5 years ago I posted this private in conversation with HQ during the battle of Aachen in 1944 at the corner of Adalbertsteinweg junction Oranienstraße. This is the second frame of this same location.
Then image: ??
Now image: WW2 Then in Now, Cor Sleutel

Following a preliminary softening up by Artillery Tank destroyers and the Ninth Air Force Dive Bombers, infantrymen advance into aachen from the Bahnhof Rothe Erde.
Then image: ?
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel

US infantrymen manning a barricade and scanning for enemy activity in Aachen, Germany, Goerderlerstrasse.
Then image: US Army
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Refugees on the run in the city of Aachen in 1944, during the battle of the city.
Then image: US-Signal Corps / Deutsches Bundesarchiv , Bild 183-H26814
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel

US soldiers of the 26th Infantry Regiment waiting for orders during street fighting in Aachen, Germany. October 1944.
Then image: ?
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel & Grace Kailuhu

Machine gunners firing from a bomb crater in a street of the besieged Aachen in October 1944.
Then image:  US Signal Corps /  17895
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Allied tanks at the Adalbertsteinweg going to the city center of Aachen during the battle for the city in 1944.
Then image: US Signal Corps / 17964
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel

American Soldiers at the Kaiser Friedrich III statue on the Kaiserplatz
The angle is not perfect but I think the statue maybe changed position.
Then image: ?
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After some study I found out this photo was taken before the Gelbe Kaserne in Aachen. The Gelbe Kaserne is not there anymore but was located at the corner of the Düppelstraße / Elsasstraße. These german soldiers surrender at the Düppelstraße.
It would not surprise me if the trees still the same as in the old photo.
Then image: Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel