National Content: Germany
"Unter der Wolke des Todes" "Under the cloud of death"
The pictures shows the center of Dresden whih was one of the most heavily bombed German city and the distruction of the center of the city with a lot of historical memorials - all destroyed by fire.
The department store "Defaka" after a bombattack,at Graf-Adolf-Straße 44 in Duesseldorf at 12 of June 1943
On this Picture you can see a department store it´s name was "Defaka", it´s the big building in the Middel of the picture. In front of the store is the Graf-Adolf-Straße, the street was called Adolf-Hitler-Straße at this time.
Bunker in Düsseldorf
1941 the bunker l was built by a lot of people. The walls were built of concrete because they had to offer a safe protection against the bombes. The pictures show of how many layers the walls were made to get a bombe-safe construction. The thickness of the walls is up to one meter. The construction was as well above the ground as well as under the ground. One could think that the construction took a long time. But in fact during the war everything has to be done very fast.
Zerstörung des Kölner Doms - The destruction of the Cathedral in Cologne
The picture shows the dimension of the destruction of the center of Cologne after heavy shellfires.
Destruction of the Cathedral of Coventry
The pictures shows the ruins of the destructed Cathedral of Coventry
A wounded person in a destroyed city
The pictures shows a wounded soldier who lost one leg in a destroyed Germany city.