Here are some of the pictures taken in Germany before WW2.
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Flying boat Dornier Do X. The picture was taken during its circuit above Germany in 1934. It could carry 168 passengers, a world record which was not beaten for twenty years.
Air ship Zeppelin in the sky above Frankfurt. The city was the main air base in Germany for the great airships before WW2.
The motorcycle before WW2.
At the Deutschen Eck (German corner at the river Rhine), Whitsun 1939.
The motorcycle with sidecar at this last Whitsun before WW2.
Frankfurt before the war.
A pre-war lorry in the yard of the brother of my grandmother at Büdesheim (near Hanau, Frankfurt).
At the farm.
At the village of Urspringen in the Rhön (Mountains east of Hanau).
WW2 has begun ! The grandfather of the author of this website was conscripted immediately.
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