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Post by belgiumreporter on Jul 31, 2014 15:06:20 GMT -5
During (and after) the second world war my aunt had a photo shop in Antwerp. She kept on running the shop even if it was wartime and Belgium was occupated by the germans. German soldiers came in as customers to have their films developed and printed and my aunt did some photoreporting work herselve. After she died she left me with some of her photographs (sadly not much as a lot was lost). Here's what i've found in an album she left me, the second photograph is my mother in front of my aunts store .   |
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Post by philbirch on Jul 31, 2014 15:24:06 GMT -5
Wow! fascinating stuff, can we see more pictures please?
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Post by SidW on Jul 31, 2014 17:49:03 GMT -5
Her customers were German soldiers. Reminds me of the South African war (1900-02). A lot of British soldiers had cameras with them, and sent their film to Johannesburg for processing, while it was still held by the Boers. A remarkable paradox.
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Post by philbirch on Jul 31, 2014 18:09:35 GMT -5
Her customers were German soldiers. Reminds me of the South African war (1900-02). A lot of British soldiers had cameras with them, and sent their film to Johannesburg for processing, while it was still held by the Boers. A remarkable paradox. All's fair in war and peace, and customers are customers - to m̶i̶x̶ mangle my metaphors. |
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Post by belgiumreporter on Aug 19, 2014 14:39:02 GMT -5
Wow! fascinating stuff, can we see more pictures please? Yes you can, i finally got around doing some scans, here's a few:     Should you or anyone else be interested in some more after seing these, then there's more from where they came from... |
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Post by philbirch on Aug 19, 2014 17:19:31 GMT -5
Thanks for more of these photos, the captions in the albums tell a story. I love the listening apparatus, we had similar on this side.
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Post by genazzano on Oct 17, 2014 3:09:28 GMT -5
In Feb. 1944 the ancient abbey on Monte Cassino was heavily bombed destroying the site that dated back to the 6th century. There is a small museum in the restored abbey. In the museum is a display case containing the surviving remains of crucifixes found in the bombed ruins.  David |
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Post by cruzerlou on Apr 17, 2015 13:39:01 GMT -5
Well I have 2 first is my only pic of my dad in uniform . This pic was taken on 06 , Aug 1945 in a town called Bad Wildungen ,Germany,  and this camera that brought me to this forum in the first place . So far as I know it's the only thing my Dad brought back with him from Europe   |
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Post by philbirch on Apr 17, 2015 17:27:16 GMT -5
My paternal grandfather taken during WW2, my dad was just a young boy then. British Army. I know almost nothing else about him other than his 'second' family's son Paul Birch played for Aston Villa. Paul I guess would be my 'half uncle' and only about 4 or 5 years older than me. I've not seen him in 56 years.  |
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Post by John Farrell on Apr 17, 2015 20:48:35 GMT -5
My dad.  |
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