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Operation Carthage, on 21 March 1945, was a British air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War which caused significant collateral damage. The target of the raid was the Shellhus , used as Gestapo headquarters in the city centre.
The Institut Jeanne d'Arc, also Den Franske Skole, was a French-language Roman Catholic school at 74 Frederiksberg Allé in the Frederiksberg district of central Copenhagen, Denmark. Established in 1924, it was bombed by the Royal Air Force on 21 March 1945, during Operation Carthage , when pilots mistook the school for their actual target ...
21 March – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 123 Danish civilians, including 87 school children, are killed. [2] 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces. [3]
Carthage (1945) — RAF bombing of the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark; Cartoon (1943) — commando raid on the island of Stord near Leirvik, Norway; Catherine (1939) British plan to gain control of Baltic Sea; Claymore (1941) — British raid on Lofoten Islands, Norway; Crackers (1943) — British raid at Sognefjord, Norway
People celebrating the liberation of Denmark at Strøget in Copenhagen, 5 May 1945. Germany surrendered two days later. Approximately 6,000 Danes were sent to concentration camps during World War II, [48] of whom about 600 (10%) died. In comparison with other countries this is a relatively low mortality rate in the concentration camps.
27 January: The first World War II US mission flown against the German homeland bombs Kriegsmarine submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven. [27]: 107 5/6 March: The first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr [2] flew RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of World War II, with 160 acres destroyed and 53 Krupps buildings bombed at Essen.
The devastating bombing raids of Dortmund on 12 March 1945 with 1,108 aircraft – 748 Lancasters, 292 Halifaxes, 68 de Havilland Mosquitos – was a record attack on a single target in the whole of World War II. More than 4,800 tonnage of bombs was dropped through the city centre and the south of the city and destroyed 98% of buildings.
Bomber over Danmark Vestallierede Luftangreb under 2. Verdenskrig [Bombers over Denmark: Western Allied Air Attack during the Second World War]. Nyt Nordisk Forlag, Arnold Busck. ISBN 978-8-717-04271-1. Mitcham, Samuel W. (2007). German Order of Battle: 291st – 999th Infantry Divisions, named Infantry Divisions and Special Divisions in World ...