With a modest memory ceremony, on Good Friday, the Hellenic (Eligoland) residents in the North Sea today honored the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the small island from 1,000 British bombers on April 18 and 19, 1945. Naval military facilities built there by the Nazis of Adolf Hitler by turning the small island into a fortress specially designed for submarines and warships. Within 100 minutes about 7,000 bombs fell on the island. About 2,000 inhabitants rushed to the shelters to escape. At the end of the extensive British bombings at the end of April 1945, almost all the houses were destroyed, while the number of victims and injuries were significant. It should be noted that due to the island’s militarily valuable geographical location, fortification works had been carried out on the island of just 4 square kilometers already in World War I. The biggest conventional explosion in history “was a turning point for the island,” says […]
Source: News Beast
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