Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: ca. 1940
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.293341

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH. NO. BU.5264 (XT)OFFICE PHOTOGRAPH-CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED.IN HAMBURG SECOND DAY AFTER SURRENDER OF TOWN. / Hamburg surrendered unconditionally on May 3rd / 1945, and was occupied by elements of the 7th / Armourad Division and 53rd Division. On the second / day after the surrender, the British wave in possession / of a deserted city, the civilians having been ordered / to keep off the streets for 48 hours. Streets wrecked / by previous R.A.F. bomber command raids were found / throughout the city. / Picture shows: View of R. A. F. bomb damage in the area / known as New Hamburg, seen from St. Michael's Church.Markings:Verso: BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH. NO. BU.5264 (XT)OFFICE PHOTOGRAPH-CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED.IN HAMBURG SECOND DAY AFTER SURRENDER OF TOWN. / Hamburg surrendered unconditionally on May 3rd / 1945, and was occupied by elements of the 7th / Armourad Division and 53rd Division. On the second / day after the surrender, the British wave in possession / of a deserted city, the civilians having been ordered / to keep off the streets for 48 hours. Streets wrecked / by previous R.A.F. bomber command raids were found / throughout the city. / Picture shows: View of R. A. F. bomb damage in the area / known as New Hamburg, seen from St. Michael's Church.

Tagasauris Keywords: 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division; Aerial View; Archangel Michael's church, Turku; Architecture; City; Civilian; Crown copyright; Day; Disasters and accidents; Hamburg; Nobody; Nobody; Outdoors; Photograph; Photography; Property damage; Royal Air Force; Rubble; Ruins; United Kingdom; Unrest, conflicts and war; World War II
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: MISCELLANEOUS / WWII-RUINS-HAMBURG
Retouching: N