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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…
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British third raid on Berlin
2022-04-03 14:56:00 UTC‘Two nights later we returned to Berlin… …to be met by numerous searchlights and well directed and intensive flak. The raids must have destroyed the myth of German invincibility, thus causing considerable anger to Hitler and Goering who had boasted that such raids would never happen.’ – Squadron Leader Andrew…