Travelling Across Europe on the Eve of World War 2
Incredible photos taken by a group of English cycling enthusiasts as they cycled across Europe in 1938. Starting in Munich in Germany they worked their way across Austria and into northern Italy. I have no idea who these young men were. They’re names have been lost. I don’t know if they survived the war. But these are the photos that they took on their European adventure.
Places they visited included Munich and Berchtesgaden in Germany; Seisenbergklamm, Heiligenblut, Dolsach and Leinz in Austria; Vipiteno, Bruneck and Misurina in Italy. Or at least those are the ones I can identify.
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Parts of Gaza also looked quite idyllic before their ruling party, enthusiastically cheered on by the local populace, began a campaign of the barbaric massacre of their neighbours. The resultant WW2 response causing the enemy to suffer large scale destruction and "disproportionately" heavy civilian casualties, incuding some who could perhaps be described as "innocent", was very regrettable but also a wholly inevitable consequence of their initial aggression. The same is true in Gaza. The Allied policy in WW2 was to continue fighting until they received "unconditional surrender" from the enemy. The same is true in Gaza.
great vid
More interesting for example Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillard car trip in 1939/40.
The 2 ladies left Geneva in February 1939, drove with a normal car (a small Ford convertible) to Kabul – no other traveler, no weapon.
Both wrote a book on that trip, Schwarzenbach in german, Maillard in french.
that album is priceless
Beautiful. I assume it's the summer of 1938. No Nazi flags anywhere in the small towns. Fortunately my mother and her family fled Austria between September 1937 and February 1938.
Sadly most of the cities were more beautiful than today. London Berlin Milan Frankfurt and so many more. The old beautiful architecture that made Europe amazing. Not the modern buildings. Sad these wars we let our elites and the ones that controlled them made us go to war. Most people did get along well.