[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

Jahnallee 61, second floor balcony, Leipzig: The place where american infantryman Raymond J. "Robert" Bowman (21) was killed by a german sniper, on April 18, 1945.
The famous photographer Robert Capa captured images of the fight, Bowman's death, and the immediate aftermath, which gained fame in Life magazine with the caption "The picture of the last man to die.".
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The same place today:
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The apartment’s current owner, Mrs. Katrin Stein, said she tried not to think too much about what had happened there.

In July 2015, the city of Leipzig, voted to name the street (Jahnallee 61) in front of the apartment building where Raymond Bowman was killed “Bowmanstraße” after him. The renaming took place on April 17, 2016.
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Looking from Afanasiivske Street down to Hyivs'ka Street during the Third Battle of Kharkov, 1943. The Gosprom building at the city centre can be seen in distance.

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Panzer IV on Hyivs'ka Street during the Third Battle of Kharkov, 1943. The Gosprom building at the city centre can be seen in distance.

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StuG III during the Battle of Stalingrad, August 1942 – February 1943. The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961. Google Street View looking from ul. Mikhaila Balonina.

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Looking back from the past, a Soviet policeman on Gorky Street [now Tverskaya Street], Moscow, Russia, on August 1st, 1941. In the following weeks, 665,000 of his compatriots in the Red Army will be encircled by the Germans in the vicinity of Kiev. The greatest loss of men to an encirclement maneuver in the history of warfare.

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The Siege of Leningrad, September 1941 - January 1944. Leningradians collecting water from a hole on Nevsky Prospect. The former Russian capital, it's name was changed back to Saint Petersburg in 1991.

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Harrowing days. Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg] in Russia, during the Leningrad Blockade of September 1941 to January 1944.

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German units advance cautiously along Utrechtseweg, Arnhem, the Netherlands, in September of 1944, during the Allies ill-fated Operation Market Garden - the attempt to end the war by Christmas that year.

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German armor abandoned in La Gleize, Belgium, where Kampfgruppe Peiper was forced to halt it's westward drive. [Note Tiger II with segment of gun blown off.] Ardennes Offensive of December 1944 – January 1945.

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The Univermag Department Store in Stalingrad. The final headquarters of the German 6th Army in the Battle for Stalingrad, August 1942 – February 1943.

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It should be noted that all 'now' images in my 'then and now' pictures are attributed to Google and Google Street View and used by me under the Fair Use act. Thank you.
 
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