The Day German High Command Learned Hamburg Had Been Destroyed
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In July 1943, the Allies launched Operation Gomorrah, a combined RAF and USAAF bombing campaign against Hamburg, Germany's second-largest city and most important port. The raids introduced a secret radar-blinding technology called Window for the first time, and targeted a city baking under one of the driest, hottest summers in recent memory. The Blohm & Voss U-boat shipyards, hundreds of war-industry factories, and nearly 1.8 million civilians sat directly in the path.
On the night of July 27th, the bombing produced a firestorm with winds of 240 kilometers per hour and core temperatures of 800 degrees Celsius. Twenty-one square kilometers of the city center burned in hours. When reports of the disaster finally reached Berlin, Albert Speer went directly to Hitler with a warning that no one in the room had heard before.
This is the full story of Operation Gomorrah, the night Hamburg burned, and what it did to the German leadership that watched it happen from Berlin.
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The Day German High Command Learned Hamburg Had Been Destroyed
The History Archive
118,740 views
In July 1943, the Allies launched Operation Gomorrah, a combined RAF and USAAF bombing campaign against Hamburg, Germany's second-largest city and most important port. The raids introduced a secret radar-blinding technology called Window for the first time, and targeted a city baking under one of the driest, hottest summers in recent memory. The Blohm & Voss U-boat shipyards, hundreds of war-industry factories, and nearly 1.8 million civilians sat directly in the path.
On the night of July 27th, the bombing produced a firestorm with winds of 240 kilometers per hour and core temperatures of 800 degrees Celsius. Twenty-one square kilometers of the city center burned in hours. When reports of the disaster finally reached Berlin, Albert Speer went directly to Hitler with a warning that no one in the room had heard before.
This is the full story of Operation Gomorrah, the night Hamburg burned, and what it did to the German leadership that watched it happen from Berlin.