The Ghosts of World War II's Past (20 photos)

MIJ-VI · #1 08-05-2010, 10:54 PM

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/...-world-war-iis

Radical Edward · #2 08-05-2010, 10:56 PM

I actually just discovered these same pics, like yesterday. Pretty crazy.
Nice post.

jp58 · #3 08-06-2010, 12:13 AM

Really like the pics. Can really put things into perspective sometimes.

machine gewehr · #4 08-06-2010, 02:16 AM

Those were great,thanks for sharing.

Relic · #5 08-06-2010, 04:57 AM

I've seen that recently, great stuff. In a way it's kind of creepy at how a place can look so serene or normal but go back 60 or so years and it was anything but.

i_got_a_mohawk · #6 08-06-2010, 05:16 AM

Awesome

Stingray89 · #7 08-06-2010, 06:14 PM

Pretty epic stuff. Thanks for sharing them.

sloasdaylight · #8 08-06-2010, 06:17 PM

That was un-real.

MEKer · #9 08-06-2010, 11:01 PM

Love the old pics! I've quite a few interesting ones as my Mom and her side of the family went thru WWII in Germany (Wiesbaden). My Grandfather was an officer in the Wehrmacht, in a cavalry (reconnaissance) outfit and spent 2 yrs in New York state as a captured POW after the war ended. Then he was released and went back to Germany.

My uncles were on the Eastern front and 2 of them survived that mess and they immigrated to Canada after release by the Russians. Them....no pics. And they never told stories. Brr.

MIJ-VI · #10 08-07-2010, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MEKer

Love the old pics! I've quite a few interesting ones as my Mom and her side of the family went thru WWII in Germany (Wiesbaden). My Grandfather was an officer in the Wehrmacht, in a cavalry (reconnaissance) outfit and spent 2 yrs in New York state as a captured POW after the war ended. Then he was released and went back to Germany.

My uncles were on the Eastern front and 2 of them survived that mess and they immigrated to Canada after release by the Russians. Them....no pics. And they never told stories. Brr.

Yeah, a lot of folks from Europe emigrated to Canada after WW II in an effort to leave all memory of the war behind them...

What I like about the photomontage linked to in the OP is that it helps to humanize distant, often dry and detached episodes of history.

As does this: THE GREAT WAR IN COLOUR BEGINING OF THE WAR Part 1/5