Echoes of the Past World War Two website features both the Echoes from the Past blog covering news in relation to the period before during and after the Second world War. It is also the home to my collection of German Axis military photos from the period 1935 to 1945.

The Echoes from the Past news blog covers stories from the period prior to, during and following the Second World War, with a specific interest to the arms, armour and men and women who participated in the conflict from all nations.

German Axis military photos from the period 1935 to 1945 – All the photographs presented on wwii.co.uk are taken from original photographic prints which are owned by the author or from other orginal period publictions, such as the weekly German army magazine Die Wehrmacht. In the instance that a photograph is from another source it will be credited as such.

The majority of  photographs are either press photos taken by the various press agencies throughout the war, or from personal collections taken by individual soldiers.  As some of the photographs are from press agencies they may appear in other publications and may be well know to you. However those that appear on wwii.co.uk are all scanned from original prints or period publications in my collection. Some never being published before, and in some cases these may be the only surviving prints of the photographs.

If you wish to use any of the images on the site please can you maintain a credit to their source namely www.wwii.co.uk. I would also appreciate, if you could also  send me a email to simon@wwii.co.uk asking permission for there use, permission will nearly always be given, it simply lets me know where the images are being used.

If you wish to reprint any of the photographs in any printed matter (book, magazine etc) again please contact me and I will be able to arrange to supply a higher quality scan for print purposes, and again please credit the source as www.wwii.co.uk / Simon Chapman (Private Collection)

If you would like to contribute to wwii.co.uk and you have original copies of photographs from the period I would be happy to host them on the site where I will credit the owner and include any description along with the image. Please submit any photographs as .jpg or .png files to a max width of 640 pixels. To submit photographs or to enquire about this or anything else please email: info@wwii.co.uk

If you wish to add or contribute to the descriptions alongside each photograph or wish to report an error or correction please email: info@wwii.co.uk stating the image and where possible a page URL. I aim to get as much information as possible along side each photograph so please do email even if its only a minor addition.

Many thanks.

Simon Chapman (Site owner)