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The ruins of Tannenberg pictured in 2012. Hitler stayed at the Führerhauptquartier Tannenberg from 28 June to 5 July 1940, following the Fall of France, using it as a base from which to tour the fortresses of the Maginot Line. [5] This is the only time it was known to have been used by Hitler. [4]
Delivery After Raid (1940). Delivery After Raid, also popularly known as The London Milkman, is a black and white photograph taken by Fred Morley on 9 October 1940. [1] The image shows a milkman making his delivery along a street with buildings destroyed by German bombers during the Blitz in Holborn, Central London.
War memorial and symbol of the destroyed city: the ruins of St. Christoph's Church, Mainz. The German city of Mainz was bombed in multiple air raids by the Allies during World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as the United States Army Air Forces. These led to numerous victims and heavy damage throughout the cityscape.
However, due to political circumstances in East Germany, the reconstruction came to a halt. The heap of ruins was conserved as a war memorial within the inner city of Dresden, as a direct counterpart to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by German bombing in 1940 and also serves as a war memorial in the United Kingdom.
German invasion of Norway: German heavy cruiser Blücher is sunk by gunfire and torpedoes from the Norwegian coastal fortress Oscarsborg in the Oslofjord. Of the 2,202 German crew and troops on board, some 830 died (at least 320 of them crewmen). Most either drowned or burnt to death in the flaming oil slick surrounding the wreck.
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1940 Henry Guttman Germany [s 2] Saint Paul's During the Blitz: July 1940 John Topham: London, England, United Kingdom 35 mm [s 2] Buckingham Palace: 13 September 1940 Cecil Beaton: London, England, United Kingdom [s 2] Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico: 1 November 1941 Ansel Adams Hernandez, New Mexico, United States Gelatin silver print, large ...
Since the buildings had been stripped to the bare brick in the late 1940s, most of the exterior and interior finish that can now be seen was done under East German control. After the formation of the German Democratic Republic 's (GDR's) National People's Army in 1956, the buildings became a restricted military area housing several East German ...