Sevastopol during the Second World War

Leaders of Nazi Germany saw in the Crimea area, which was to be settled by Germans. According to the plans of Hitler, Crimea turned into imperial Gotenland region (country ready), but was renamed in Sevastopol Teodorihskhafen, but these plans have not been implemented. Almost exactly 70 years ago, May 7, 1944 stormed the German positions at Sevastopol, and already on May 9 the town was liberated.

25 photos.





Double mini submarines in the port of Sevastopol. 1942



December 1941. After a partisan attack. Crimea. Photo from a German archive.



Ruined Palace of Pioneers on the Promenade. Sevastopol. 1942.



1942. Shooting from the Flak 88 guns on the ships in the bay of Yalta.



1942. German soldiers on the beach of Sevastopol.



July 1942. Smoke in the port of Sevastopol.



A squad of Germans in the Crimea Tatar farmstead. 1942.



July 1942. Washing clothes in the port of Sevastopol.



The sinking of the cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" at the Count's wharf.



Ruined fort guns Maxim Gorky.



Burning truck after bombardirovki.1942 year.



600-mm mortar "Karl" in the firing position near Sevastopol, 1942



Barrel mortar "Karl".



Unexploded 600 mm. a shell had fallen by 30 coastal defense battery. Sevastopol, 1942



German superheavy gun "Dora" (caliber 800 mm, weight 1450 tons) at position Bakhchisarai. The weapon used in the assault of Sevastopol for the destruction of the fortifications



US soldiers next to the shell and the liner-type gun "Dora".



Fireworks on the grave fighting fellow airmen killed at Sevastopol 24 April 1944



T-34 tank in the street of Sevastopol. May 1944.



Sevastopol in ruins. Bolshaya Morskaya, 1944.



Soldiers posing thrown in the Crimea German Messerschmitt fighter Bf.109



Soviet anti-aircraft gunners in liberated Sevastopol. 1944.



Captured by the Germans. Sevastopol. May 1944.



Sevastopol. May 1944.



1944. This is all that remains of the conquerors.



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