On the Place Kléber, in Strasbourg, German prisoners clear the cobblestones that appeared to be barricades. Sherman tanks in the background belong to the 3rd squadron of the 12th RCA (African Fighter Regiment) which took part in the liberation of the city i November 1944.
Then image: http://www.ecpad.fr
Source: SCA-ECPAD, Reference: TERRE-339-L8179
(non commercial use only)
Photograpy: Jacques Beling – Ronald Lennad
Ede – Arnhemseweg (1)
Infantry of the 11th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 49th (West Riding) Division, searching houses in Ede in Holland, 17 April 1945.
Then image: Imperial War Museum
© IWM (BU 4217)
Creator: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Handford (Lt)
Then image: WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel
Budapest – Elisabeth Bridge (1)
Russian Soldiers are liberating the city of Budapest of Nazism in 1944-1945. But instead of liberating the city, the Russians occupied the city.
Then image: ??
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.eu / Cor Sleutel
Budapest – Gellert Hill
Two german soldiers are enjoying the view from the Gellert Hill in Budapest. This is one of my favorite shots.
Then image: After the battle magazine issue 40
Original Source: ?
Now image: WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel
Aachen – Adalbersteinweg / Oranienstraße (1)
Private in conversation with HQ during the battle of Aachen in 1944 at the corner of Adalbertsteinweg junction Oranienstraße.
Then image: US Signal Corps / SC195637
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Vienna – Heldenplatz (3)
Hitler arriving at the heldenplatz for his speech to the Viennese from a balcony of the Habsburg palace, the Hofburg, on 15 March 1938. In the background is the heroic statue of Archduke Karl.
Then image: Heinrich Hoffmann, “Hitler in seiner Heimat,” Munich, 1938
Now image: WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel

Vienna – Heldenplatz (2)
Hitler arriving at the heldenplatz for his speech to the Viennese from a balcony of the Habsburg palace, the Hofburg, on 15 March 1938. In the background is the heroic statue of Archduke Karl.
Then image: http://adolfhitlerbestpictures.blogspot.nl
Source: Heinrich Hoffmann, “Hitler in seiner Heimat,” Munich, 1938
Now image: WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel
Vienna – Heldenplatz (1)
Russian Soldiers at the Heldenplatz in 1945. The place where once Hitler in 1938 declared Austria “Heim in Reich”.
Then image: https://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.nl
Now image: WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel
Vienna – Mariahilfer Straße
Cheering people at Hitler’s Victory Pararde in 1938 at the Vienna Ring in Vienna.
Then image: https://austria-forum.org
Copyright: © APA / HeinrichHoffmann / ÖNB (non commercial use only)
Now image :WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel
Gemen – Ahauser Straße (2)
Operation Varsity: Motor transport of 7th Armoured Division in Gemen during the advance in Germany, 30 March 1945.
Then image: Imperial War Museum (see below)
© IWM (BU 2832)
Creator: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Travis (Sgt)
Now image: WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel