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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…
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Hot Time in the town of Berlin
2021-10-28 19:06:00 UTCWAC’s Flak Fortresses
Photo: LIFE ©Time Inc_641268. During his visit to Berlin in July 1945, American photographer William Vandivert (1912-1989) took hundreds of pictures of the ruined Nazi-capital. Some of those were starred by a trio of US WACs (Women’s Army Corps) while on tour of the city (a few…
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Pergamonmuseum in Berlin
2021-03-31 14:59:00 UTCTelephos and the Großdeutschland myth
Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Zentralarchiv; CC NC-BY-SA If there is a museum of the many that Berlin has that dazzles all its visitors and it is unique in transferring the modern visitor to the Ancient world and mythology, that is Pergamon. From…
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Feuer!
2018-04-23 19:53:04 UTCFire, as Bomber Command well knew, was the biggest destroyer of property
On 23 September 1941, Britain’s Air Staff produced a report detailing the effectiveness of German incendiary attacks on Britain and recommending that fire be a central feature of Bomber Command attacks. The key lesson to be…