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HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

HORRIFYING FOOTAGE from the late 1930s showing how Spain was used as a testing ground for the weapons of the Axis powers during the Spanish Civil War...

Klaus Bargsten secures the medal ribbon around Kretschmer???s neck / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of the most successful submarine comman...

Kretschmer answers questions from an Army reporter in Lorient in the summer of 1940 / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of the most successful...

Kretschmer receiving his copy of ???The Kretschmer March???, a sonf dedicated to him, while the crew of U99 look on / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating t...

Kretschmer issuing instructions to his crew as U99 leaves port. Flying from the commander???s staff in the background is the boat???s commissioning pe...

Kapit??nleutnant Hermann Michahelles, commander of U35 (left) and Kretschmer in U35???s conning tower. / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of...

Kretschmer at his navigation periscope during the November 1940 patrol in which he won the Oak Leaves. / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career o...

Kretschmer and his IIIWO, Stabsobersteuermann Heinrich Petersen, posing for a photographer on U99???s conning tower in Lorient. Kretschmer / INCREDI...

The Kriegsmarine ensign is raised aboard U99 at the commissioning ceremony when the boat officially became operational. / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrat...

The typically clean-shaven crew of U99 return from patrol, 8 November 1940 / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of the most successful submarin...

The Kriegsmarine ensign is raised aboard U99 at the commissioning ceremony when the boat officially became operational / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustratin...

Otto Kretschmer comes ashore at the Prince???s Landing Stage in Liverpool and into captivity / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of the most s...

Kretschmer meets Adolf Hitler for his award of the Oak Leaves to his Knight???s Cross, 12 November 1940 / NCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of...

Prewar coffee on the forward deck of a Type II / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of the most successful submarine commander of any navy duri...

Sail training was an integral part of Kretschmer???s early experience as an officer cadet in 1930. / INCREDIBLE IMAGES illustrating the career of the...

A portrait of Otto Kretschmer, taken in Lorient during 1940 but retouched to show the Oak Leaves and Swords to his Knight???s Cross / INCREDIBLE IMAG...

Following the Knight???s Cross ceremony, Kretschmer and his crew retired to the foredeck of U99 for a well-earned bottle of beer each. / INCREDIBLE IM...

From left, Norway's Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mette Marit, Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge visit Holmenkollen Ski Ar...

Otto Skorzeny in Pomerania visiting the 500th SS Parachute Battalion, February 1945 / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler...

Watching housing blocks burn in Warsaw during the uprising / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal...

German soldiers on the Eastern Front / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal battalions??? during...

Members of the 36th Grenadier Division / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal battalions??? durin...

Soldiers of the 36th Waffen SS fought to suppress the Warsaw Uprising / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in h...

500th Infantry Battalion troops / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal battalions??? during the S...

German infantryman seeking protection from desert dust: Western Desert, 1942 / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to ser...

Men of the 11th SS Panzer-Grenadier Division Nordland during the Battle of Narva on February 11, 1944 / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals...

SS troops watch as housing blocks burn in Warsaw / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal battalion...

500th SS Paratrooper Battalion soldiers / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal battalions??? duri...

Troops on the move / DISTURBING IMAGES of the imprisoned criminals enlisted by Hitler to serve in his ???penal battalions??? during the Second World W...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...

INCREDIBLE VIDEO and a series of newly colourised pictures from one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War have been released today, on th...