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The Battle of Kassel was a four-day struggle between the U.S. Army and the German Army in April 1945 for Kassel, a medium-sized city 140 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt am Main, which also is the second-largest city in Hesse (after Frankfurt). The battle resulted as the U.S. Third Army pushed northeast from the region of Frankfurt and Mainz.
- 1-4 April 1945
- American victory
- Kassel, Germany
The twentieth century is presented in terms of war and peace. Learn about the aftermath of World War I, the Weimar Republic and Kassel’s way into National Socialism. Dramatic midpoint is a model of the bombed city of May 1945. Afterwards you pass through the hard years of reconstruction towards the colourful 1950s and 60s.
Kassel (German pronunciation: [ˈkasl̩] ⓘ; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926 [ 3 ]) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, in central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name, and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020.
The Nuremberg War Trial judgment on "The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity" [12] held, under the guidelines Nuremberg Principles, that treaties like the Hague Convention of 1907, having been widely accepted by "all civilised nations" for about half a century, were by then part of the customary laws of war and binding on all parties whether the party was a signatory to the ...
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Under the heading ‘In memoriam anno … ’, a remarkable essay appeared in the recently licensed Kasseler Zeitung on 30 December 1946.1It opened with the words ‘Once upon a time …’ and the first-person narrator went on to relate the events of a very boozy New Year’s Eve, which had played out as an extended pub-crawl. The protagonists had met in the af...
Kassel, the former residence of the Landgrave of Kurhessen, was a prime target for Allied bombing from an early stage in the war.34 Geographically central in Germany, it was of great significance in the war effort: the ‘Tiger’ panzers and the infamous V1 rockets, among others, were produced here. Between 1940 and 1945 the town was bombed forty time...
The enquiry into the ‘second history’ of Old Kassel that follows will focus on three areas in particular. First, we shall look more closely at the notion of ‘Old Kassel’ itself. What was it that made up this imaginary place? What was its relationship to the real social and built environment? Second, an attempt will be made to identify the groups in...
An amateur film made immediately after the war illustrates how the idea of Heimat became a site of remembrance, called ‘Old Kassel’. Two features particularly identified this imaginary place. First, Old Kassel was an old town, not ‘old’ in the sense that it was dilapidated or in poor shape, but in the sense that it was mature and well established—n...
The conservative middle class saw the destruction of the urban environment during the bombing as a disastrous death-knell—the end of all that had made Kassel a beautiful old town—whereas the Social Democratic (SPD) town council, and especially the town planners working on reconstruction, were working from a very different perspective. For them, the...
In retrospect, it seems less surprising that in Kassel, as in other places, pride in the new town obscured the longing for the old, than that this pride was so short-lived. As a community Kassel had, more than many other towns, chosen the blandishments of modernity rather than the preservation of historical tradition, and yet it was nevertheless ge...
When the social scientists of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey published their report in 1945, after several months spent examining the destruction in Germany, they noted the important caesura imposed on the country by the raids: ‘Allied air power brought home to the German people the full impact of modern war with all its horror and suff...
- Jörg Arnold
- 2011
Mar 20, 2018 · Kassel, also occasionally called “Casselfornia” by its inhabitants, is located in the northern part of Hesse. Kassel has an important place in German history and bears many attractions and ...
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Kassel was the capital of Hesse-Kassel (later the Electorate of Hesse) from 1567 to 1866; it also served as the capital of the short-lived kingdom of Westphalia (1807–13) and, after 1866, of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (until 1944). A centre of German airplane and tank production in World War II, it was almost totally destroyed by ...
