Reinhardtstraße Berlin photo

[Mannheim]

I am trying to match up a famous photo taken in Berlin in 1945. The photo I am after is taken slightly after the more famous one (see below) and the armoured car can be seen further down the street at the intersection - unless I'm mistaken - of Reinhardtstraße and Friedrichstraße. I have seen the photo on this site but cannot find it again.

[nobodyofnote]

This is the same Nordland vehicle (339) of Swedish SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans-Gösta Pehrsson, viewed from behind. To the left you can see a brickwork façade, with a sign with the words EIS (?):

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The same vehicle later during the surrender:

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[Mannheim]

Thanks nobodyofnote. The second one is the one I was looking for. I spent a few days in Berlin last year photographing all the likely spots in Friedrichstraße and Chausseestraße and am still not sure I've got it right.

[nobodyofnote]

Thanks nobodyofnote. The second one is the one I was looking for. I spent a few days in Berlin last year photographing all the likely spots in Friedrichstrasse and Chausseestrasse and am still not sure I've got it right.

Lennart Westberg in Die schwedischen Freiwilligen der Waffen-SS lists the address as Friedrichstraße 107.

[Mannheim]

I'm pretty sure that's as close as I could figure to Friedrichstrasse 107. There is yet another photo somewhere of a bunch of civilians filing past the building on the corner, past a corpse who could well have been a victim of that encounter.

[Cor]

Both pictures were also in the book battle of berlin then and now, but there wasn't a comparison shot because it was to difficult to find the same angle of the shot, because the whole surroundings are changed nowadays.

But with the confirmation of nobodyofnote you must be pretty close.

[AndréN]

This is definitely Friedrichstrasse 107 .
This picture taken prior WW1 helps to recognize the building which was a caserne .

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I positionned as well the destroyed vehicle on this Straube plan .(little rectangle in red colour) .

Hope this helps

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[history1]

[...]To the left you can see a brickwork façade, with a sign with the words EIS (?)
[...]

Eis means just "ice".

[Mannheim]

I think my photographs pretty much match up with where AndreN has indicated his red rectangle. Could anybody currently in Berlin tell me if the area indicated on AndreN's Straube plan, i.e the building beside the red rectangle, is now the Friedrichstadt Palast?

[Red star]

I positionned as well the destroyed vehicle on this Straube plan .(little rectangle in red colour) .

Photo of seat noted by you.

[Cor]

thanks Redstar for posting this picture, i wa looking for this picture to show that this place is another place than the old photos placed in the beginning. And if this is adress 107 pointed out by AndreN than nobodyofnote is wrong.

[nobodyofnote]

And if this is adress 107 pointed out by AndreN than nobodyofnote is wrong.

I never said it was 107. Read what I quoted: "Lennart Westberg in Die schwedischen Freiwilligen der Waffen-SS lists the address as Friedrichstraße 107." Westberg said it. I did not.

[Red star]

thanks Redstar for posting this picture, i wa looking for this picture to show that this place is another place than the old photos placed in the beginning. And if this is adress 107 pointed out by AndreN than nobodyofnote is wrong.

Still a photo street Friedrichstrasse,the train station is in distance visible.
Can be useful

[Cor]

And if this is adress 107 pointed out by AndreN than nobodyofnote is wrong.

I never said it was 107. Read what I quoted: "Lennart Westberg in Die schwedischen Freiwilligen der Waffen-SS lists the address as Friedrichstraße 107." Westberg said it. I did not.

Sorry men i meant that.

[Vienna]

Hi!

You see it under Ron Klages Panzers - Then and now photographs - S 7
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 7&start=90

Regards
Vienna

For Mannheim: it's not the Friedrichstadtpalast - Adress 107 is correct - but across the Weidendammer Brücke (bridge) on the right side; Nr. 101-102 it's the old and new Admiralspalast (Metropol), Nr. 103 is a Hotel. Wonderful photos you ca see under
http://architekturmuseum.ub.tu-berlin.d ... %2C+Berlin