VE Day Scenes - The right of the image shows a man perched on a sign, projecting from a lamp post, in Coventry Street. Beneath the man there is a sign directing drivers to The Nuffield Centre for Forces. The lower section of the post is the support for traffic lights. In the left background, a hoarding for the Hollywood Canteen is partially visible. From up a tree to behind 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
VE Day Scenes - The right of the image shows a man perched on a sign, projecting from a lamp post, in Coventry Street. Beneath the man there is a sign directing drivers to The Nuffield Centre for Forces. The lower section of the post is the support for traffic lights. In the left background, a hoarding for the Hollywood Canteen is partially visible. From up a tree to behind 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 '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 '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 image was taken by Walter Lassally on 8th May 1945, VE-Day, Lassally, Walter
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