40 Rare Photos Showing What D-Day Was Really Like

Published on 09/01/2021
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Cleanup

The city was in tatters and needed some serious work in order to move forward. As a result of this, the civilians made themselves useful and began a cleanup of the city. As you can see below, they had made progress quite quickly, despite the limited tools and help.

Cleanup

Cleanup

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Potsdamer Platz

Nowadays, Potsdamer Platz is an important public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin. Can you believe that at one stage it looked like the image below? The area was in ruins and it looks a shadow of what it looks like nowadays.

Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz

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