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The American and British counter-offensive<\/h2>\n\n
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Saarbr\u00fccken bombed in March 1945.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

As early as January 1943, during the Inter-Allied Conference in Casablanca, Hitler’s army retreated on many fronts. Nevertheless, the American and British air forces proceeded to the “progressive destruction (…) of the German army, industry and economic system (…) to a point where their capacity for armed resistance would be fatally weakened” (extract from the Casablanca directive).<\/p>\n\n

The USAAF (United States) and the RAF (United Kingdom) organized massive bombing campaigns on German industrial areas. The Ruhr Region was particularly affected. Cities such as Hamburg, Kassel, Pforzheim, Dresden, and Mainz were also attacked and almost completely destroyed.<\/p>\n\n

Saarbr\u00fccken was also heavily bombed between 1942 and 1945, resulting in the almost total destruction of the old town. Nearly 1,200 people died, and about 11,0000 buildings were destroyed just in Saarbr\u00fccken.<\/p>\n\n

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US soldiers in devastated Saarbr\u00fccken in 1945.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","type_sujet":[84],"class_list":["post-5663","sujets-thematiques","type-sujets-thematiques","status-publish","hentry","type_sujet-second-world-war"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWorld War Two: Bombing of Germany in 1945<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1945, Germany was invaded and bombed by the American and British air forces.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/en\/sujets-thematiques\/bombing-of-germany-in-1945\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World War Two: Bombing of Germany in 1945\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 1945, Germany was invaded and bombed 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