VE Day Scenes – Eine Straßenszene. Eine Gruppe von Personen im Hintergrund des Bildes blickt auf die Kamera. Zwischen den Gebäuden sind Bunte und Flaggen der alliierten Nationen aufgereiht. Von einem Baum bis hinter die Kamera. Das Bild zeigt eine dichte Menschenmenge, die sich am 8. Mai 1945 - VE-Day vor den Toren des Buckingham Palace versammelt hat. Das Foto wurde von Walter Lassally aufgenommen, einem jungen Mann, der sechs Jahre zuvor als Flüchtling in Großbritannien angekommen war. Jahre später erklärte Walter, dass er als Kind in Berlin von einer Parade erzählt wurde, die eine riesige Menschenmenge versammelt hatte, um zu sehen. Walter

• Bildanbieter: piemags/ww2archive / Alamy Stock Foto
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VE Day Scenes - A street scene. A group of people in the background of the image are looking towards the camera. Bunting and flags of the Allied nations are strung between the buildings. From up a tree to behind the camera.The image shows a dense crowd of people, gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, on the 8th May, 1945 - VE-Day. The photograph was taken by Walter Lassally, a young man who had arrived in Britain, as a refugee six years earlier. Years later, Walter explained that as a child, growing up Berlin, he was told of a parade that a vast crowd had assembled to watch. Walter asked a man to assist him in climbing a tree, to obtain a good vantage point. At the head of the parade was Adolf Hitler. As Walter observed, at that young age he had no hint the peril his family would be placed in.Walter's father Artur, was a noted maker of industrial training films, but was forbidden to practice his profession by the Nazi Berufsverbot. The Nazi racial classification termed Artur Lassally as "Non-Aryan", because of his Jewish ancestry. In 1938, Artur Lassally was arrested and placed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp - concomitant with the Nazi regime's policy of cajoling those which it had categorised as undesirable within the Third Reich, into emigration.Walter's mother Adele, purchased an entry visa from the Peruvian Embassy and also obtained transit visas for Britain, to facilitate their travel. The Lassally family arrived in Britain at the end of June 1939. Walter recounted in an interview that the family's belongings had been packed into containers, which were awaiting shipment from the dockside in Bremerhaven. This was taken by Walter Lassally on 8th May 1945, VE-Day, Lassally, Walter