Children in the middle of clearing-up operations after storm

Two children play in the disaster area in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg on the roof of a destroyed VW Kaefer on the 28th of February in 1962. In the background, clearing-up operations after the devestating storm tide take place. All in all, 300 people died in the storm tide, several thousand people became homeless. Especially Wilshelmsburg, a part of Hamburg, was affected

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Affected Beetle Catastrophe Clearing Disasters Especially Flooding Swelling Thousand Tide Wilhelmsburg Wreck

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