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The Battle of Frankfurt was a three-day battle for control of Frankfurt am Main during World War II. The 5th Infantry Division conducted the main attack while the 6th Armored Division provided support.
Bombing of Frankfurt am Main by the Allies of World War II killed about 5,500 residents and destroyed the largest half-timbered historical city centre in Germany (the Eighth Air Force dropped 12,197 tons of explosives on the city). In the 1939–45 period the Royal Air Force (RAF) dropped 15,696 long tons (15,948 t) of bombs on Frankfurt. [1]
The Old Town of Frankfurt in June 1945 showing the destruction caused by the allied bombing raids. Post-war reconstruction of Frankfurt was the broad period from 1945 into the 1960s during which the city of Frankfurt in Germany removed the rubble created by Allied raids and the subsequent battle by Allied ground forces to take the city and rebuilt the damaged parts of city.
During World War II, Frankfurt was the location of a Nazi prison for underage girls with several forced labour camps, [3] a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), [4] the Dulag Luft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war, [5] and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. [6]
Pages in category "Frankfurt in World War II" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bendergasse;
Dulag Luft (Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe, Transit Camp of the Airforce) were German Prisoner of War (POW) transit camps for captured airmen from any of the allied air forces during World War II. Their main purpose was to act as collection and interrogation centres for newly captured aircrew, before they were transferred in batches to the ...
In 1953 archaeological excavations in the core of the historic town, made possible by the bombing and destruction of Frankfurt in World War II, revealed remnants of the historic palace, west of Frankfurt Cathedral, in the basement of the Haus zur Goldenen Waage. [1] The palace was situated on a flood-safe elevation in the east of the Altstadt.
The Frankfurt/Oder Fortress Division was a "fortress" division of the German Army (Heer) during the Second World War, active during the last months of the war in 1945. The city of Frankfurt an der Oder controlled one of the major crossings across the Oder river by which Soviet forces advancing from the east could reach Berlin.