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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…

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2. The RAF strikes the Opera

   2019-01-08 19:26:00 UTC

   9 / 10 APRIL 1941 On that night, Wednesday, RAF Bomber Command launched an operation against ‘the Big City’. The mixed attacking force comprised 80 bombers - 36 Wellingtons, 24 Hampdens, 17 Whitleys and 3 of the new Short Stirling heavy bomber. This was the first raid on…

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