Mounted German soldiers parade from the Arc de Triomphe onto Avenue Foch in Paris. Image by Halley Docherty
Continuing its run of past-meets-present photography experiments, The Guardian’s latest in its Google Street View series juxtaposes images of World War II with modern day scenes.
Once again compiled by the paper’s Google Street View specialist Halley Docherty, the photographs show Nazi troops invading Paris, a London train station air raid shelter in ruins during the Blitz, and scenes of devastation in Hiroshima caused by the atomic bomb during the Second World War.
Travel back in time with the images below and view the entire collection here.
The Balham station was partially destroyed by a bomb on 14 October, 1940, during the London Blitz. Image by Halley Docherty
The bridge connecting two sections of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, pictured in the first half of 1942, a year before the Warsaw uprising. Image by Halley Docherty
Crowds watch the D-Day newsline ticker at Times Square, New York City, on 6 June 1942. Image by Halley Docherty
A German civilian gazes at a poster of Soviet leader Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden, Berlin, on 3 June 1945. Image by Halley Docherty
Russian soldiers rally at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945. Image by Halley Docherty
A man surveys the wreckage left by the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. The ruins of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (pictured), one of the few buildings to remain standing, are now part of the Peace Memorial Park. Image by Halley Docherty
[via The Guardian, images by Halley Docherty for The Guardian]