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  1. Wittenbergplatz post-1945

    26 Feb 2023

    Year Zero: the sea of rubble and ruins that Tauentzienstr. has become by war’s end, seen from Wittenbergplatz with the heavily damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the far background. Photo by Walter Gircke/ullstein bild. At the end of the Second World War in Europe in May 1945, Berlin became…

  2. Wittenbergplatz im Krieg

    18 Nov 2022

    ‘Crashed at Wittenbergplatz, Berlin’ Photo: akg-images (AKG55275). Located between Nollendorfplatz and Auguste Viktoria Platz (today’s Breitscheidplatz), Wittenbergplatz is one of the best known plazas of the city of Berlin. It was laid out between 1889 and 1892 in the course of urban development in the western suburbs of…

  3. Crashed at Wittenbergplatz, Berlin

    18 Oct 2022

    ‘Tonight you are going to the Big City.  …You will have the opportunity to light a fire in the belly of the enemy that will burn his black heart out’– Sir Arthur Harris, Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command – Photo: Wings Aviation Museum. At around 03:20 hrs, amongst a…
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