Blog
Posts tagged with Hitler
-
Die Mauer muss weg
2024-11-09 10:23:00 UTCPhoto: © picture-alliance, Eventpress Today we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but November 9th, known by Germans as Schicksalstag (‘Day of Fate’), is much more than that happy event. For Germany in the 20th century and for the rest of Europe maybe ……
-
The First Raids On Berlin
2023-08-30 18:02:00 UTC‘Our numbers were small and there is no claim that much damage… resulted from our bombing but it’s very likely these raids had a consequential effect; triggering a most profound change of strategy by the enemy.’
Photo: 115 Squadron Association/ Scottish Saltire Aircrew Association. On the 83rd anniversary of…
-
Einmann Bunker
2021-08-05 15:41:00 UTCTime ago, during our research for one Berlin air raid, we found this picture. We have seen it before, but this time we noticed a small interesting detail that captured our attention.
Photo by Fritz Eschen. SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek. Taken after the war by Fritz Eschen in May 1946,…
-
Bombing raid on Berlin
2021-05-02 18:01:00 UTC‘Aircraft drawn from two R.A.F. squadrons made a special attack on an objective only four miles from the centre of Berlin early yesterday morning’. – Daily Herald, Friday, August, 30, 1940 –
Photo: © IWM CH 10246. As we have seen in previous posts, the first bombing on Berlin by…
-
Pergamonmuseum in Berlin
2021-03-31 14:59:00 UTCTelephos 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…
-
The last visit by a Mosquito
2020-04-23 19:48:00 UTCPhoto: © raf-pathfinders.com [An unidentified air- and groundcrew of RAF No 627 Squadron posing for the camera in front of a Mosquito wooden bomber in Britain. Note the mission bomb log painted on the nose of the aircraft.] This week marks the 75th anniversary of the last strategic air raid…
-
War!
2019-09-01 20:08:00 UTC• WAR! • Berliners in front of a radio store listen to news of the invasion of Poland by German forces on September 1, 1939. The capital lived its first experience in aerial warfare when an air siren sounded that evening, the first of many to come. It was a…
-
The Opera - Reconstruction and Death
2019-01-14 17:07:00 UTCWhen the Staatsoper den Linden was severely damaged by British bombs in April 1941, Hitler urgently ordered its reconstruction, as it was one of his favourite buildings from his fanatical devotion to Opera and Richard Wagner’s works [December 1942: Nazi-parade of a guard of honour at Unter den Linden on…