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The Kassel World War II bombings were a set of Allied strategic bombing attacks which took place from February 1942 to March 1945. In a single deadliest raid on 22–23 October 1943, 150,000 inhabitants were bombed-out, [citation needed] at least 6,000 people died, [citation needed] the vast majority of the city center was destroyed, and the fire of the most severe air raid burned for seven days.
The Battle of Kassel was a four-day struggle between the U.S. Army and the German Army in April 1945 for Kassel, a medium-sized city 140 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt am Main, which also is the second-largest city in Hesse (after Frankfurt). The battle resulted as the U.S. Third Army pushed northeast from the region of Frankfurt and Mainz.
Dec 17, 2023 · Between February 1942 and March 1945, Kassel was subjected to more than 40 bombing attacks from Allied force, reducing the city’s population from a pre-war high of 236,000 to a post-war lull of just 50,000. By the war’s end at least 90% of the old city centre lay in ruins, medieval buildings brought to the ground by tons and tons of ammunition.
1942 - Bombing of Kassel in World War II begins. 1943 - July: Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. The prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians. 1944 - October: Several prisoners escaped from the Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of Buchenwald. 1945 29 March: Kassel-Druseltal subcamp of Buchenwald dissolved.
Kassel was the capital of Hesse-Kassel (later the Electorate of Hesse) from 1567 to 1866; it also served as the capital of the short-lived kingdom of Westphalia (1807–13) and, after 1866, of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (until 1944). A centre of German airplane and tank production in World War II, it was almost totally destroyed by ...
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The Kassel Mission of Sept. 27, 1944 was not only one of World War 2's most spectacular battles, it was also one of the most unusual, in that it took place between 20,000 and 26,000 feet above what would become the dividing line between East and West Germany. As a result, half of the 25 bombers that were shot down crashed east of the border ...
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Apr 19, 2014 · During the remainder of the war Kassel was repeatedly attacked by the Allied Air Forces. It would take more than a year before Bomber Command would raid the city again. During the night of 3-4 October 1943, 547 aircraft bombed the city center. 569 bombers carried out another attack less than three weeks later (22-23 October).
