Zoeken

Zoek op namen, gebeurtenissen of plaatsen. Hulp nodig? Bekijk de zoekhulp

Het originele bijschrift luidt: Germany's Road Genius at Public Works Exhibition in London. Dr. Fritz Todt, General Inspector of German Roads and the man responsible for Germany's wonderful motor highway system, visited the Public Works Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, London, with Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health. Dr. Fritz Todt (right) and Sir Kingsley Wood (left) inspecting a ...

Pagina uit het fotoalbum van J.C. Beekhof. Beekhof wordt voor de oorlog lid van de NSB en maakt later deel uit van de Mussertgarde. Als lid van de WA volgt hij een opleiding in België aan de Motorschool en vertrekt naar Duitsland. Uiteindelijk komt Beekhof aan het Oostfront in de Sovjet Unie terecht, tot en met maart 1943. Af en toe is hij terug in België en Nederland. In april 1943 gaat hij met verlof ...

Nazis watch U.S. advance. Captive German officers watch from the side of the autobahn as vehicles of the Sixth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, approach Giessen, Reich city 30 miles north of Frankfurt, which was entered March 28, 1945. By April 3, 1945, racing armored columns of the Third Army drove through the Fulda Gap, parallel with the Frankfurt-Dresden autobahn, to reach a point 155 miles southwest ...

German prisoners surrender. Carrying a white surrender flag, German soldiers walk unescorted along the Cologne-Frankfurt Autobahn to give themselves up to the rapidly advancing First U.S. Army. The 300,000th German prisoner taken by the First U.S. Army since D-Day (June 6, 1944) was captured March 26, 1945. By the end of March, Allied armies controlled practically the entire motor highway from Cologne ...

German civilians hear new laws. The only civilian policeman in Dernbach, Germany, acts as the town cryer March 27, 1945, to read the new rules of behavior laid down by Military Government authorities of the First U.S. Army. Eight miles east of the Rhine and east of the Cologne-Frankfurt autobahn, Dernbach was cleared as the Allies armies gained control of the highway.

Three German soldiers rest after capture. Three German soldiers captured near Huseheid, east of the Rhine and one-half mile west of the great Cologne-Frankfurt autobahn, rest as they wait in a First U.S. Army prisoner-of-war enclosure for shipment to the rea. Left to right: A soldier of 41 years, one of 16 and another of 46. Since the start of the large-scale Allied offensive February 8, 1945, into ...

U.S. soldier fires at snipers. A soldier of the First U.S. Army fires at a sniper on the outskirts of Wershau, west of the Cologne-Frankfurt autobahn. Clouds of smoke rise from the town as shells from American artillery pount German troops, Wershau is five miles south east of Limburg, cleared by armor and troops of the First Army March 27, 1945.

Temidden van de Duitse wouden rijden drie Volkswagens, één met linnen roldak, een cabriolet en een dichte carrosserie over een pas gereedgekomen Autobahn.

German prisoners captured by photographers. German prisoners captured by photographers attached to the First U.S. Army (in jeep) are marched to the rear along the Frankfurt-Cologne autobahn. On March 26, the 300,000th German prisoner taken by the First U.S. Army since D-Day (June 6, 1944) was captured.

German prisoners captured by photographers. German prisoners captured by photographers attached to the First U.S. Army (in jeep) are marched to the rear along the Frankfurt-Cologne autobahn. On March 26, the 300,000th German prisoner taken by the First U.S. Army since D-Day(June 6, 1944) was captured.