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The Marks of War
2024-09-11 19:42:00 UTC‘Miss U.S. Embassy, Hit Brandenburg Gate… …Germans Say.’ – The New York Times, Wednesday, September 11, 1940 –
Photo: Süddeutsche Zeitung. On September 10/11, 1940 (OTD 84 years ago last night), RAF fliers raided the centre of Berlin again. First air-alarms sounded starting at 23.54 hrs[1] with searchlights and…
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‘Cookie’ delivery to Berlin
2019-03-11 17:17:00 UTC26 million of German people lost their homes during the war, just in Berlin 600,000 apartments were destroyed, half of all houses were damaged and around a third uninhabitable, as much as 16 km² of the city was simply rubble. When the war came to an end in May 1945…
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Fliegerbombe am Berliner Hauptbahnhof!
2018-05-13 15:06:15 UTCThis is a British 1000-pounder (500 kg) MC bomb from 1944 today at Berlin Mitte. Thousands of people around Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof (the main railway station in the city) were evacuated last week to allow disposal experts to defuse an unexploded World War II explosive dropped by Bomber Command and unearthed…
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Bombensturm! (Part II)
2018-05-03 12:37:00 UTCThe Incendiary Bombs [Haus Vaterland (“Fatherland House”) burns following a night raid on 22/23 November 1943 by British RAF bombers. The building was a pleasure palace on the southwest side of Potsdamer Platz. At left, a S-Bahn signal post.]
Photo: Ullstein bild / Archiv Golejewski Incendiaries (IB), usually…
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Bombensturm!
2018-03-18 20:20:39 UTCWhen British Bomber Command went to war in 1939 it found itself equipped with a very limited and inadequate arsenal of bombs. General Purpose GP Bombs:The high explosive GP (general purpose) bombs, developed from 1935, were the initial arsenal Bomber Command had to carry destruction to Third Reich soil…