The Tirpitz in June 1942 in Fættenfjord near Trondheim, Norway. Note the light /dark grey splinter-pattern disruptive camouflage. This was one of several paint schemes sported by Tirpitz during her service career. This photo is apparently taken from the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and is showing the Tirpitz to the right and to the left of the Tirpitz and a German destroyer can be seen. Commissioning of the Tirpitz.
The officers of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (motorisiert) pose a rollicking in front of the Palace of Versailles, France, shortly after the success of the Wehrmacht military operation in the West in 1940 (Fall Gelb). This photo was taken on July 17, 1940 shortly after the award ceremony Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse. Some of them face can be recognized: 1. SS-Oberscharführer Fritz Bügelsack (Panzerspähzug / LSSAH), 2. SS-Hauptsturmführer Alexander Sukkau (Chef 10.Batterie / SS-Artillerie-Bataillon LSSAH), 3. SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Weidenhaupt (Chef 10 .Sturm / III.Sturmbann / LSSAH), 4. SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Baum (Chef 7.Sturm / II.Sturmbann / LSSAH), 5. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Mohnke (Kommandeur II.Sturmbann / LSSAH), 6. SS- Hauptsturmführer Georg "Schonberger" Schönberger (Chef Panzersturm-Batterie / LSSAH), 7. SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (Kommandeur LSSAH), 8. SS-Standartenführer August-Wilhelm Trabandt (Kommandeur III.Sturmbann / LSSAH), 9. SS-Obersturmbannführer Martin Kohlroser (Kommandeur I.Sturmbann / LSSAH), 10. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Keilhaus (He Erster Generalstabsoffizier LSSAH), 11. SS-Obersturmbannführer der Reserve Walter Staudinger (Kommandeur SS-Artillerie-Bataillon LSSAH), 12. SS-Hauptsturmführer Herbert Garthe (Chef 12.MG-Sturm / III.Sturmbann / LSSAH), and 13, SS-Oberscharführer Erich Gratz (Gruppenführer in 11.Sturm / III.Sturmbann / LSSAH). In addition, the SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt Meyer (Chef 15. [Kradschützen] Sturm / III.Sturmbann / LSSAH) is in the second row between no.7 and no.8; SS-Obersturmführer Hugo Kraas (Zugführer II / 15. [Kradschützen] Sturm / III.Sturmbann / LSSAH) behind no.2; SS-Sturmbannführer Theodor "Teddy" Wisch (Kommandeur IV.Wachtbataillon / LSSAH) in the third row behind no.3; and SS-Obersturmführer Albert Frey (Chef 9.Sturm / III.Sturmbann / LSSAH) behind no.5