History of Sorts

The effects of  WWII were felt for years and even decades after the war ended. It can even be argued that the effects can even be noticed nowadays.

Below are some pictures of the Aftermath of WWII in Europe.

A German soldier returns home to Frankfurt am Main after the end of the War, 1946.

The photo of a German prisoner of war returning to his home town of Frankfurt to discover his house bombed and his family no longer there.

Three girls skate home from school, past blocks of houses destroyed by Allied air raids, Essen, Germany, February 14, 1949.

Three German girls skate home from school past blocks of houses destroyed by Allied air raids in Essen, Germany, Feb. 14, 1949. These kids can’t remember a time when their city didn’t look like that, because they weren’t old enough or even born when the city was still standing. For them, life had always been like that

A smiling prisoner of war returning home to Vienna passes a woman holding a photograph up in a mixture of hope and despair

The hunger-winter of 1947, thousands protest against the disastrous food situation (31 March 1947)

One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near “Omaha” Beach

In the streets of Brignoles, angry French citizens publicly rebuke a woman who is suspected of having collaborated with the Germans.

Dutch boys helping to rebuild Rotterdam, a city badky damaged by the Luftwaffe. . The photograph was taken November 5, 1945

Mar 3, 2017 – A huge bomb that was discovered at a construction site in North London

PIXELATED AT SOURCE Handout photo issued by the Ministry of Defence of a Second World War bomb which was discovered on a building site in Brent, north-west London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday March 2, 2017. A huge cordon is in place and roads have been closed after the unexploded device was found near Brondesbury Park in Brent, north-west London. The army has been called in to deal with the bomb while police and the fire service also remain on the scene, Brent Council said. See PA story POLICE Brondesbury. Photo credit should read: Rupert Frere/MoD/Crown Copyright/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Handout photo issued by the Ministry of Defence of the building site where a Second World War bomb was discovered in Brent, north-west London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday March 3, 2017. A huge cordon is in place and roads have been closed after the unexploded device was found near Brondesbury Park in Brent, north-west London. The army has been called in to deal with the bomb while police and the fire service also remain on the scene, Brent Council said. See PA story POLICE Brondesbury. Photo credit should read: Sgt Rupert Frere/MoD Crown Copyright/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.