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Second world war in Google Street View

 

 

Nazis march through Paris, London weathers the blitz and Hiroshima faces devastation as our Street View specialist Halley Docherty takes us back to the cities of the second world war

 

Photography then and now: German POWs in London, 1919

 

Halley Docherty

 

theguardian.com, Tuesday 20 May 2014 10.43 BST

 

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German soldiers parade down the Champs-Elysées in Paris, June 1940. All images: Halley Docherty for the Guardian

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Mounted German soldiers parade from the Arc de Triomphe onto Avenue Foch

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A boy reaches out to his father as Canada's British Columbia Regiment marches through New Westminster, BC, on 1 October 1940

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On 14 October 1940, during the London blitz, a bomb partially destroyed the Balham station civilian air raid shelter

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Cranes remove a bus from the Balham bomb crater, October 1940

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The bridge connecting two sections of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, pictured in the first half of 1942, a year before the Warsaw uprising

 

 

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A boy salutes US troops at a parade in San Antonio, Texas, on 1 July 1942

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Crowds watch the D-Day newsline ticker at Times Square, New York City, on 6 June 1944

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Jubliant crowds line the Champs-Elysées after the liberation of Paris in August 1944

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A German civilian gazes at a poster of Soviet leader Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden, Berlin, on 3 June 1945

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Russian soldiers rally at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945

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A man surveys the wreckage left by the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. The ruins of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (pictured), one of the few buildings to remain standing, are now part of the Peace Memorial Park

 

Πηγή: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/may/20/second-world-war-google-street-view-nazis-paris-london-blitz?CMP=fb_gu

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