[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

[Louis]

German forces and two american POWs aboard a captured Jeep, in Arnhem, Netherlands.

 

[Louis]

Exchange of shots in Aachen, Oct 1944.

Credit Cor Sleutel/Pinterest

 

[Myles]

The Battle of Stalingrad. The Germans place an 88 mm Flak gun at the intersection of Socialist and Barrikadnaya streets, facing north, in case of a Soviet counterattack.

 

[Louis]

Hey @Myles It's good to know about you !

 

[Myles]

Hey @Myles It's good to know about you !

Aw, thanks very much Louis. Appreciated.

 

[Louis]

Ruins at Berlin Cathedral, July 1945.

 

[Louis]

Curious around a Ju-88 bomber in front of the Revolution Square, Moscow. No exact date.

 

[Louis]

Bands of the British army's 38th Brigade playing in front of St Peter's Basilica, Vtican city - June 1944.

 

[Louis]

Krakow ghetto: German Order Police and Jewish residents of the ghetto are photographed in front of the ghetto gate in Limanowskiego and Rynek Podgórski streets.
Between March 1941 and March 1943 a small section of the Podgórze district of Krakow was walled off and served as a holding pen, or ghetto, for about 15,000 Jewish residents of Krakow. The walls and gates are variously reported as having been built by forced Jewish labor or Polish contractors, probably a mixture of both. The writing above the gate reads “Jewish residential area” in German but rendered in Yiddish script.

 

[Louis]

Change of guard front the Capitol of Toulouse during the german occupation.

 

[Louis]

Headquarters of the Schalburg Corps, a Danish SS unit, after 1943, Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen.

 

[Louis]

Cromwell tank with Challenger tank, outside Hamburg Dammtor Train station, 5 May 1945.

 

[mTk]

What a great-looking old building.

 

[Louis]

Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov riding horse during a Victory Parade in Red Square, Moscow, marking victory over Germany, June 1945.

 

[Louis]

Parisians march through the Arc de Triomphe jubilantly waving flags of the Allied Nations as they celebrate the end of the war, May 8, 1945.

French citizens gather near the Arc de Triomphe to celebrate after France defeated Croatia in the final of the FIFA World Cup, this last Sunday.

 

[Louis]

The Bank of England and Royal Exhange after the raid during the night of 11 January 1941. The bomb exploded in the booking-hall of the Bank Underground Station. The crater, 1,800 sq ft in area, was the largest in London.

 

[Louis]

A M4 Sherman with dozer blade drives through the entrance of the Aachen-Rothe Erde railroad station, Germany - Oct. 20, 1944.

 

[Louis]

Oslo, Sept 7, 1942. Front the Royal Castle, Vidkun Quisling with German soldiers.

 

[Louis]

During the occupation, the Gestapo settles with the Ritz Hotel, Paris.
The swastika flew above the Eiffel Tower and other luxurious hotels ‘vanished behind shutters’, but at the Ritz, the suites were full. The hotel was ostensibly spared because Marie-Louise, the German-speaking widow of the founder, Cesar Ritz, was Swiss. Then, the Ritz was designated neutral territory, ‘a Switzerland in Paris’. (text from dailymail)

 

[Louis]

Rome, March 1944: German soldiers and Italian collaborators round-up of civilians in front of the Palazzo Barberini.