SZ Photo - Air defense and the pop­u­la­tion during the bombing war

24.09.1940 - During a British airstrike on Berlin, Berliners find refuge in the air-raid shelter in the basement of a tenement building. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1944 - A group of Hitler Youth members stand next to a fire engine on Ludwigstrasse (Ludwig Street) after Munich has been hit during an Anglo-American airstrike. In the background of the...
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22.10.1940 - Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, visits houses destroyed by air raids. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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31.08.1943 - Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, speaks to the people of Berlin after bombardments during the aerial warfare. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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23.09.1940 - These men and women searched protection in the shelters after an air raid warning during the air war. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1939 - Nach einem Bombenangriff in einer Straße in München. Während links noch gelöscht wird, hantiert ein Hitlerjunge mit der Gasmaske. (Aufnahmedatum: 01.01.1939-31.12.1945)
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01.11.1943 - Residents of Berlin, during an air attack in a public air raid shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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18.09.1943 - After Allied air attacks on Berlin women installed their stoves and cookers outdoors in Berlin Lankwitz in order to be able to cook. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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13.07.1943 - Residents during an Allied air raid in an air raid shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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24.09.1940 - A destroyed house in East Berlin after British air attacks. Firefighters at cleanup. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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20.04.1944 - Not so much an expression of resistance, but rather an example of unwanted irony, the banner reads "We greet the first worker of Germany." The banner was fixed to the ruin of a hou...
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01.07.1943 - A woman runs through the streets of Hamburg with her last few possessions during an allied air raid on the town. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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24.07.1944 - Employees of Scherl Publishing House single out usable stones from the debris after an airstrike. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1939 - A poster is calling on the German people to mind the regulations on blacking our rooms and houses. A skeleton is seen riding on a British fighter plane, threatening to drop a bomb...
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13.03.1941 - Two men lead the fight against fire bombs. While one is pumping water out of a bucket with a hand-pump, the other is trying to put the fire out with a hose. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1942 - Destruction after bomb hits in Munich. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1939 - A sign threatens with capital punishment for plundering in the houses devastated by bombings. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.01.1944 - A baker's wife sells bread at an improvised sales counter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1944 - On the morning after a night of bombing in the summer of 1944 in Munich, a woman carries things from her house to safety, among them a crucifix. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.10.1940 - After a provision from 01.10.1940, all registered cars had to be equipped with camouflage headlight which is common at the Wehrmacht. These scattered the light in a way that it cou...
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30.08.1943 - Women hang laundry to dry which they have retrieved from their bombed house. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1939 - Smoke from burning houses in a street in Stettin. While firemen are running towards the fire, civilians are running away from it. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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15.07.1944 - A woman moves laundry out of her bombed out house. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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10.10.1941 - In high-risk cities special air raid shelters were created. Families on the way to the air raid shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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26.04.1941 - A member of the Reich air protection corps shows spectators a British firebomb during a demonstration in fire fighting during the war. The bomb weighs 1.7 kg, its termite electron...
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13.03.1941 - A member of the air protection corps shows how to put out the fire of a firebomb. One should near the bomb's point of impact behind some kind of cover and use sand to extinguish th...
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09.08.1943 - Two Hitler Youth fight the fire from a firebomb with a pump during an exercise. A policeman supervises the endeavor. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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05.01.1944 - Employees of the sales department of Scherl Publishing House in the destroyed attic of one of the company's buildings in Berlin. The rubble is moved to the side, on the left stones...
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01.01.1943 - Before the shop of the Fiat dealer Karl Keidler rubble and stones are put into a cart after an air attack of the Allies. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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30.08.1943 - A girl in BDM uniform in mission of war at the aid agency, distributes soup for the bomb victims. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1944 - A family in Mannheim, who was buried during the bombing in an air raid shelter, is rescued at the last moment by the relief staff and brought to safety. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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13.07.1943 - Date: July 13, 1943. View into an air raid shelter during an air raid. To the right is the ventilation construction of the shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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13.07.1943 - Date: July 13, 1943. View into an air raid shelter during an air raid. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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05.08.1940 - Nazi official with mainly international journalists in front of a destroyed house in Hamburg-Barmbeck. The intention was to refute British success stories and focus on civilian vic...
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05.01.1944 - Stairs to a shoe store set up in a basement. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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10.10.1941 - A mother with her children in the corridor of an air raid shelter: straight ahead there is the exit, on both sides there are bedrooms, on the ceiling vent can be seen. [XPAEXPORTID...
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13.07.1943 - A nurse of the Red Cross looks after waiting people in a bomb shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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26.09.1940 - The bomb shelter of a private house in Berlin with waiting people. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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23.09.1940 - Children try out a water pump, which should be used by citizens for fire fighting. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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23.09.1940 - A woman playing cards with her children in the bomb shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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04.10.1940 - Citizens of Berlin in a private air-raid shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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23.09.1940 - Citizens of Berlin in an anteroom to a bowling alley used as air-raid shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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26.09.1940 - People read, knit or sleep while waiting to can leave the bomb shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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04.06.1942 - Children with supervisor when washing themselves in the air raid shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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09.10.1941 - Sleeping area with bunk beds in an air-raid shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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07.07.1943 - Issue of identity cards on the road after airstrikes. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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10.09.1943 - Konstantin Hierl (2nd from left), minister without portfolio and Reich Labor Leader, Head of the Reich Labor Service, distinguished members of the RAD with the War Merit Cross for...
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11.09.1940 - An incendiary bomb that went through the ceiling, burning under the Brandenburg Gate [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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19.07.1940 - A boy on a bicycle with mandatory blackout light. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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29.11.1943 - Women prepare sandwiches for bomb victims in an office of the NSV . [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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06.12.1939 - An improvised directional light, which should replace the street lamps, adapted to the blackout. The aim was to make light on a radius of about 15 meters and with the aid of light...
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07.09.1939 - BVG employees form a bucket chain for the reinforcement of air raid shelters with sandbags. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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23.11.1939 - Policemen in front of a window lit despite blackout obligation, at the beginning of the war, due to the risk of air raids. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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12.01.1942 - Air raid defense fire guard in a plant of the Scherl publishing house with equipment. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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02.09.1939 - Sandboxes and sandbags to secure an air raid shelter from splinters. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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11.08.1943 - Citizens of Berlin read an information poster on air raid protection. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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11.08.1943 - Soldiers making a splinter protection trench for air raid protection on Doenhoffplatz in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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17.08.1943 - Children help build a splinter protection trench. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1943 - Berlin children fill the sand of a playground in paper bags which are to be used in fires caused by bombs. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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26.04.1941 - A demonstration of the Reichsluftschutzbund (State Air Protection Corps) on the extinguishing of firebombs at the intersection Unter den Linden - Friedrichstrasse, which should hig...
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09.08.1943 - A pyrotechnician of the Wehrmacht shows a phosphorus firebomb without tail. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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11.08.1943 - Soldiers building a splinter protection trench for air raid protection on Doenhoffplatz in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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13.07.1943 - The administrator and the Red Cross nurse in of a bunker in a separate room for sick people. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.12.1941 - The emergency department of a bomb shelter with nursing assistants and equipment, among others, protective suits and stretchers. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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30.08.1943 - After an air raid a destroyed shop windows is replaced with wooden boards. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.12.1940 - Visitors at the Adler-Luftwaffe exhibition, named after the propaganda magazine with the same name of the Ministry of Aviation on the Doenhoffplatz in Berlin. Here at the air defen...
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