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Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler Heights, the Obersalzberg, Postcard (March 21, 1933)
In Mein Kampf, Hitler described how his years in Vienna had opened his eyes to the darkest depths....
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Young Women and Girls from a Countryside Boarding School [Landjahrheim] in Finkenkrug, Brandenburg (1934)
National Socialist "blood and soil" propaganda idealized the rural population as the backbone of racial....
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"City Children to the Countryside" (June 1936)
The National Socialist People's Welfare organization [Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt or NSV] started the "Children to the Countryside" program [Kinderlandverschickung or KLV]....
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Air Marshal Arthur Harris (1942/43)
As commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command (BC), Arthur Harris (second row, left) played a crucial role in planning and executing the Allied strategy of "morale bombing." The strategy....
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Report on British Air Raids on German Cities (October 16, 1943)
In words and images, this report from the British magazine The Sphere from October 1943 describes British air raids on the cities of Emden (September 28, 1943) and Hanover (September 22, 1943).....
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Aerial Images of Central Hamburg after "Operation Gomorrah" (July 28, 1943)
Starting in 1942, Allied air attacks on German cities became part of the population’s everyday experience of war. That year residential quarters in Lübeck, Rostock, and Cologne were bombed by British....
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Members of the People's Army [Volkssturm] with Weapons and a Battering Ram during an Exercise in Sanssouci in Potsdam (Fall 1944)
In the middle of 1944, the battlefronts began moving toward the German Reich. Starting in September of that year, all men between the ages 16 and 60 who were capable of bearing weapons were forced....
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Inferno in Dresden's Inner City (February 13, 1945)
During the night of February 13, 1945, the city of Dresden was hit by the heaviest Allied air strike of the war. Enormous quantities of explosives and fire bombs led to an estimated 40,000 civilian....
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Dresden in the Aftermath of Allied Bombing (February 13-14, 1945)
Until early 1945, Dresden was the only major German city largely spared by Allied air attacks. At the time of the attack, it was no longer of any great military or strategic importance; rather, it....
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