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Strength, Organization, Orders of Battle, Weapons, Equipment of WW2 Armies.

A description of the strength, organization, orders of battle, weapons and equipment of the armies and armed forces of the involved nations for different periods of WW2.

Junior officer followed by soldiers of LAH

1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte-SS-Adolf Hitler

Creation, organization, commanders, actions, particularities and the end of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte-SS-Adolf Hitler. 1st SS Panzer Division Read more

Waffen-SS divisions 13-19

13 Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Handschar, 14 Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (1st Ukrainian), 15 Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (1st Latvian), 16 SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Reichsführer-SS, Read more

Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hadschi Amin Al Husseini

Waffen-SS divisions 20-25

20 Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (1st Estonian), 22 SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division Maria Theresia (Volunteer cavalry division), 23 Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Kama (2nd Croatian Read more

Greek Armed Forces 1940-41

Strength and organization of the Armed Forces of Greece 1940-41. Divisions and equipment, aircraft of the Air Force and ships Read more

Waffen-SS divisions 26-32

Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 26 (2nd Hungarian) - 32 (30th January). Many of the following listed divisions were purely Read more

Waffen-SS divisions 33-38

Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 33 (3rd Hungarian) - 38 (Nibelungen). Several of this last nominal 'divisions' of the Waffen-SS Read more

German paratroopers with a 7.5-cm PaK 40

Military performance

The German military performance during World War Two. Part III of the assessment of the fighting power of the Wehrmacht Read more

Romanian infantry in the battle of Sevastopol

Romanian Armed Forces 1942

Strength and Organization of the Army, Air Force and Navy of Romania in 1942. Romanian Orders of Battle at the Read more

German Orders of Battle October 1943

The German Orders of Battle from October 4, 1943, after the surrender and occupation of Italy. The German Orders of Read more

Performance on the Russian Front

The German military performance on the Russian Front during the Second World War. Part IV of the analysis of fighting Read more

Italian infantry in the Western Desert i

Italian Armed Forces 1942

Strength and Organization of the Italian Army and Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) in 1942. Italian Orders of Battle in Africa Read more

German advance on the muddy roads of Yugoslavia.

German Orders of Battle Balkans Campaign

German Orders of Battle on 5 April 1941 at the attack on Yugoslavia and Greece. German Army, Airborne Forces and Read more

Hungarian Armed Forces 1942

Strength and Organization of the Army and Air Force of Hungary in 1942. Hungarian Army, Orders of Battle, divisions and Read more

Men of the Belgrade 'Iron Regiment' on the march

Yugoslavia Armed Forces

Strength and organization of the Yugoslav Army, Air Force and Navy in 1941. Divisions and equipment, aircraft and types, warships. Read more

German armored cars Donets Basin Steppes

German Orders of Battle and the second summer offensive in Russia

German Orders of Battle before the summer offensive in Russia (Operation Blue) of June 24, 1942. Here to the previous Read more

German tank has knocked-out and rolled over a Russian AT gun

German Orders of Battle - Kursk July 1943

German Orders of Battle at the time of the tank battle of Kursk and the Allied invasion of Sicily from Read more

Russian counter-attack with tank support

Red Army 1941

Strength and Organization of the Red Army at Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. The Red Army in 1941 The Winter Read more

German Orders of Battle - Operation Barbarossa

German Orders of Battle shortly after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on June 27, 1941, in the evening. Russian Campaign Read more

SS at War

Waffen-SS at War - Hitler's Elite soldiers in combat (Part II). From the first campaigns in Poland, in the West Read more

Waffen-SS divisions 4-6

Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 4 - 6 (4 SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division, 5 SS-Panzer-Division Wiking (W), 6 SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord). Waffen-SS divisions Polizei, Read more

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German military parade — Adolf Hitler at a military parade for the reintroduction of the military service.

On 1 September 1939 the armed forces of Nazi Germany began WW2 by invading Poland. With the notable exception of the German Wehrmacht, the organization and many weapons of the armed forces which fought the early campaigns was dominated by the memories of World War I and this was also the case in the design of uniforms. Not before the end of WW2, organization, uniform, equipment and weapons had often acquired a very modern look, as we knew it until today.