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As part of a sustained campaign of strategic bombing during World War II, the attack during the last week of July 1943, code named Operation Gomorrah, created one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II, [2] killing an estimated 37,000 people in Hamburg, [3] wounding 180,000 more ...
The flak towers had also been designed with the idea of using the above-ground bunkers as a civilian shelter, with room for 10,000 civilians and a hospital ward inside. During the Battle of Berlin, occupants formed their own communities, with up to 30,000 Berliners taking refuge in one tower during the battle.
Heiligengeistfeld (German: "Holy Ghost Field") is an area of Hamburg in the St. Pauli quarter. The Hamburger Dom funfair has been held there since 1893. [ 1 ] When the area is not used for exhibitions, circuses or the Dom it is a car park.
The Capture of Hamburg was one of the last battles of the Second World War, where the remaining troops of the German 1st Parachute Army fought the British XII Corps in Lower Saxony for the control of Hamburg, Germany, between 18 April and 3 May 1945. British troops were met with fierce resistance when they advanced toward the city as Hamburg ...
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A submarine pen (U-Boot-Bunker in German) is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. The term is generally applied to submarine bases constructed during World War II , particularly in Germany and its occupied countries, which were also known as U-boat pens (after the phrase " U-boat " to refer to ...
A Nazi wartime anti-aircraft tower, built by forced labor in 1942, has been turned into a leisure complex, hotel and spectacular urban oasis.
The camp operated from 1938 to 1945 in the Neuengamme neighbourhood of Hamburg. During World War II Hamburg suffered a series of devastating air raids which killed 42,000 German civilians. British bombers dropped 23,000 tons of bombs, the Americans dropped 16,000 tons.