Many years ago I decided to combine WW2 then & now photos as part of research I was doing.
It caught on and I made more.
History is all around us.
The ghosts of history.
Cherbourg, avenue de Paris, ancien Poste de Police, jardin Public.
Soldiers crossing under fire, 1944.
Captain WH Hooper, who commands the Company of the 314th IR of the 79th IUS D and some of his men surround a column of German prisoners.
Column takes a southerly direction, it will join the POW camps located on the plateau of the Mountain Roule, near the farm of Fieffe.
American soldiers at the Place Marie Ravenel à Cherbourg.
Rue Dom Pedro, civilians and American soldiers tear down the sign indicating the headquarters of the Todt organization in Cherbourg.
Graphic.
26 June 1944, German soldier lying dead on a sidewalk in front of the old café Etasse, Rue Armand Levéel to Cherbourg.
Graphic.
American soldier looking at the body of a German soldier killed after a fierce fight.
Rue Armand Levéel à Cherbourg, 1944.
I wonder if the people who live there today know about this.
British troops, 1943, Acireale, Sicily.
The new order looking around the Binnenhof in The Hague, the seat of government in the Netherlands.
Nazi occupation, German Ortskommandantur at the Lange Voorhout, The Hague.
Secretly made photo by resistance member on bicycle.
Today the building is the Spanish Embassy.
Dam Square, Amsterdam.
Where today tourists mingle once the SS tried to recruit volunteers.
The one that started it all.
I found hundreds of never before published war photos at a flea market, trying to trace where the people in this photo worked I wandered the streets of Amsterdam till I finally found these steps and eventually their work.
More in another thread soon.
Dam Square in Amsterdam moments after the shooting of May 7th 1945.
Just after the German capitulation, for uncertain reasons, (perhaps a firefight) Germans opened fire on the crowds waiting for their liberators.
More than 30 people were killed.
Finally my uncle Dirk.
Portrait of him young & old combined, once a young man with PTSD who just returned from the Battle of the Java Sea and years of being a POW and forced labourer on the Burma Railway.
It never let him go.
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Time to look at another photo album in my collection, a tiny one this time with one picture on each page, showing us the adventures of some Dutch girl scouts in the early 1930s.
This Friday the game 'Manor Lord' is coming out, it's a medieval city builder that I've made a modest contribution to as a historical consultant and beta tester for.
I've been very excited about it for a long time and I'm not the only one, it's creating quite a buzz and has ended up on a lot of wishlists.
What I love about it most is that it tries to depict the middle ages in an accurate way, behind the scenes historians, experts & history addicts have been debating the tiniest details.
I think the result is one of the most historically accurate medieval games I've ever played.
#Manorlords
So let's have a sneak peek at it shall we?
First, here's an official video:
Before you start you set up your profile and design your own family crest, look familiar?
This bit alone is SUCH fun, you can fiddle and play with this editor for ages till you get exactly what you want and then you'll see it on the banners in the game!
SUCH FUN!
Sigh.
An account with half a million followers just tweeted that long debunked 'life in the 1500s' nonsense, 2.2 million people have seen it.
So here we go again...
Recently I spotted a little holiday photo album for sale, usually I'm not interested in them because such photos are generally a bit boring, but I spotted a tiny detail that told me the album was very interesting.
Yes, that V sign.
Let's check the album out together.
Photo 🧵!
The album starts in Dresden, April 10th 1941.
Less then 4 years after the photo was taken this church would be a ruin.