Ghent-Sint-Pieters Railway Station, 1941. Flemish children return home after spending weeks or months with host families in Nazi Germany, taking part in local life and learning German – Colorized by Korneel Bostyn
Ghent-Sint-Pieters Railway Station, 1941. Flemish children return home after spending weeks or months with host families in Nazi Germany, taking part in local life and learning German – Colorized by Korneel Bostyn
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Scary picture, especially as I have just been rewatching Schindler’s List. The Nazis were still in control less than 80 years ago which is not that long ago.
Interesting picture, do you have more of these?
Didn’t know there were pictures of the first /r/belgium meetup
What I like most about this post is that it is such a clear picture of Nazis at a place that many people in this sub visit weekly and you can still recognize after 80 years.
It makes the distopian feel to the picture so much mire intense.
If you look closely you can see them starting to work on the constructions at platform 10-12.
Damn this really made me dive deep into the history of the Belgian/Flemish far right. Found some graves i need to pee on, Nazi pricks.
I met someone in Ghent who’s mom, who in that time worked at Ghent’s haven, had been shipped to Germany to forcibly work there in a factory. She had to stay in Germany for three years and she was 16 yo at the time. The lives people lived not so long ago where really dramatic.