Troops of the 2nd Bn Devons, 131 Bd. 7 A/Div, clearing the town of Echt of Germans left behind to harass the advance North.
Then image: © IWM B 13756
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Nieuwstadt – Beekstraat (1)
Troops of the 1st Rifle Brigade take cover as a mortar bomb explodes in a stream in the village of Nieuwstadt, north of Sittard, 3 January 1945.
Then image: © IWM B 13385
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Echt – Rijksweg Noord
A German Propaganda slogan on a house in Echt, 1945.
The slogan reads: Not again slavery!
Then image: https://www.echterlandj.nl/
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Echt – Peijerstraat
US soldiers looking at a German Propaganda text on the wall of a house in Echt, The Netherlands, during Operation Blackcock, 1945. The slogan reads: People stand up!
Then image: ?
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Gennep – Picardie
The first infantry in the town of Gennep, 13 PI “C” Coy 5th Black Watch take another house in their advance up the main street.
Then image: © IWM B 14619
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Geilenkirchen – Julicher Strasse (2)
A M26 Pacific Truck from the 464th Ordnance Evacuation Company is dragging a Panther tank inside of Geilenkirchen from the area of Prummern, november 1944.
Then image: USNA
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Geilenkirchen – Julicher Strasse (1)
GI’s cleaning the streets of Geilenkirchen, november 1944.
Then image: ?
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Bocholt – Karolinerstraße
Troops of the Monmouthsire Regiment move up to through the shattered streets of the town, 29 March 2020
Then image: © IWM BU 2780
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Hamminkeln – Bislicher Straße (2)
Prisoners rounded up in Hamminkeln, 25 March 1945
Then image: © IWM BU 2299
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München – Siegestor
The end of the Third reich is near in München at the Siegestor, april 1945.
Then photo: Bayerisches Landesamt
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