Showing posts with label Now and Then. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Now and Then. Show all posts

Monday, May 24, 2021

212. Infanterie-Division Crossing Viaduc de Dinan


German 212. Infanterie-Division stationed in France, 1941. This impressive bridge is Viaduc de Dinan in Brittany. Dinan is without doubt one of the most attractive and best preserved small towns in Brittany. With its 1.8 mile (3km)-long ramparts, half-timbered houses, attractive port and cobbled streets filled with art galleries and craft shops. Wherever you are, you won’t miss the 131ft (40m)-high viaduct. From the estate of Eugen Kastner.

Viaduc de Dinan now


Source :
Akira Takiguchi photo collection
https://www.brittanytourism.com/destinations/the-10-destinations/cap-frehel-saint-malo-mont-saint-michel-bay/dinan/
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Saturday, August 22, 2020

Gathering of Marine-NSKK



NSKK Truppführers gathering


 A Marine-NSKK Hauptsturmführer and his medal bar (he looks like the Gestapo guy from Indiana Jones Raiders of the lost Ark!). You can see an Olympic cross 2nd class.  The German Olympic Decoration (German: Deutsche Olympia-Ehrenzeichen or Deutsches Olympiaehrenzeichen) was a civil decoration of Nazi Germany awarded to administrators of the IV Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Games of the XI Olympiad in Berlin 1936. The award was not intended for actual participants in the Olympic Games, but rather in recognition of those who had orchestrated the "behind the scenes" preparations and work for the events.


 These slides were taken on the corner "Zimmerstraße/Wilhelmstraße", Berlin. This is a comparison photo from today, presented by Axel Urbanke. In the time of the Cold War there was the Berlin wall. At this place Peter Fechner was shoot in May 1962 by DDR bordertroops. This incident is well known in germany.


Source :
Akira Takiguchi photo collection
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