On 9-10 July 1945 he took off from Tempelhof airport aboard an US liaison aircraft and overflew the Nazi capital to shot the devastation caused by Allied bombs. In the center of town GIs could walk for blocks and see no living thing, hear nothing but the stillness of death, smell nothing but the stench of death.” The U5 line through the station to the east opened on 4 December 2020.William Vandivert (1912 – 1989) from American LIFE Time magazine, was the first Western photojournalist to reach Berlin and to gain access to Hitler’s F ührerbunker, after the fall of the Third Reich in May 1945. He took a series of photographs including these excellent aerial views showing devastation and bombed out buildings over wide area following Allied capture of the city. 33-year-old Vandivert reported to LIFE: “found almost every famous building a shambles. Both the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn station were renamed Brandenburger Tor in 2009 to distinguish them from Unter den Linden U-Bahn station at the junction of Unter den Linden with the Friedrichstraße. On completion of the new U55 line of the Berlin U-Bahn from Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the U-bahn station started operations as its temporary southern terminus and as an interchange with the Nord Süd S-Bahn lines. Unter den Linden later reopened on 1 September 1990, following the German reunification. The station was again closed with the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 and for decades became one of Berlin's ghost stations, as while both terminals of the Nord-Süd railway line were located in West Berlin, the station itself was located in the East. Train service discontinued on 21 April 1945 and could not be resumed until 2 December 1946 as the tunnel was flooded.
The station opened on 27 July 1936 in the course of the building of the Nord-Süd Bahn tunnel.
0 kommentar(er)
