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    Posted April 3, 2010 by
    donjuan666
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    Ubachsberg, Netherlands
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    Weekend assignment: Past and present

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    Past and Present: CROSSROADS 1940-2010

    By donjuan666  |  Posted April 3, 2010  |  Ubachsberg, Netherlands
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     donjuan666 tells us the story of his family, who stood out in front of their home in Ubachsberg, Netherlands, when the German army marched through the village in 1940. He had seen a documentary about a photo album found in a German flea market and saw the photo of his family members. He wrote to the publisher and received the original photo! "That the scene that was once taken over by foreign troops, just is a traffic junction today. People may go, yet buildings remain," he said.
    - zdan, CNN iReport producer

    I take you to the Kerkstraat (Church road) in the little village of Ubachsberg in the south of the Netherlands, near the German border.

     

    I carry with me, a war picture from May 1940, taken by a German officer who made a special photo album travelling all over Europe.

     

    A central spot is given to the characteristic white house of my grandparents, that has remained the same.

     

    The picture was handed to me by request by the renowned Dutch author and poet Remco Campert, who found the alledged photo album and made a documentary about it.

     

    He was happy to give it to me, and my grandparents, for good, and we are all very grateful for that to this day. :)

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