My Hometown...

Klaus · #1 (**permalink**) October 24th, 2006, 04:37 AM

This is probably of no interest to anybody, but I'll post it anyway.

This is the center of my hometown as it is now...
dornbkirch.jpg

...and as it was two days after the Anschluss.
dornbirn_maerz1938-_ansch.jpg

You can't imagine how hard it is to get pictures of my hometown from that time... It is not a very popular topic... What a surprise...

Tom Houlihan · #2 (**permalink**) October 24th, 2006, 07:55 AM

As much as I love a good military parade (and the Germans do those pretty damn well!), the town looks somewhat happier these days!

By all means, Klaus, if you can find more photos like that, post them. Then and Now shots are always interesting!

Danke!

Jim O · #3 (**permalink**) October 24th, 2006, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Houlihan

As much as I love a good military parade (and the Germans do those pretty damn well!), the town looks somewhat happier these days!

By all means, Klaus, if you can find more photos like that, post them. Then and Now shots are always interesting!

Danke!

I agree. I love a good parade, especially a military one. And then and now photos are always interesting. I lived in a small town in Massachusetts (population ~2800) and they did a town photo on the occasion of the town's "birthday (maybe 400?). They had a similar one from 50 years earlier and the difference between color and black and white made the emotion of the photo much different.

Here's the recent photo in black and white.

dornbkirch-desat.jpg

Ingsoc · #4 (**permalink**) October 24th, 2006, 11:53 AM

Where do you live? and how much population was in your town at 1938 for the Germans to made a military parade?

temujin77 · #5 (**permalink**) October 24th, 2006, 05:02 PM

Klaus,

The two pics are extremely interesting when placed next to each other like that -- Thanks!

Klaus · #6 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2006, 03:54 AM

In 1938 Dornbirn had a estimated population of 25.000. The reason for the parade is that Dornbirn became Kreisleitung. Today we have about 44.840 people living in Dornbirn.

Someone else got now and then pictures? I'll try to find some other...

Jim O · #7 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2006, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Klaus

Someone else got now and then pictures?

There are quite a few at Third Reich in Ruins.

Klaus · #8 (**permalink**) October 30th, 2006, 05:22 AM

That's a good site. Some places a quite close to my Hometown. But has someone got some pictures from his/her Hometown?

Helmut Von Moltke · #9 (**permalink**) November 1st, 2006, 07:58 AM

Speaking of military parades, one ought to watch the footage of Hitler's birthday parade on April 20 1939. 60000 Landsers goose-stepping in those Waffenfrocks, dozens of Panzers and planes.. well, some members here are too late to view it for free unfortunately, as the place to download it from has shut down.

K

Klaus · #10 (**permalink**) February 2nd, 2007, 05:51 AM

I am bringing this topic up again, because I am interested in your pictures from your homtetown during that period. So let's see some fine pics...