Damaged Street in Aachen, Germany; Second World War, 1944

Photograph showing the devastation in Aachen, Germany, after fighting between the German and Allied armies, October 1944. Two horses can be seen walking down the rubble strewn road. Adolf Hitler, the German Fuhrer, gave the order that there should be no surrender in Aachen, making the battle that raged there particularly brutal and destructive

Aachen Brutal Destructive Devastation Fuhrer Raged Strewn

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