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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…
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