Bode Museum
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The Bode Museum, formerly called the Emperor Frederick Museum, is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1898 to 1904 by order of German Emperor Wil
Berlin Museumsinsel Fernsehturm
Sandro Botticelli, "Madonna and Child with Angels Carrying Candlesticks," c. 1485/1490, formerly the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, destroyed 1945 in Flakturm Friedrichshain fire, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
The Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in 1904 with the memorial on the front square
At night
Flak tower
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Flak towers were large, above-ground, anti-aircraft gun blockhouse towers constructed by Nazi Germany. "Flak" is short for anti-aircraft gun in German: Flugabwehrkanone. There were eight flak tower co
Bode Museum
…honor of its first curator, Wilhelm von Bode, in 1956. During World War II, portions of the collection were stored in an antiaircraft tower called the Flakturm Friedrichshain for safe keeping. In May 1945, several fires destroyed some of the collections. In total, more than 400 paintings and about 300 sculptures were missing…
The "G-tower" at Augarten, Vienna. The top of the "L-tower" is visible to the right.
Flak tower during construction (1942)
A 12.8 cm FlaK 40, the main guns of the Flak-towers, and its crew
Humboldthain Flak tower today in Berlin