Amsterdam. Zaanstraat near the H. Maria Magdalena church. Under the leadership of Captain J. Breman, the 2nd Engineer Company in Amsterdam has begun repair work of very far-reaching scope. Its task is to remove all traffic obstructions in the city of Amsterdam as quickly as possible, including clearance work in the harbor. The work also consists of clearing roadblocks created by the Germans, closing gaps in the road surface caused by wooden blocks, pumping out flooded cellars, etc. Traffic obstructions , so-called asparagus, which had been placed by Germans in various places in Amsterdam and which posed a serious danger, especially in the evening, words cleared by the 2nd Engineer Company, June 1945, liberation, church buildings, wheelbarrows, soldiers, neo-gothic, roadblocks, roads, The Netherlands, 20th century press agency photo, news to remember, documentary, historic photography 1945-1990, visual stories, human history of the Twentieth Century, capturing moments in time
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