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Mar 9, 2024 · For eight months the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other strategic cities across Britain. The attacks were authorized by Germany’s chancellor, Adolf Hitler, after the British carried out a nighttime air raid on Berlin. The offensive came to be called the Blitz after the German word blitzkrieg (“lightning war”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 2, 2021 · A point of no return. The Germans, suffering unsustainable losses, switched tactics away from attacking the beleaguered Fighter Command. Instead, they launched a sustained bombing campaign against London and other major British cities between September 1940 and May 1941.
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Bomb Sight makes you discover London during WW2 Luftwaffe Blitz bombing raids, exploring maps, images and memories. The Bomb Sight web map and mobile app reveals WW2 bomb census maps between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941, previously available only by viewing them in the Reading Room of The National Archives.
Bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or do much damage to the war economy; eight months of bombing never seriously hampered British war production, which continued to increase. The greatest effect was to force the British to disperse the production of aircraft and spare parts.
- 7 September 1940 – 11 May 1941, (8 months, 5 days)
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Aug 20, 2018 · Within the first six weeks of the bombing, big sections of low-quality, working-class housing had fallen, and a quarter of a million people were left temporarily homeless. In some respects the London Tube shelters did promote interclass solidarity.
Aug 4, 2014 · A German bakery is raided in Hackney, London, following an air raid on July 7, 1917. (Image: PA Archive/Press Association Images) Hackney has always been a frequently transforming face of London’s East End but it was unrecognisable as the place it is today before the First World War.
Jun 13, 2023 · Between 1940 and 1944, it is estimated that over twelve thousand metric tonnes of bombs were dropped on London, with the East End often bearing the brunt of the suffering. Anyone who commutes through the Bethnal Green Underground station will be struck by the Stairway to Heaven memorial.