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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. The city was defended by the LXXX Corps of the Seventh Army.
Bomb damage near Frankfurt Cathedral included 2 bridges (May 1945). The old City of Frankfurt in 1942 before its destruction. 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).
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]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Frankfurt am Main, ... World War II: 1939–1945: ... Frankfurt at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
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.
The headquarters of the OMGUS was the former IG Farben Building in Frankfurt am Main. Command of the OMGUS was initially invested in the later President Dwight Eisenhower, who was commander-in-chief of the American forces in Europe at the end of World War II. Eisenhower's successors were: George S. Patton (November 1945, acting)