Berlin – Lichtenberg

Soviet Officer on a metro bridge in the suburb of Lichtenberg in April 1945 besides the sign Berlin Bleibt Deutsch or Berlin remains German after the battle for the city.

Trois-Vierges

Allied soldier in Trois-Vierges Luxembourg during the battle of the bulge looking at a grafitti slogan saying “Hinter der letzten schlacht dieser Krieges steht unser Sieg” or in English “Behind the last battle of this war lies our victory“.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu

Kleinblittersdorf (2)

Lt. Richard H. Davis, Pensacola, Fla., Company B, 253rd Inf., 63rd Division, points to the German statement on the wall of a house with a potato masher (kitchen type). The sign reads: “Sieg Oder Sibirien” or “Victory or Siberia“.Kleinblittersdorf, Germany. 21 February, 1945.
Then image: Signal Corps / SC 411796
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu.

Kleinblittersdorf (1)

Pfc. Abraham Green, medic, New Haven, Conn., 253rd Regiment, 63rd Division, stops, reads and wonders at a German sign, “We fight for the future of our children“, in the town Kleinblittersdorf cleared of the enemy 21 February 1945.
Then image: US Signal Corps / SC 411797
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu

Übach Palenberg – Aachener Strasse (3)

Soldier from the U.S. infantry (30th Division) is giving directions in front of Gasthof Dreschers in Übach Palenberg. Written with graffiti on the wall on the left:
Leave civillian stuff alone and on the right looter you ma(y) be shot.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel

Dudeldorf

Two infantrymen from the 5th D.I. of the Third US Army watch a Nazi propaganda inscription inscribed in chalk on a wall, “Die for America and save the English” in Dudeldorf (Germany) March 1945.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: F. Kujat (with permission)

Dodewaard – Waalbanddijk (1)

Two soldiers of the 81st Airborne Anti Aircraft Battalion posing at the Waalbanddijk in Dodewaard the Netherlands in autumn 1944.
Note the grafiti on the wall mentioning the next SS headquarters is 12 km ahead.
Then image: ?
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel

Nideggen (1)

Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Division, US First Army in the town of Nideggen February 1945. German slogan on the wall: Feind bleibt Feind or Enemy stays the Enemy
Then image: US Signal Corps / SC 201520
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu

Bonn – Wilhelmstrasse

Citizens walking through the streets of Bonn shortly after the 1st US-Army captured the city in March 1945. The slogan on the wall: Fight and Victory, despite terror.
Then image: US Army
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu

 

Bonn – Friedrichstrasse

American Soldier on watch in a bombed out house in Bonn, March 1945.
The slogan reads: Victory despite terror!
Then image: US Army
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel