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  1. Bombenschäden August 1940 - 2024

    2024-08-29 08:26:00 UTC

    ‘Berlin night raid lasts for 3 hours… …British bomb populous section of the city - other damage also reported.’ – The New York Times, Thursday, August 29, 1940 – Photo: Archiv Sobotta/ AKG-images (5438572) Last night 84th years ago (28/29 August 1940), Berlin tasted the bloody and…

  2. August summary - The early days

    2023-01-09 13:54:00 UTC

    ‘In case there is an attack on the centre of Government in London, it seems very important to return the compliment the next day upon in Berlin. I understand you will have by the end of this month a respectable party of Stirlings ready. Perhaps the nights are not…

  3. Einmannbunker at Tempelhof

    2022-05-24 15:41:00 UTC

    Tempelhof’s BWSWe were ‘revisiting’ some colour footage taken in the Flughafen Tempelhof area some minutes after a 1944 air raid when we noticed, just before the end of the video, a clear example of a BWS (Brandwachenstände) or ‘einmann bunker’ in Berlin (see our previous post about…

  4. Heart of Berlin Bombed

    2022-04-28 15:18:00 UTC

    ‘British Bombs set Big Fires in Berlin. Nazis Blast London’  – New York Journal-American, Saturday, 31 August, 1940 – Photo by UMBO/ ullstein bild. On the night of August 30/31, 1940, the air alarm sirens and the anti-aircraft bursts woke up Berliners from their sleep again, who hurried…

  5. Bomben auf die Kottbusser Straße

    2021-11-30 11:51:00 UTC

    The photogallery we shared here show the damage inflicted by RAF Bomber Command air raid on the night of 28/29 August 1940 on Berlin, all captured in the Kottbusser Tor area within Berlin-Kreuzberg district. These pictures were taken on the following days of this second bombing, an air attack which…

  6. Einmann Bunker

    2021-08-05 15:41:00 UTC

    Time 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,…

  7. Britische Luftangriffe über Berlin

    2021-05-14 15:59:00 UTC

    ‘Ten killed in Berlin raid’. ‘Berlin gets a taste of bombs… …British bombers took a toll of ten killed and about thirty wounded in a workers’ section less than two miles from the Government offices in Wilhelmstraße. All the casualties were civilians. Preliminary reports gave no word of death or…
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