures above are taken in western Ukraine during the summer of 1941.
The pictures above are taken during the summer of 1941 in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsya. The picture to the left shows destroyed tram wagons. The picture in the middle shows the city theatre and to the right is a picture of a Jewish man.
The pictures above are taken during the summer of 1941. The picture to the left is taken in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsya. The two other pictures are probably taken in the vicinity of Vinnytsya and shows Soviet prisoners of war.

Fastiv

The pictures above are taken in the central Ukrainian town of Fastiv, probably in late July or early August 1941. The picture to the left shows the wreckage of train wagons at the railway station in Fastiv. The two other pictures show German divisioncommanders in Fastiv.

Zhytomyr

The picture above is probably taken in 1942 in the central Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr. The city was taken by the German Army in mid-July 1941 and retaken by the Red Army in early 1944.

Uman

The pictures above are taken in the vicinity of the central Ukrainian city of Uman in early August 1941. The German Army Group South took about 100.000 prisoners after an encirclement loop. The pictures show some of these Soviet prisoners of war.

Kirovohrad

The picture above is taken on September 4, 1941 in the central Ukrainian city of Kirovohrad. The city was taken by the German Army on August 4, 1941 and retaken by the Red Army on January 8, 1944. This picture was taken by a professional German photographer and shows Soviet prisoners of war marching through the city.

Onufriyivka

The pictures above are taken on September 14, 1942 in the central Ukrainian village of Onufriyivka close to Kremenchuk in Kirovohrad oblast. A group of German soldiers are given the »das Eiserne Kreuz« – the Iron Cross. The soldiers to the left are named on the back of the picture and can be read here.

Kremenchuk

The picture above is taken at the railway station in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk that's situated by the river Dnipro. It´s probably taken in the summer of 1943 when the Soviet troops were advancing to the west. The city was taken by the Red Army on September 29, 1943. Note that the name of the town is written in Ukrainian and not in the Russian form Kremenchug.

Makiyivka

The picture above is taken close to the southeastern Ukrainian city of Makiyivka during the winter of 1941/42. The field howitzer is a German LE FH 18 which was the standard medium field howitzer used by the German army during the 1940s. It was a heavy but relieable weapon with a weight of 1955 kg and a range of 12,3 km.

Mariupol

The pictures above are taken in the southeastern Ukrainian harbour city of Mariupol, probably by the same person. The picture to the left is said to be taken in the summer of 1942.

Kuban, Taganrog, Zaporizhzhya and Nikopol

The pictures below are all taken by the same German soldier during the retreat of the German Army from the east in 1943.
The two pictures to the left was taken on February 6, 1943 and shows the village Aksariskaya by the river Don, Russia. The picture to the left shows where the Germans had crossed the river on floating bridges, 250 and 530 meters long. The picture to the right was taken on February 7, 1943 and shows German soldiers retreating from Rostov to Taganrog in southern Russia.
The picture to the left was taken on February 10, 1943 and shows the train leaving from Taganrog railway station to Zaporizhzhya in Ukraine. The picture in the middle was taken in February/March 1943 on the river Dnipro at Zaporizhzhya. The picture to the right was taken in March 1943 and shows the water dam at Zaporizhzhya.
The picture to the left was taken in April 1943 and shows a movable latrine in Nikopol. The picture in the middle was taken on May 9, 1943 and shows a resting German soldier at the river Dnipro. The picture to the right was taken in May 1943 and shows an orthodox church and cemetery close to Nikopol.
The picture to the left was taken in June 1943 and shows a resting German soldier by the river Dnipro at Nikopol. The picture in the middle was taken in June 1943 close to Nikopol. The picture to the right was taken in July 1943 and shows trains arriving with German soldiers on vacation to the railway station in Przemysl in eastern Poland.
The picture to the left was taken in July 1943 and shows German soldiers on vacation in Przemysl in eastern Poland. The two pictures to the right was taken in August 1943 and shows German soldiers working with help of Ukrainian women at a stone quarry at Postepnoye in Ukraine.
The picture above shows the last picture in this series and was taken in August 1944 in Oberkirch, Baden, Germany.

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