[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

[mTk]

I was there for a day as a kid, about 10 and don't remember much, but the view and the apes.

 

[Louis]

Women celebriting the VE Day in front of L'église de la Madeleine, Paris, May 8, 1945.
And April 2018.

 

[Louis]

Soviet soldiers at front of Neue Burg in Vienna, Austria, Apr-May 1945.- The Neue Burg was built in 1881-1913 as a new wing of the imperial palace and as such symbolizes the last convulsions of the Habsburg Empire.
Same place on oct 2018.

 

[Louis]

Spain: Flags with giant swastikas decorated the front of the parliament building in Barcelona, Oct 1942, during the Exhibition of Modern German Architecture and which shows the sympathy of the Francoist Barcelona of the post-civil war to Nazism during the WW2. (text from La Vanguardia, Spain)

 

[Louis]

JS-2 tanks on Gorky Street (today named Tverskaya), Moscow, during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945.

 

[Louis]

Occupied Paris: The German commandant's office in front Place de l'Opéra.

 

[Louis]

London, Oct 1940: A barrier erected by police across Fleet St while an unexploded bomb is dealt with. Also signs showing the temporary addresses of firms which have moved due to wartime disruption are displayed on the barrier.

 

[Louis]

Two sequences of German paratroopers at the Inner Court (Binnenhof), The Hague, shortly after occupying the city, 1940.

 

[Louis]

The Petit Palais in Paris, with swastikas insignias during the german occupation.

 

[rocketman]

The Petit Palais in Paris, with swastikas insignias during the german occupation.

How fitting that the sign in the window in the modern photo states: "The Art of Peace".

 

[Louis]

British soldiers admire the Porch of the Caryatids on the Acropolis, Greece, Oct 1944.

 

[Louis]

Occupied Paris, Aug. 1940: Five german soldiers pose for a photograph in front of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.

 

[Louis]

American troops pass front the Castel Nuovo in Naples, Italy, Oct 1943.

 

[Louis]

London, Aug. 1945: civilians and service personnel in Picadilly Circus celebrate the news of Allied Victory over Japan.
Original text: In London's Piccadilly Circus,a group of servicemen and women, and a civilian woman, link arms as they walk towards the camera, singing as they dance in celebration around Eros (not pictured), on the news that the war in Japan is over. Behind them, crowds of people are gathered in the sunshine. Several buses can also be seen.

 

[Louis]

German cavalry cross below the Eiffel tower in the occupied Paris, 1941.

 

[Louis]

Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec 1944: Bulgarian Pz.Kpfw IV near Saint Aleksandar Nevski cathedral.
And July 2018.

 

[Louis]

Pre-War: German Panzer II tanks during the "Czechoslovak Crisis", in Wenceslas Square, Prague, 20 April 1939.

 

[Louis]

The Blitz: damage around the St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

 

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[mTk]

Same photo.