Ohlsdorf Cemetery
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Ohlsdorf Cemetery in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world. Most of the people buried at the cemetery are civilians, but there is also a larg
Burial site at Ohlsdorf cemetery
Water tower of the Ohlsdorf cemetery (with a bus stop)
"Ride over the River Styx"
Loki and Helmut Schmidt gravestone
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamb
Ohlsdorf Cemetery
…Gedenkstätte für die Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung); the monument, "Passage over the River Styx" (Fahrt über den Styx) for the victims of the Hamburg firestorm; the "Memorial Grove for the Hamburg Resistance Fighters", which includes a memorial erected on the initiative of the Sophie Scholl Foundation, the…
Aftermath in the Eilbek district of Hamburg. This picture was taken after much of the rubble had been cleared, probably after VE Day.
An Avro Lancaster bomber over Hamburg, 30/31 January 1943
Sculpture at the main memorial in the ruins of the Nikolaikirche