80th Infantry Division - Photo Collection

Photo Collection: Paul Oechsner
(Historian, @Thuringia_then_and_now_)
WWII historian Paul Oechsner develops historical WWII "Then & Now" images, with a main focus on Central Germany and Thuringia.
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4th AD drives through Kleinmolsen	318th Reg Erfurt Johannesstrasse, April 12, 1945	A Sherman of the 4th AD crossing a field after passing Kleinmolsen on April 11, 1945
Buchenwald	Burning German Tank in Kleinmolsen, April 11, 1945. Destroyed by the 4th AD.	CCB 4th Armored Division April 11, 1945, Axmans Farm on the ground of the Erfurter Zoo today.
CCB 4th Armored Division at the Roterberg (Redmountain) Erfurt, liberated slave workers in the background.	CCB of the 4th AD in Kleinmolsen firing on fleeing German Tanks.	CCB of the 4th AD north of Erfurt.
CCB of the 4th AD north of Erfurt.	CCB of the 4th AD north of Erfurt.	CCB of the 4th AD north of Erfurt.
Erfurt.	German National Theatre, Weimar.	German Tank IV in Kleinmolsen.
GIs at the Buchenwald Maingate a few days after the Liberation.	Gisperleben, April 11, 1945.	Gisperleben on April 11, 1945. Vehicles of the CCB of the 4th AD driving through the position of the 317th Reg. Soldiers of the 2nd Bn 317th Reg on foot.
Gispersleben April 11, 1945 Bridge across the Gera River Halftrack of the 4th AD & Soldiers of the 317th Reg on foot.	Gispersleben, April 11, 1945.	Gispersleben in the afternoon of April 10, 1945. Attack of the 2nd Bn of the 317th Regiment.
Hitler at the Goethe and Schiller Memorial in front of the German National Theatre.	Hitler at the window of the Hotel Elephant in 1936.	Hitler in front of the Hotel Elephant in Weimar.
Hitler on the Theatre Square in Weimar.	HQ 80th Div., Neuditendorf, April 13, 1945. Patton and Eisenhower.	Kleinmolsen, CCB 4th Armored Division, April 11, 1945.
Kleinmolsen, CCB 4th Armored Division, April 11, 1945.	Kleinmolsen, CCB 4th Armored Division, April 11, 1945.	Kleinmolsen, CCB 4th Armored Division, April 11, 1945.
Nazi Parade on the Theatre Square in Weimar.	Sherman of the 4th Armored Division in Tottelstadt, April 11, 1945.	Sherman Tanks of the 4th Armored Division bypassing Erfurt in the North on April 11,1945.
Sherman Tanks of the 4th Armored Division bypassing Erfurt in the North on April 11,1945.	Soldiers of the 317th Reg shortly after crossing the Gera River Bridge in Gispersleben around midday of April 11,1945.	View from Tottelstadt to Kleinmolsen CCB 4th Armored Division, April 11 1945.
Weimar, 1939.	Weimar	Weimar
Weimar Military Vehicle	Weimar Herderkirche.	Weimar Library of the Bauhaus University.
Weimar Market Square on April 12, 1945. Troops of the 317th Reg.	Weimar Market Square with troops of the 317th Reg. and 702nd TD.	Weimar Rittergasse-The 317th Reg/2d Bn HQ Company was billited from April 12 to 14, 1945.