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Wittenbergplatz’s back to life
2024-09-29 16:28:44 UTCBerlin, 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…
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Bombenschäden August 1940 - 2024
2024-08-29 08:26:00 UTC‘Berlin night raid lasts for 3 hours… …British bomb populous section of the city - other damage also reported.’ – The New York Times, Thursday, August 29, 1940 –
Photo: Archiv Sobotta/ AKG-images (5438572) Last night 84th years ago (28/29 August 1940), Berlin tasted the bloody and…
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Wittenbergplatz post-1945
2023-02-26 16:17:00 UTCYear 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…
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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…