Miss
Teeuwisse says she began the project as a research tool, but now
continues it mostly because of her 'passion for history and fascination
with the subject.'
A selection of her photos created across Europe, from Rotterdam to Utrecht to Sicily are available to view online.
The emotional photos juxtapose wartorn paths piled high with rubble with newly painted signposts and tarmacked roads.
Pretty houses and fashionable shops have been built
where the dead once lay and German soldiers clashed with Allied troops.
In these poignant shots, however, we have a tiny window into that world.
Startling contrast: Dutch historian Jo Teeuwisse
finds pictures from archives and then researches their background,
before taking a picture in the same place now and elegantly interweaving
them
Dangerous crossing: Soldiers race up Avenue de
Paris in Cherbourg in 1944, speeding past the rubble and over modern-day
road markings
Vivid reality: The past and the present collide
as touches of colour appear on this emotive shot on rue Armand Levéel in
the French city of Cherbourg
Honouring the dead: Village behind the front
lines in Normandy celebrate Bastille Day for the first time in over four
years at a memorial that still stands today
Changing environment: German soldiers
surrendering beside the modern terraced houses , of the Rue des Fossés
Plissons in Domfront, Orne
Fear and fighting: The original image from 1944, before it was laid over a photo taken from the exact same spot today