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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 18h

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 23h

Memorial plaque from 1979 at Handjerystr. 2 (Berlin-Schöneberg): “During the Berlin Blockade and for the freedom of our city, two American pilots died when their supply aircraft crashed here on 25 July 1948.“ It is unclear what happened to the 1st plaque from three days after the accident.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 23h

Sources:
- www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/der-r...
- www.gedenktafeln-in-berlin.de/gedenktafeln...

Berliner Luftbrücke: Der Rosinenbomber-Absturz von Friedenau

Die Berliner Luftbrücke war am 25. Juli 1948 seit einem Monat im Gang. In der Nacht stürzte ein Rosinenbomber in der Handjerystraße in Friedenau ab. Gerhard Haupt erlebte es im Alter von neun Jahren.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 23h

Memorial plaque from 1979 at Handjerystr. 2 (Berlin-Schöneberg): “During the Berlin Blockade and for the freedom of our city, two American pilots died when their supply aircraft crashed here on 25 July 1948.“ It is unclear what happened to the 1st plaque from three days after the accident.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 2d

Friedrich Simon Archenhold, born in 1861, founded the Archenhold Observatory in Treptower Park in 1896, home to the “Celestial Cannon,” the world’s longest moveable telescope - it’s still there today! He died #otd 1939 after being forced out of his career under the Nazis.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 2d

I apologize for bringing it up in this context: My wounded grandfather (a Wehrmacht soldier) stayed at a German field hospital in this town (“Konstantinowka”) in 1942. Does anybody know where “Armee-Feldlazarett 1/562” was located?

Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 2d

Did you have regular classtests during the year?

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. Thank you

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, who can help me with the word “exam”in a school context? To me an exam is an important test (usually a written one) in the sense of “final exams”. Can you use it in the context of classtests of which students take 2-4 (or more) during a whole school year (not just at the end of a semester)?

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 2d

The Strand in NYC (Manhattan) was a great labyrinth, before they renovated it (or did they move, I don’t remember).

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juliangraeber.bsky.social @juliangraeber.bsky.social · 3d

Heute ist ein trauriger Tag für den Berliner Fußball. Nach 102 Jahren ist die "Fußball-Woche" zum letzten Mal erschienen. Bei uns im Verein ging jeden Montag der erste Weg zum Platzwart, der immer ein Exemplar dabei hatte. (1/7) www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/tradit...

Traditionszeitschrift wird eingestellt: Die „Fußball-Woche“ liebte und lebte den Berliner Fußball

Ob Kreis- oder Bundesliga, die „Fußball-Woche“ berichtete seit 1923 immer mit viel Herzblut. Das Fachblatt war integraler Bestandteil der Berliner Fußballkultur – und wird eine riesige Lücke hinterlas...

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Topographie des Terrors @topographie.de · 3d

„ … abgeholt!“
Gedenken an den Beginn der nationalsozialistischen Deportationen von Juden aus Berlin vor 84 Jahren

📆Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025
🕖12:00-13:00 Uhr
📍Mahnmal Gleis 17 | S-Bahnhof Grunewald, 14193 Berlin

www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...

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Ein Ausschnitt des Mahnmals Gleis 17: Bahngleise und die eingravierte Inschrift "18.10.191 / 1251 Juden / Berlin"; vor dem Mahnmal sind Rosen abgelegt.
Unten rechts steht der Bildnachweis: (c) Ständige Konfernz / Marko Priske

Über dem Foto steht:
„ … abgeholt!“
Gedenken an den Beginn der nationalsozialistischen Deportationen von Juden aus Berlin vor 84 Jahren

Unterhalb des Fotos steht:
16. Oktober 2025, 12 Uhr
Mahnmal Gleis 17, S-Bahnhof Grunewald, 14193 Berlin

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 3d

(…) It appears plausible that one or several of these floors could have been occupied by the company that produced the prism inlets, Stern-Prismen.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 3d

(…) The address today is Bundesallee 19 (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) and both the residential building facing the street - one of only a few that survived the war in this area! - as well as the one behind it and - in 3rd row, typical of Berlin - a building used for manufacturing are still standing! (…)

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 3d

Around 100 years ago, prism inlets were used to spread out the little sunlight that came through small openings into Berlin’s cellars - rather clever! Here is an example on Köpenicker Str. (Berlin-Kreuzberg): Stern-Prismen, a company at Kaiserallee 19. This street name does not exist anymore. (…)

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

Déja-vu while walking past this cul-de-sac near Bundesplatz: Bernhardstr. used to be formed like the letter U but lost its horizontal line when the city Autobahn was built north of the tracks of the Ringbahn. Actress/singer Hildegard Knef lived here at no. 5 (1933), later in no. 6 (destroyed (…)

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

The ceiling of the railway bridge across Handjerystr. (Berlin-Friedenau) shows damage in a crescent shape as if a mortar shell landed below the bridge coming in from the south and left its angel-wings blast pattern (sideways/forward). Whatever actually caused it, it is not age-related damage.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

The ceiling of the railway bridge across Handjerystr. (Berlin-Friedenau) shows damage in a crescent shape as if a mortar shell landed below the bridge coming in from the south and left its angel-wings blast pattern (sideways/forward). Whatever actually caused it, it is not age-related damage.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

Later, still walking through Wilmersdorf ☝️🤓

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

I may be wrong but I think I have found the biggest “angel wings” blast pattern I have ever seen in Berlin 😳

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

“Déja-vu” because I looked that up a few years ago - and just now walked past this location.

Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

(…) in an air raid in late 1944, now both below the Autobahn). In the movie “The Man Between” (1946) the character played by Knef lives on a (ficticious) Bernhardstr. in the Tiergarten district, apparently a name used because of Knef.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

Sources:
- 1928.tagesspiegel.de
- histomapberlin.de/de/index.html
- www.friedenau-aktuell.de/bernhardstra...
- www.hildegardknef.de/Chronologie%...
- www.filmschaffende-in-gross-glienicke.de/wp-content/u...

Berlin 1928 und heute

Zwei Ansichten einer Stadt. Kommen Sie mit uns auf Zeitreise und gleiten Sie aus dem Berlin des Jahres 1928 in das von heute.

1928.tagesspiegel.de

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 4d

Déja-vu while walking past this cul-de-sac near Bundesplatz: Bernhardstr. used to be formed like the letter U but lost its horizontal line when the city Autobahn was built north of the tracks of the Ringbahn. Actress/singer Hildegard Knef lived here at no. 5 (1933), later in no. 6 (destroyed (…)

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 5d

"Italian photographers Stefano Corso and Dario-Jacopo Laganá visited more than 200 former military locations with one goal: to document the physical traces of the Red Army in Germany."

@marcelkrueger on a project called: We Will Forget Soon...

www.slowtravelberlin.com/we-will-forg...

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