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The Battle of Frankfurt was a three-day battle for control of Frankfurt am Main during World War II. The 5th Infantry Division conducted the main attack while the 6th Armored Division provided support. The city was defended by the LXXX Corps of the Seventh Army.
Bomb damage near Frankfurt Cathedral included 2 bridges (May 1945). The old City of Frankfurt in 1942 before its destruction. Bombing of Frankfurt am Main by the Allies of World War II killed about 5,500 residents and destroyed the largest half-timbered historical city centre in Germany (the Eighth Air Force dropped 12,197 tons of explosives on the city).
During World War II, Frankfurt was the location of a Nazi prison for underage girls with several forced labour camps, [3] a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), [4] the Dulag Luft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war, [5] and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. [6]
The Old Town of Frankfurt in June 1945 showing the destruction caused by the allied bombing raids. Post-war reconstruction of Frankfurt was the broad period from 1945 into the 1960s during which the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany removed the rubble created by Allied raids and the subsequent battle by Allied ground forces to take the city and rebuilt the damaged parts of city.
Pages in category "Frankfurt in World War II" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bendergasse;
Memorial to the 11,134 Frankfurt citizens killed during the Holocaust – Anne Frank's name is located in the center of the picture with a rock placed on her memorial. Following the destruction of World War II, the area was completely leveled and built over.
During World War II, Frankfurt was the location of a Nazi prison for underage girls with several forced labour camps, [22] a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), [23] the Dulag Luft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war, [24] and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. [25]
During World War II, Deutsche Luft Hansa employed more than 10,000 forced laborers, including many children, from occupied countries; forced Jewish labor was particularly used from 1940 to 1942. [59] [60] [61] Forced laborers were used to install and maintain radar systems and to assemble, repair, and maintain aircraft, including military aircraft.