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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. Wittenbergplatz’s back to life

    2024-09-29 16:28:44 UTC

    Berlin, Sommer 1945 Photo: US NARA. In this original colour footage we can see the bombed out and ruined U-Bhf Wittenbergplatz’s entrance hall and its original yellow mustard interior walls (built in 1912), following the end of the war and the reactivation of part of the underground train service in…

  3. Wittenbergplatz post-1945

    2023-02-26 16:17:00 UTC

    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…

  4. Wittenbergplatz im Krieg

    2022-11-18 16:30:15 UTC

    ‘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…

  5. Crashed at Wittenbergplatz, Berlin

    2022-10-18 18:17:00 UTC

    ‘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…

  6. Innsbrucker Platz

    2021-10-13 19:07:00 UTC

    Der „Tiroler“ Platz [An aerial view of Berlin-Schöneberg district with Hauptstraße running at centre, seen from the railway at Innsbrucker Platz in 1930. The original Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche and its distinctive rounded tower is at top centre.]  Photo: friedenau-aktuell.de The Innsbrucker Platz in Berlin was the post-war location of our previous post…

  7. Die Amis arrive!

    2021-09-16 13:26:00 UTC

    Photo by James Jarche/Paul Popper/Popperfoto. Berlin, 1945 Nach Kriegsende: an American Sherman tank is parked in front of a S-Bahn station with a shattered apartment building and a destroyed tram stop background. Next to it, the tank’s crew stand in a relaxed pose and a few metres away a…

  8. 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,…

  9. 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…
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