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03-08-2011 04:54 PM
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Re: Help to ID People and Places in Austria Photos
I can't be of much help, but photograph # 9 has the huge ferris wheel of the Vienna Prater in the background.
Furthermore, I think that photograph # 4 is not in Austria at all, but rather shows a Czech location: Note the shop signs with "JOZEF [...]" and "[...] PRADLO".
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Re: Help to ID People and Places in Austria Photos
Thank you so much...every little bit of info helps. richard
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Re: Help to ID People and Places in Austria Photos
I found the location of the church in picture no. 4! Turned out, though, I was not 100% correct - It's not a Czech location, but a Slovak one: It's the church at Žilina.
Please see here for comparison:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lina_gross.jpg
http://www.visitslovakia.com/data/us...lina_1x(1).jpg
http://oberonrotary.files.wordpress..../07/zilina.jpg
The clue was the clothing shop sign in the background saying "KLOBUKY A PRADLO". I consulted with a Czech speaker (to be more precise, my father, who was born in Czechoslovakia) who pointed out that "Klobuky" (= hats) is the Slovak spelling, while "Klobouky" is the Czech one. Doing a Google image search for Slovak churches, I managed to identify the place.
Last edited by HPL2008; 03-09-2011 at 08:36 PM.
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Re: Help to ID People and Places in Austria Photos
WOW!!! That is amazing!!! And you are as well. I really appreciate the time you have taken to help unravel the story of these pictures. This board and the people who spend time here are my number one source for anything WW2 related. Thank you so much once again, richard
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Re: Help to ID People and Places in Austria Photos
You're welcome! I can offer one final observation that might be helpful, too:
With three locations (Vienna, Marchegg and Žilina) identified, I took a closer look to their relative locations. I found that there is a railway line running from Vienna into Slovakia, with Marchegg being the Austrian-Slovak border crossing. (Notice that some of the men in photograph # 5 wear customs unifoms.) Žilina is located a good deal deeper into Slovakia.
Given the presence of these three locations, the fact that the Vienna and Marchegg photographs were taken at railway stations/-installations and that the castle photograph was apparently taken from a train, I think we can make an educated guess that the men from this Luftwaffe unit were transported by rail from Vienna via Marchegg into Slovakia.
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