‘The Battered Face of Germany’: Ruins of the Reich, Pictured From the Air

 

"In fact, the strategy of bombing German cities — and German-occupied cities in France and elsewhere — throughout the war has been both defended and excoriated through the decades. But in light of Bourke-White’s stark, masterful aerial shots, there’s little room for debate on one salient point: if the bombings were meant to rain down maximum destruction, they succeeded with a grim thoroughness that remains shocking even today, seven decades after the air-raid sirens, the explosions and the screams of the living and the dying echoed in the ruins."

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‘The Battered Face of Germany’: Ruins of the Reich, Pictured From the Air | TIME