Ghosts of WWII

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis

http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/

Yea i probably somehow screwed up the links, but fuck it. After a 15 hour work day i'm not in the mood to deal with it.

Anyways. This guy overlaps old photos from the war with modern photos of the same location, and the result is, in my opinion, stunning. The rebuilding from World War II always fascinated me. I've been to normandy, and seen all the little villages that at one point were packed full of germans, then eventually americans/brits, and it always struck me as being strange to think of how the very same buildings/streets i'm on were bombed to hell, invaded, occupied, bombed again, then invaded again.

just thought some ns'ers who have an interest in history would like these...