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On April 24, 1944, 234 Lancasters and 16 Mosquito aircraft from the RAF attacked Munich. It was a devastating and concentrated attack, and around 80% of the buildings in the target area were destroyed. [4] The attack was noted for a new method of target marking at low level from 700 feet. Karlsruhe, further to the north-west, was also heavily ...
MapQuest. Screenshot of MapQuest in use on a web browser. MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps. [2][3]
Munich, town map 1858. In 1806, it became the capital of the new Kingdom of Bavaria, with the state's parliament (the Landtag) and the new archdiocese of Munich and Freising being located in the city. Twenty years later Landshut University was moved to Munich. The Bavaria with the Ruhmeshalle, opened in 1850.
Ireland: "Position Images" was the world's first "Street View"-style service and was launched in 2001. [26] Italy: Italiaonline company runs an online map service Tuttocittà which provides street views of locations across Italy. Kosovo: GjirafaPikBiz offers street view for all major locations of Kosovo.
v. t. e. The bombing of Stuttgart in World War II was a series of 53 air raids that formed part of the strategic air offensive of the Allies against Germany. The first bombing (by 20 aircraft of the Royal Air Force) occurred on August 25, 1940, and resulted in the destruction of 17 buildings. The city was repeatedly attacked over the next four ...
Dachau was the concentration camp that was in operation the longest, from March 1933 to April 1945, nearly all twelve years of the Nazi regime. Dachau's close proximity to Munich, where Hitler came to power and where the Nazi Party had its official headquarters, made Dachau a convenient location.
The Führer Headquarters (German: Führerhauptquartiere), abbreviated FHQ, were a number of official headquarters used by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and various other German commanders and officials throughout Europe during World War II. [1] The last one used, the Führerbunker in Berlin, where Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, is ...
Türkenstraße. The Türkenstraße is an inner city street in Munich 's district Maxvorstadt. It is named after the Türkengraben (Turkish moat) to which it ran. In the list of historical monuments in Munich, more than 30 objects are listed in the Türkenstraße.