US-soldiers of the 97th nfantry Division in the Willhelmstrasse, Siegburg, around 9 april 1945. Left outside the photo is the trainstation of Siegburg.
Then image: http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de
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Fort Breendonk (2)
Prisoners at work in Auffanglager Breendonk, Belgium
Then image: ?? Fort Breendonk
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Fort Breendonk
The photo shows SS Sturmbannführer Schmitt and his dog in SS-Auffanglager Breendonk in Belgium. From left to right: Frans Wilms, Arthur Prauss, Schmitt, Ernst Lais and Walter Müller
Then image: ?? Fort Breendonk
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Hondzocht – Edingensesteenweg
Cromwell and Stuart tanks of Guards Armoured Division passing German POWs during the advance to Brussels, 3 September 1944.
Then image: https://www.iwm.org.uk
Catalogue number: BU 546
Creator: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit Hewitt (Sgt)
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Rome – Piazza Venezia
Tiger tank in Rome in 1944 before the monument of Victor Emanuel II at the Piazza Venezia.
Then image: ??
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Rome – Via di Ripetta
German tanks in Rome, near Piazza del Populo probably in 1943 or 1944.
Then image: ?
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Haarlem – Wilhelminapark
Wilhelminapark Haarlem, the Netherlands. It looks like sort of a school for nazi or NSB childeren.
Then image: Noord Hollands Archief
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Florence – Via Mazetta / Via Romana
Sherman tank of the 20th Armoured Regiment with troops from New Zealand entering Florence at the corner of the Via Mazetta and the Via Romana. Not the perfect angle but still doable.
Then image: George Kay (ATL)
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Geilenkirchen – Konrad-Adenauer-Straße
A M26 Pacific truck tractor of the 464 Ordnance Evacuation Company dragging a German Panther tank in Geilenkirchen around November 1944.
Then image: USNA
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Aachen – Adalbertsteinweg (1)
American soldiers during the Battle of Aachen before the Courthouse at the Adalbertsteinweg in 1944.
Then image: US Army
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