I had also seen some of this before, but never the full video version. Thank you, Schirmmutze. This is a video of captured German equipment exhibited in Gorky park (aka Central Park of Culture and Leisure) in Moscow. The exhibition opened on 22 June 1943, on the second anniversary of the German invasion, and closed in October 1948.
Seeing the video has spurred me to find similar material. I have found an 80 minute long
Soviet flight test video of captured German aircraft, which I think is important enough to be separated into its own thread - click on
link .
Links to photographs that I have found are below, but be warned that I couldn't get my computer to copy the full links properly, so you'll have to cut and paste the links into your browser search window. The links will work fine once you have done that.
Steve, can you explain the presence of what appear to be He 111Es in the first photograph? I don't think the Luftwaffe operated any on the Eastern front, so are these taken from the batch of aircraft supplied in 1940?
1. Photograph of captured aircraft grouped together.
waralbum.ru/233660
2. Various images from the exhibit, dating from 1943 to 1945 and possibly later
fishki.net/1257591-vystavka-trofejnogo-vooruzhenija-v-parke-gorkogo-1943-g.html
3. Bf 109G-2 and pilot of I./JG 53 captured by the Soviets in September 1942, later exhibited in Gorky park
waralbum.ru/153828
4. Highest-scoring Soviet ace Kozhedub with the wing of a Ju 388 behind
waralbum.ru/35560
5. Zhukov and others next to the first captured Tiger tank
waralbum.ru/16081
6. Soviet amputee and rear view of first captured Tiger tank
waralbum.ru/43758
7. Wrecked Ferdinand tank destroyer, later exhibited in Gorky park
waralbum.ru/41181
8. Armoured vehicles in the exhibition, photograph from autumn 1945
waralbum.ru/38997
Regards,
Paul