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  1. The »Tunnelhaus« at Dennewitzplatz

    2025-04-06 20:17:00 UTC

    »Dass die Tassen im Schrank wackeln und der Tisch wegspringt« …sei »alles gesponnen!« – Kreuzberger Chronik, April 2016 – Photo: © BVG-Archiv One of the most curious and eye-catching pictures from old Berlin is the one that shows an elevated train running through a “hole” in the middle of a…

  2. Der Hansaplatz-Bezirk

    2022-03-14 15:31:00 UTC

    [Severe devastation can be seen in this aerial picture of the northern Tiergarten and Hansaviertel district after the war, taken in winter 1945.] Photo: Senatsverwaltung für Bau- und Wohnungswesen Berlin Luftbildstelle. Located in the northwestern Tiergarten, the Hansaviertel was built from the intersection of three main streets in a star-shaped…

  3. Luftangriffe auf Pergamon

    2021-10-08 18:19:00 UTC

    Photo: ©Zentralarchiv/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (ZA 1.1.6./04906). During the research work about Berlin city, its streets and its inhabitants during the war and the air bombings, it is quite common to come across photos that show the ruined state and the damage caused by the war, most of them taken…

  4. Pergamonmuseum in Berlin

    2021-03-31 14:59:00 UTC

    Telephos and the Großdeutschland myth Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Zentralarchiv; CC NC-BY-SA If there is a museum of the many that Berlin has that dazzles all its visitors and it is unique in transferring the modern visitor to the Ancient world and mythology, that is Pergamon. From…

  5. Berlin unter Bomben • Steglitz

    2019-10-28 19:46:00 UTC

    ‘steht nichts’ [Photo: Trustees of the IWM / Tony Redding. Life and Death in Bomber Command. Fonthill Media, 2013.] [Berlin 1/2 March 1943: this night oblique taken by an RAF bomber during the raid shows smoke drifting from fires in the Steglitz area (A) and a concentration of fires around…

  6. Bombensturm! (Part II)

    2018-05-03 12:37:00 UTC

    The Incendiary Bombs [Haus Vaterland (“Fatherland House”) burns following a night raid on 22/23 November 1943 by British RAF bombers. The building was a pleasure palace on the southwest side of Potsdamer Platz. At left, a S-Bahn signal post.] Photo: Ullstein bild / Archiv Golejewski Incendiaries (IB), usually…

  7. Flakscheinwerfer

    2017-06-07 16:32:33 UTC

    At night, Berlin first system defence was based mainly in the use of anti-aircraft searchlights (Flakscheinwerfer). Hundreds of them were positioned around- and in the city, and their task were to find and track enemy bombers, showing them to the anti-aircraft batteries at night [A German Flakscheinwerfer in…
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