June 5, 1944: allied troops on the flag draped balcony of Palazza Venezia, from which Mussolini used to address the people of Rome, while people celebrate below them.
June 2016, same place.
1944: a Dodge WC 56 carrying americans and equipped with a RL-26 Reel Unit (for laying telephone lines) leaves Carentan heading to St Lo. View attachment 12858 View attachment 12859
Wreck of the old Anhalter Bahnhof railway terminus in Berlin, 1939.
During the war the Anhalter Bahnhof was one of three stations used to deport some 55,000 Berlin jews between 1941 and 1945, about a third of the city's entire jewish population (as of 1933).