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Ghosts Of History: Chilling Images Merge Modern Day Life With Photographs of World War II

Oct. 20, 2012 2:03pm Mike Opelka

Jo Teeuwisse is a history consultant who takes her work home with her. The Amsterdam historian layers modern day images with photos taken decades ago.

According a loose translation of the Dutch version of her Facebook profile:

Miss Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse is an old-fashioned lady in a modern time. Thanks to her passion for the past, she has converted into a 1930s lifestyle. She dressed and lives day in and day out she if someone from before the war. (WWII)

The idea for the project came to Teeuwisse after she found some old negatives at a flea market. The photos were of the town where she lives, but they were taken decades earlier. Ever the historian, she began researching the locations and decided to merge past with present and highlight the contrast between a war-torn world and the rebuilt one.

That project inspired more historical photo merges: After identifying locations in the old photographs, Teeuwisse would take a new picture in the exact same spot and meld the past together with the present.

The process is not complicated, but the impact can be significant. Here are a few examples of her work:

Visit Teeuwisse’s Flickr site for more photos available for viewing and purchase.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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Terry1242
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:06am
These are not unique. There are many more (including US ones) on the site The Retronaut (which is a great site in general).

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- Gumbercules
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 4:55pm
  Agreed; these look like crap! LSU would have done a better job photoshopping. . .
  
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christos
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:59pm
tolerance – Never said all Germans are Evil.

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auntmoxie.com
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:37pm
Makes you wonder what photos 70 years from now will look like when superimposed over Occupy Wall Street rallies …

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Pro-Palin
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:36pm
amazing and haunting

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atlaspooped
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:58pm
Oh, my word. Spreading hate about the Germans is so ridiculous. They are one of our best allies, and truly the last tent pole of fiscal responsibility in Europe (as fiscal responsibility in Europe goes). This is why all the other retarded countries are trying to force them to bail the Euro-zone. Don’t bash class warfare and then hate on Germany.

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christos
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:07pm
The entire Country Germany needs to be given to the Holocaust Survivors & their families,,,,besides Glenn Beck how many Germans do you know who are not Evil what .5%,,,they believe they are Aryans the “Superior Race” they stem from Syrians who +JESUS+GOD+ created to keep the Jewish in step many moons ago,,,,Germans are Arrogant,Mean & Evil….

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- christos
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:10pm
  Germany is Gomar,,,Germany’s Motherland is Russia,,,EVIL.
  
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- tolerence
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 5:33pm
  not all germains are evil! how do YOU feel about all muslims
  
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- VoteBushIn12
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 5:55pm
  Hahahaha, no way is this a real post!
  
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- Jayms
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:55pm
  If you think this is weird, you should read Christos’s other posts. English is not his/ her first language, that’s for sure.
  
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- remnantofthe-D
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:55pm
  That is Ridiculous! The German people are not evil at all! They had one evil man who lied and hid his disturbing ideas from them. They only learned the truth after the evil started and were then helpless to stop him!
  My father’s family was from Germany, and every last one of them were kind, decent Christians! They came to our country USA to escape from the evil in their homeland!
  
  The people of Germany are kind, they love Americans and they support us, whenever they are asked. Something else you need to know: FACT: In Germany no building can be taller than the highest steeple in the town – GOD is first there – something American is in dire need of today!
  
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- christos
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:58pm
  remnantofthed – Oh sure +JESUS+GOD+ are there what after they attempted to destroy all of +JESUS+GODS+ chosen people sure,,,,you say they where deceived no they where broke & there where tons of Germans who knew what was going on including Churches,,never said all Germans where Evil I left out .5% my not be,,,,they actually believe they are a “Superior Race,Master Race,Aryans” I know 1,000′s of Germans & they are all Arrogant & kind to your face & evil behind your back,,,they do not like Jewish people I could care less about how many Churches Germany has & the style in which they build them,,,+JESUS+GOD+ live in a Heart not a Building.TA
  
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- christos
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:29pm
  remnantofthe-day- Cowards run from Evil,Courage runs toward Evil with the Armor of +JESUS+GOD+ when Evil knocks at the door send Faith to answer it.
  
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Sargint Rock
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:12pm
“I see dead people!”. Wow! A medium’s view of life that we can all understand graphically. Haunting and chilling and a subtle reminder of the blood shed to protect our cozy lives!

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Larry E
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:00pm
Oh Wango you are just too much. Too bad that you’re a typical progresso-commie who thinks that you’re hot stuff, but really aren’t even luke warm. It must be great though believing that you’re so much smarter than everyone else except maybe Glorious Leader. Go back to your mommy’s basement and put on some clean undies because I’m sure that you’ve soiled the set you were wearing.

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Pro-Palin
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 1:05pm
very nice work

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- pavepaws
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 2:00pm
  I see a book in her future.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 2:35pm
  Great detective work and great way to remember those guys that helped keep Europe free, until politically correct socialism/communism took over right after WWII.
  
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kettererbg
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:52am
WANGO, take your left wing, libertard, dumbocratic bellicose diatribe to another site more suitable. Like MSNBC or CNN.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:06pm
  @KETTERERBG
  it is one of the paid trolls on here, unfortunately. Just ignore the idiot, it is only trying to incite a reaction, because that’s what it gets paid to do. I don’t know if it gets paid for every post directed at it, but I am not going to help it.
  SWAMP_DONKEY is another.
  
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- nick7
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:48pm
  I’ve read statements by WANGO which seemed most reasonable and sane. Others such as the one below are carbon copy of BO supporting democrats. These always seem accusing and damning without explanation or substance and, certaining without any degree of proof. People who express such dual statements of belief are generally considered, to some degree, mentally ill. All such folks, please reach a firm decision. You’ll help yourself.
  
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kettererbg
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:46am
Very well done. The sad thing is the next time we go over to liberate the Europeans, we will be fighting nazi muslims.

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GlennaBeckski
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:35am
What untruth was told? I have been watching this info on another site and the information is there for all to see.

Why is it you prefer not to see?? Hmmmm

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jrc99
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 5:57am
That is WAY beyond cool! Well done and God Bless!

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- Small_Craft
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:41am
  Very well done and entertaining in a historic way. Google “damon koch small craft advisory” to read political commentary.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:30am
  Someone once told me that we can tell the soldiers who were really doing the fighting, because they are the dead ones.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:33am
  It makes sense because if you think about it they used to give life expectancy (in seconds) in combat for certain jobs. Or another way of looking at it, the German’s put priority on taking out the snipers who were the best shots.
  
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ACHILES205
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:35pm
DEMSRTRAITORS thank you for telling the truth God blees you

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- ACHILES205
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:44pm
  God Bless
  
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SilentReader
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:07pm
What a great way to bring history into the present!

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- Wango
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:05am
  Yes, just like Romney – the worst of our American past made real . . .today!
  
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DisposableWorker
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 4:52pm
Thank you Miss Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse. My father and his generation would appreciate the rememberance. These men taught us what it meant to stand for your beliefs; even if it meant horrible consequences. In Dads eyes, no adult person had the right to take from another what they would not give willingly. What he and his generation saw in that war was the ultimate Taxation of individuals in the name of a “better world”. He carried visions of that war with him to the end of his days.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 3:11pm
Too bad modern day politicians aren’t more like politicians from that era,back then they allowed their military to defeat their enemies.

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- Thevoice
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 4:42pm
  Exactly ..
  
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- Konservative PUNK
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 5:56pm
  Absolutely agreed. There was a time when WINNING the war was the objective. I would argue that Japan and Germany are both better nations today because they LOST the war.
  
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- demsrtraitors
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:14pm
  and back then when America was Great, pedophiles. socialists,and gays were shamed in public .Unlike today . In modern times our govt puts people in prison for NOT accepting them.
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:54pm
  Right on – although I don’t agree that socialists and gays should be shamed in public.
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:21pm
  Okay, maybe socialists but not gays.
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:18pm
  “pedophiles. socialists,and gays “?
  
  You mean Marxists, liberals and leftists, or modern day democrats?
  
  Boy, have the times changed…
  
  Gays should be put to shame, that is, if they spout and shout their perverted lifestyle for the purpose of forcefully making the public accept them.
  
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U.N.hater
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:57pm
To all you dumb a$$ liberals. Thank You very much.http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/19/new_poll_egyptians_turning_toward_iran_want_nuclear_weapons?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foreignpolicy%2Fthecable+%28The+Cable%29

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- kfalcon77
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 3:38pm
  thats just great :(
  
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- pwatkins
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 1:44am
  Scary…thanks for the article. We have to vote Obama out and get H. Clinton a new job…like housewife maybe.
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:10pm
  PWATKINS
  
  How about hillary use her own money and go to the nearest ‘red light’ district and pass out condoms, contraceptives, & hypodermic needles to the needy. I certainly cannot imagine ole billy-boy wanting to be within the same four walls as her.
  
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- RicardoPinetree
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:43am
  Hahaha @U.N.Hater your neoconservatism is always pure comedic gold to true American Patriots. Guess what other country is now Iran’s biggest ally in the middle east? I’ll give you a hint, we spent billions of borrowed dollars, shed thousands of young American lives, and its capital is Baghdad. Guessed which country yet? That’s right it’s the Jumhūriyyat al-‘Irāq or Republic of Iraq. Today they are a Shi’ite democracy, and their democratically elected parliament has voluntarily decided to align themselves with Iran.
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/14/iraq-iran-ties_n_1664728.html
  
  So go ahead Neo-Cons start another war in the middle east. I’m curious who is going to fight in it? I’m 22 and most young men my age will never fight in these wars. We have too many older friends who came back from Iraq missing limbs, PTSD, foreclosed houses, and the VA dept. not giving two sh*** about their condition, under Bush and Obama. You warmongers want might want to wait until you’ve replaced all the flesh-and-blood troops with robotic drones, before starting a new war.
  
  ~AMERICAN PATRIOTS AGAINST IRAN WAR~
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:27pm
Shades of Akira Kurosawa’s “Dreams” (4th story in)….

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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:41pm
  4th story in the movie… and 4th photo of the 5 here.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:24pm
Bless the Dutch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p_2PxbBPyhc#!

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- Gary_K
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 4:46pm
  I would be more worried about Fukushima #4 sinking into the ground. Its leaning more and more every day and its cooling pool still has all the spent fuel rods in it.
  
  If it collapses we are all doomed.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 1:32pm
  Gary – The governments of the world are unable to cooperate even when a catastrophe is looming. How big will the disaster be? Will the radioactive storage just burn and be released into the atmosphere? Will the storage pool sink into the ground water and create an explosion of hydrogen and oxygen?
  
  The governments and the news organizations of the world would rather cover the “Big Bird” controversy than an ecological catastrophe that will contaminate the oceans and the atmosphere for generations. The radioactive material will circulate in the Pacific and the ash will drift over the US as it circles the globe.
  
  Where are the real leaders?
  
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GlennaBeckski
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:06pm
GONZO~~EVERYONE LOVES AND RESPECTS YOU~~PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS~~~

This is THE BIGGEST STORY IN THE U.S. AND IS NOT BEING REPORTED ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED TO COVER THIS UP!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfayGHr3PGo

I am BEGGING .. LITERALLY BEGGING SOMEONE TO WATCH THIS!!! IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!!

It’s Long….. 2 hours give or take .. BUT YOU WILL BE HOOKED 20 MIN IN I PROMISE!!! Start @ 8:00
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- CatB
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:26pm
  Interesting .. since I live just miles from the Gulf in Southwest Florida.
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:43pm
  CATB~~MUST READ FOR YOU!! I’ve been following this for weeks…. EXTREMELY SERIOUS!!
  
  Here’s a shorter less thorough story by Jesse Ventura
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LHAh-eTUtY
  
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- CatB
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:55pm
  Finding the “algae” talk very interesting .. we have a small pond area near the harbor here that has a kind of bloom that they have never seen before … it will cost 1 million dollars plus to clean it up they say.
  
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- PaulreveresDarknight
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:54pm
  Beck Im with you buddy. I am telling Every person I see. God bless you Beck! I pray for you. ~Caleb
  
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- statutoryape
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:34am
  @GLennabeckski,
  
  I watched one of your 2-hour links that you insisted that everyone had to see. It took a tad bit of truth and then turned into a complete lie. I don’t blame you for getting sucked into the lie since dumb people are usually the most gullible ones to believe lies.
  
  Te olete liiga sügav peitub nii et ma ei usu, et on olemas võimalus, et sa mõtled teisiti. Eemale neid saite, sest nad kasutavad valesid, et kontrollida inimesi nagu sina.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:39am
  StatutoryApe, would you please expound your comment? Thanks!
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:19am
  GLENN . . . Sorry. GONZO isn’t here right now. He’s busy cooking up another pantload of true blue American patriotism. But as his mentor, advisor and sponsor here on The Blaze, I’m happy to advise you of the correct path forward.
  
  Clearly you are too informed, too insightful and yes too American to limit your shocking revelation to just one media hose. You need to take your story to the mountaintop. That’s right, the Sean Hannity Endless Loopathon, The Mark Levin Sticks and Stones Hour, the Tammy Bruce Talk Show and Carpeteria, El Rushbo’s Oxypalooza, and of course the Comfort Inn Suites at King’s Cross. Only by leveraging the proper channels will your story get out.
  
  And when you go, go armed. As you know, BP is a “British”company. As you also know the “British” have “accents” that they use to make Americans feel stupid. Don’t take my word for it, our dear brother Gonzo said so himself. And as you know, Gonzo knows what he knows. You know? No?
  
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