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Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. The ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, heavily damaged in an Allied bombing and preserved as a monument.

Date 25 August — 21 April Berlin , Nazi Germany. Germany Luftwaffe. History of Germany and History of Europe. Timeline of Berlin. One Farman N. Bombed Christuskirche church in Neukölln.

Damaged Brandenburg Gate. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Navy , Soviet Air Force. Burned Potsdamer Bahnhof , over civilians killed in a house at Pariser Platz [7].

Il-4 bombers. Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Avro Lancasters and 4 de Havilland Mosquitos. They bombed the city, which was under cloud.

Diversionary raids on Mannheim and Ludwigshafen by other aircraft. Mosquitos attacked several other towns.

In all sorties. Berlin the main target. Total aircraft. This was the most effective raid on Berlin of the war.

Most of the damage was to the residential areas west of the centre, Tiergarten and Charlottenburg , Schöneberg and Spandau.

Because of the dry weather conditions, several 'firestorms' ignited. Several factories employed in the manufacture of material for the armed forces and 26 aircraft 3.

Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Lancasters, 10 Halifaxes, 8 Mosquitos aircraft. Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Lancasters and 7 Mosquitos.

Most of the damage in Berlin was in the semi-industrial suburb of Reinickendorf. Stuttgart was a diversion, attacked by 84 aircraft.

The total sorties for the night was Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Lancasters, 18 Mosquitos, 15 Halifaxes. The Germans correctly identified that Berlin was the target.

Unexpected cross winds had scattered the bomber formations and so German fighters found the bombers easier targets.

Due to the cross winds the bombing was inaccurate and to the south of the city, but two more of the Siemens factories, a ball-bearing factory and several railway installations were damaged.

Berlin was the main target. It was attacked by Lancasters and 15 Mosquitos. German night fighters were successfully directed to intercept the bombers.

The damage to the Berlin railway system was extensive. The National Theatre and the building housing Germany's military and political archives were both destroyed.

The cumulative effect of the bombing campaign had now made more than a quarter of Berlin's total living accommodation unusable.

Two Bristol Beaufighters and 2 Mosquitos of No. A Bf was damaged, the first time these hunter killers had been on a successful Serrate patrol.

Berlin was attacked by Lancasters, 8 Mosquitos and 7 Halifaxes. German fighters encountered difficulty with the weather and were able to shoot down only 16 Lancasters, 4.

Damage to Berlin was relatively small. Heavy cloud cover frustrated the RAF and damage was light. German night fighters were effective and 6.

A small raid on Hamburg by 15 Mosquitos and smaller raids on other towns did not divert the night fighrers. A diversionary raid by 13 Mosquitos on Berlin.

No aircraft were lost. Night fighter attacks were pressed home successfully; 22 Halifaxes and 13 Lancasters were lost, 4. The damage could not be assessed due to low cloud cover the next day.

The RAF records state that the bombing appeared to have been spread well up- and down-wind. The diversionary raids were only partially successful in diverting German night fighters.

A further sorties were flown against other targets, with one aircraft lost. Western and Southern districts, covered by partial cloud, were hit in what the RAF records state was the most concentrated attack of this period.

German records do not fully support this mentioning that were 77 places outside the city were hit. Deception raids and routing over Northern Denmark did not prevent the German air defences from reacting.

Just over other aircraft attacked a number of other targets. RAF losses were 33 aircraft, 6. Berlin main target.

Despite cloud cover most important war industries were hit, including the large Siemensstadt area, with the centre and southwestern districts sustaining most of the damage.

A diversionary raid by 24 Lancasters of No. RAF lost 43 aircraft — 26 Lancasters, 17 Halifaxes, which was 4.

A further sorties were flown against other targets. Target: Berlin. Attempted raids had been halted by bad weather on 3 March. A maximum effort raid by Bs and Bs bombers and fighters of the Eighth Air Force.

Resulted in 37 losses. The Bomber loss rate stood at The Luftwaffe lost 64 fighters, including 16 Bf and Me heavy fighters.

Raid against Berlin by bombers. The Luftwaffe lost 42 fighters, with 3 killed, 26 missing and 9 wounded includes the Me and Bf multiple manned aircraft [63].

The bomber stream was scattered and those that reached Berlin bombed well out to the south-west of the city.

The RAF lost 72 aircraft, 8. The Jews were persecuted from the beginning of the Nazi regime. In the first week of April, Nazi officials ordered the German population not to buy from Jewish shops.

The Summer Olympics were held in Berlin and used as a showcase for Nazi Germany though the Games had been given to Germany before In order to not alienate the foreign visitors, the "forbidden for Jews" signs were temporarily removed.

Nazi rule destroyed Berlin's Jewish community, which numbered , before the Nazis came to power. After the pogrom of Kristallnacht in , thousands of the city's Jews were imprisoned.

Around , there were still 75, Jews living in Berlin. The majority of German Jews in Berlin were taken to the Grunewald railway station in early and shipped in stock cars to death camps such as the Auschwitz , where most were murdered in the Holocaust.

Only some Jews survived in Berlin by hiding. Approximately Jews survived in Berlin's Jewish Hospital.

Causes for their survival include bureaucratic infighting, hospital director Dr. Walter Lustig's relationship with Adolf Eichmann, the Nazis' bizarre system for classifying persons of partly Jewish ancestry, German leader Adolf Hitler's ambivalence about how to handle Jews of German descent, and the fact that the Nazis needed a place to treat Jews.

Tens of thousands died there. Sachsenhausen had subcamps near industries, where the prisoners had to work. Many of these camps were in Berlin. In the late s Hitler and his architect Albert Speer made plans for the new Berlin—a world city or Welthauptstadt Germania.

Adjacent to the Reichstag, Speer planned to construct the Volkshalle The People's Hall , m high, with an enormous copper dome.

It would be large enough to hold , people. From the People's Hall, a southbound avenue was planned, the Avenue of Victory, 23 m wide and 5. At the other end there would have been the new railway station, and next to it Tempelhof Airport.

Halfway down the avenue there would have been a huge arch m high, commemorating those fallen during the world wars. With the completion of these projects planned for , Berlin was to be renamed "Germania.

The war postponed all construction, as the city instead built giant concrete towers as bases for anti-aircraft guns. Today only a few structures remain from the Nazi era, such as the Reichsluftfahrtministerium National Ministry of Aviation , Tempelhof International Airport , and Olympiastadion.

Hitler's Reich Chancellery was demolished by Soviet occupation authorities. Initially Berlin was at the extreme range of British bombers and attacks had to be made in clear skies during summer, increasing the risk to the attackers.

Better bombers came into service in but most of the British bombing effort that year was spent in support of the Battle of the Atlantic against German submarines.

The Battle of Berlin itself has been well chronicled. Destruction of buildings and infrastructure was nearly total in parts of the inner city business and residential sectors.

The outlying sections suffered relatively little damage. By war's end up to a third of Berlin had been destroyed by concerted Allied air raids, Soviet artillery, and street fighting.

The so-called Stunde Null —zero hour—marked a new beginning for the city. Greater Berlin was divided into four sectors by the Allies under the London Protocol of , as follows:.

The Soviet victors of the Battle of Berlin immediately occupied all of Berlin. Berlin remained divided until reunification in The Soviets used the period from May to July to dismantle industry, transport and other facilities in West Berlin, including removing railway tracks, as reparations for German war damage in the Soviet Union.

This practice continued in East Berlin and the Soviet occupation zone after Conditions were harsh, and hundreds of thousands of refugees from the east kept pouring in.

Residents depended heavily on the black market for food and other necessities. Berlin's unique situation as a city half-controlled by Western forces in the middle of the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany made it a natural focal point in the Cold War after Though the city was initially governed by a Four Power Allied Control Council with a leadership that rotated monthly, the Soviets withdrew from the council as east—west relations deteriorated and began governing their sector independently.

The council continued to govern West Berlin, with the same rotating leadership policy, though now only involving France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

East Germany chose East Berlin as its capital when the country was formed out of the Soviet occupation zone in October ; however, this was rejected by Western allies, who continued to regard Berlin as an occupied city that was not legally part of any German state.

In practice, the government of East Germany treated East Berlin as an integral part of the nation.

Although half the size and population of West Berlin, it included most of the historic center. By the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line and the complete expulsion of the German inhabitants east of this line , Berlin lost its traditional hinterlands of Farther Pomerania and Lower Silesia.

West Berlin de jure remained under the rule of the Western Allies, but for most practical purposes was treated as a part of West Germany ; however the residents did not hold West German passports.

In response to Allied efforts to fuse the American, French, and British sectors of western Germany into a federal state, and to a currency reform undertaken by Western powers without Soviet approval, the Soviets blocked ground access to West Berlin on 26 June , in what became known as the " Berlin Blockade ".

The Soviet goal was to gain control of the whole of Berlin. The American and British air forces engaged in a massive logistical effort to supply the western sectors of the city through the Berlin Airlift, known by West Berliners as "die Luftbrücke" the Air Bridge.

The blockade lasted almost a year, ending when the Soviets once again allowed ground access to West Berlin on 11 May The Blockade and Airlift were iconic events in the early history of the Cold War , and made a profound impression on Berliners as to who their friends and their enemies were.

Because sometimes the deliveries contained sweets and candy for children, the planes were also nicknamed " Candy Bombers ". His plan was to set up a workers' demonstration that would allow the Kremlin to remove hardliner Walter Ulbricht and begin a program of economic concessions to the workers.

The plan failed when the demonstrations assumed a mass character. The strike against poor wages and working conditions overnight became a workers' revolution for democratic rights.

On 17 June, the Soviets used their tanks to restore order. This failure delayed German unification and contributed to the fall of Beria.

It started when 60 construction workers building the showpiece Stalin-Allee in East Berlin went on strike on 16 June , to demand a reduction in recent work-quota increases.

They called for a general strike the next day, 17 June. The general strike and protest marches turned into rioting and spread throughout East Germany.

The East German police failed to quell the unrest. It was forcibly suppressed by Soviet troops, who encountered stiff resistance from angry crowds across East Germany, and responded with live ammunition.

At least people were killed in the suppression of the uprising. Juni in honor of the uprising, and 17 June was proclaimed a national holiday in West Germany.

The 50th anniversary of 17 June in was marked by reflection on the role of memory in creating a national identity for a unified Germany.

On August 13, the Communist East German government started to build a wall, physically separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany, as a response to massive numbers of East German citizens fleeing into West Berlin as a way to escape.

The wall was built overnight with no warning. This separated families for as long as the wall was up. The East German government called the Wall the "anti-fascist protection wall".

The tensions between East and West were exacerbated by a tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie on 27 October The eastern and western sectors of Berlin were now completely separated.

It was possible for Westerners to pass from one to the other only through strictly controlled checkpoints. During the Wall's existence there were around 5, successful escapes into West Berlin; people were officially killed trying to cross see List of deaths at the Berlin Wall and around were seriously injured.

The sandy soil under the Wall was both a blessing and a curse for those who attempted to tunnel their way to West Berlin and freedom.

Although it was easy to dig through quickly, it was also more prone to collapse. When the first stone blocks were laid down at Potsdamer Platz in the early hours of August 13, US troops stood ready with ammunition and watched the wall being built, stone by stone.

President John F. Kennedy and the United States Congress decided not to interfere and risk armed conflict, but sent protest notes to Moscow. Massive demonstrations took place in West Berlin.

John F. Much Cold War espionage and counter-espionage took place in Berlin, against a backdrop of potential superpower confrontation in which both sides had nuclear weapons set for a range that could hit Germany.

In , the Four-Power Agreement on Berlin was signed. While the Soviet Union applied the oversight of the four powers only to West Berlin, the Western Allies emphasized in a note to the United Nations their position that four-power oversight applied to Berlin as a whole.

The agreement guaranteed access across East Germany to West Berlin and ended the potential for harassment or closure of the routes.

As many businesses did not want to operate in West Berlin due to its physical and economic isolation from the outside, the West German government subsidized any businesses that did operate in West Berlin.

In the s, West Berlin became one of the centers of the German student movement. West Berlin was especially popular with young German left-wing radicals, as young men living in West Berlin were exempted from the obligatory military service required in West Germany proper: the Kreuzberg district became especially well known for its high concentration of young radicals.

The Wall afforded unique opportunities for social gatherings. The physical wall was set some distance behind the actual sector border, up to several meters behind in some places.

The West Berlin police were not legally allowed to enter the space between the border and the wall, as it was technically in East Berlin and outside their jurisdiction: many people took the opportunity to throw loud parties in this space, with the West Berlin authorities powerless to intervene.

In and after, West Berlin became one of the centers of the student revolt; in particular, the Kreuzberg borough was the center of many riots.

Communist leader Erich Honecker speaks on October 23, , in commemoration of the city's th anniversary.

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The death toll amounted to 2,, fewer than might have been expected because the raid took place in daytime with relatively few incendiary bombs.

The number of wounded amounted to 20,, and , were left homeless or " dehoused ". Another raid on 26 February [46] left another 80, people homeless.

Raids continued until April, when the Red Army was outside the city. In the last days of the war the Red Air Force also bombed Berlin, as well as using Ilyushin Il-2 and similar aircraft for low-level attacks from 28 March onwards.

By this time Berlin's civil defences and infrastructure were close to collapsing but civilian morale held. After the capture of Berlin, Soviet General Nikolai Bersarin said, referring to the Red Army's artillery and rocket bombardment, that:.

Estimates of the total number of dead in Berlin from air raids range from 20, to 50,; current German studies suggest the lower figure is more likely.

The Nazi regime was acutely aware of the political necessity of protecting the Reich capital against devastation from the air.

By , however, the five huge public shelters Zoo, Anhalt Station, Humboldthain, Friedrichshain and Kleistpark were complete, offering shelter to 65, people.

Other shelters were built under government buildings, the best-known being the so-called Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery building.

In addition, many U-Bahn stations were converted into shelters. The rest of the population had to make do with their own cellars. In , the Germans decided to evacuate non-essential people from Berlin.

By 1. An effort was made to evacuate all children from Berlin, but this was resisted by parents, and many evacuees soon made their way back to the city as was also the case in London in — The increasing shortage of manpower as the war dragged on meant that female labour was essential to keep Berlin's war industries going, so the evacuation of all women with children was not possible.

At the end of the city's population began to grow again as refugees fleeing the Red Army 's advance in the east began to pour into Berlin.

The Ostvertriebenen "refugees from the East" were officially denied permission to remain in Berlin for longer than two days and were housed in camps near to the city before being moved on westwards; it is estimated less than 50, managed to remain in Berlin.

By January the population was around 2. Another , or so were forced labor, mainly French Fremdarbeiter , "foreign workers", and Russian Ostarbeiter "eastern workers".

The key to the Flak area were three huge Flak towers Flaktürme , which provided enormously tough platforms for both searchlights and mm anti-aircraft guns as well as shelters Hochbunker for civilians.

The Flak guns were increasingly manned by the teenagers of the Hitler Youth as older men were drafted to the front. After there was little fighter protection from the Luftwaffe , and the Flak defences were increasingly overwhelmed by the scale of the attacks.

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Date 25 August — 21 April Berlin , Nazi Germany. Germany Luftwaffe. History of Germany and History of Europe. Timeline of Berlin. One Farman N. Bombed Christuskirche church in Neukölln.

Damaged Brandenburg Gate. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Navy , Soviet Air Force. Burned Potsdamer Bahnhof , over civilians killed in a house at Pariser Platz [7].

Il-4 bombers. Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Avro Lancasters and 4 de Havilland Mosquitos. They bombed the city, which was under cloud.

Diversionary raids on Mannheim and Ludwigshafen by other aircraft. Mosquitos attacked several other towns. In all sorties. Berlin the main target.

Total aircraft. This was the most effective raid on Berlin of the war. Most of the damage was to the residential areas west of the centre, Tiergarten and Charlottenburg , Schöneberg and Spandau.

Because of the dry weather conditions, several 'firestorms' ignited. Several factories employed in the manufacture of material for the armed forces and 26 aircraft 3.

Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Lancasters, 10 Halifaxes, 8 Mosquitos aircraft. Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Lancasters and 7 Mosquitos.

Most of the damage in Berlin was in the semi-industrial suburb of Reinickendorf. Stuttgart was a diversion, attacked by 84 aircraft.

The total sorties for the night was Berlin, the main target, was attacked by Lancasters, 18 Mosquitos, 15 Halifaxes.

The Germans correctly identified that Berlin was the target. Unexpected cross winds had scattered the bomber formations and so German fighters found the bombers easier targets.

Due to the cross winds the bombing was inaccurate and to the south of the city, but two more of the Siemens factories, a ball-bearing factory and several railway installations were damaged.

Berlin was the main target. It was attacked by Lancasters and 15 Mosquitos. German night fighters were successfully directed to intercept the bombers.

The damage to the Berlin railway system was extensive. The National Theatre and the building housing Germany's military and political archives were both destroyed.

The cumulative effect of the bombing campaign had now made more than a quarter of Berlin's total living accommodation unusable. Two Bristol Beaufighters and 2 Mosquitos of No.

After the attempt failed, the leaders were rounded up and shot in the courtyard of this building; among these was Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, who had planted the bomb.

Today the building houses the Memorial and Museum of the German Resistance. Left - an SA column marches past the Anhalter Bahnhof train station.

Anhalter Bunker Museum. The Anhalter Bahnhof air-raid shelter, seen from the side closest to the Bahnhof.

The air-raid shelter serves today as a haunted house and bunker museum. My advice if you visit - skip the "haunted house," and proceed directly to the bunker museum on the lower floor.

Anhalter Bunker Museum -. Horst Wessel was a member of the SA who was murdered by Communists in Click here to see the site of Wessel's grave in the nearby Nikolaifriedhof cemetery.

The building directly behind the statue, which is the building to the right in the monument dedication photo on the left above, has been replaced.

However, the building to the left behind the statue in the photo on the left above still exists, and still has the flagpole holders and iron hooks to hold the wreaths between the windows and the long swastika banner running down the middle of the building, that can be seen in the period photo.

Google Maps link -. Berlin was protected by concentrated anti-aircraft defenses, including three huge concrete flak towers. Flakturm 1 also called the "Zoo Bunker" in the Tiergarten was completely destroyed after the war.

Flakturm 3 in Humbolthain Park shown here was only partially destroyed after the war. The massive concrete walls of the front half of Flakturm 3 remain today in Humbolthain Park.

The metal railings seen below are not period. The main gun positions at each corner were for long-range twin Inside the upper level of the Humbolthain Flakturm 3, just below the gun platforms.

This part of the ruined structure can be visited during a tour by the Berlin Unterwelten group. On the left, gun crews load one of the Ammunition was lifted to the gun platform on the top of the tower by a hoist seen in the right foreground , and carried by hand to the guns from there.

The guns had automatic rammer mechanisms to load the cartridges into the breech. On the right is one of the smaller gun positions on the Friedrichshain tower Flakturm 2 - a Flakvierling four-barrel 2.

The photos below show a 2. Click here to visit a page with more info and photos of the Berlin flak towers in German.

Click here to see the flak towers in Vienna. Lichterfelde Kaserne, southwest of the downtown area, was an old Prussian cadet training school.

The U. Army took the compound over in , and it served the Berlin Brigade as Andrews Barracks until , when it was returned to the German government.

The older part of the barracks area seems mostly deserted now. Other buildings on the Kaserne were built in the s especially for the Leibstandarte. This was their headquarters building, with their name above the main entrance.

The newer part of the compound is now a German government archives. The Soviets removed the eagle and swastika before the Americans arrived, and the US troops removed the Leibstandarte name.

This view shows the church in the early s. The church was severely damaged during the many bombing attacks on the city. The ruins of the spire and transept were left as a memorial to the victims of World War II.

Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, a propaganda coup for Adolf Hitler. The view of the stadium remains much the same on the outside as it was in , although the curved swastika symbol has been removed from the right-hand tower.

The interior was completely modernized for the soccer World Cup. Berlin was the scene of intense building-to-building fighting, with tank battles and artillery barrages, during the final days of World War II in late April and early May Remaining German units were thrown in piecemeal to try to stem the tide of the Soviet advances.

Tank Nr. Staff Sergeant Karl-Heinz Turk. Turk's tank destroyed several Soviet tanks over a three day period in the Potsdamer Platz.

With damage to his track and almost out of ammunition, Turk and his crew abandoned the tank in front of the Potsdamer Bahnhof, where it was later photographed with its turret turned toward the east.

This is an example of the difficulty of matching many wartime photos to the current Berlin locations. The Potsdamer Bahnhof was badly damaged during the war and later torn down.

Most of the other buildings on Potsdamer Platz were demolished by the Soviets because the Berlin Wall ran right through the center of the square.

When the rebuilding of Berlin began in the s, building blocks and even entire streets in this area were changed from the configuration.

Turk's Tiger tank sat in the foreground of the modern photo, about where the line of cobblestones crosses the paved area this line of cobblestones marks the location of the Berlin Wall.

The Potsdamer Bahnhof was located in the near distance, just beyond the grassy mound. This photo is often labeled as showing the famous Weidendammer Bridge, scene of one of the final tank actions of the war on the night of May However, it is actually the Moltke Bridge, some meters to the west.

As the Soviet tanks came onto the bridge from the north other side of the bridge in these photos , they could see their goal of the Reichstag building straight ahead, only meters away.

Bundesarchiv Berlin An exact corresponding view is not possible today, as the building from which the period photo was taken no longer exists, necessitating a modern view from street level.

This area remains under construction as part of the new Berlin. MapQuest Map Link -. The Reichstag building had not been restored by the Nazis since the fire that gutted the interior, but the Soviets considered it a prime target in the battle for Berlin, and artillery and tank fire took their toll on the building.

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