The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids was a series of aerial attacks in April and May 1942 by the German Luftwaffe on English cities during the Second World...

German bomber campaign. On 23 April 1942 the Baedeker offensive began with the Exeter Blitz and the Bath Blitz and extended west to Norwich. KG 2 carried...

the Blitz. Initially bombed in the summer of 1940, Norwich was subsequently not attacked until April and May 1942 as part of the so-called Baedeker raids...

of Verlag Karl Baedeker.[citation needed] Baedeker Blitz Karl Baedeker List of Baedeker Guides Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baedeker, Karl" . Encyclopædia...

changed in 1942 when Exeter became the first target of the so-called "Baedeker Blitz", a campaign to attack targets of cultural and historical, rather than...

city remained largely untouched until April 1942 and the start of the Baedeker Blitz, mounted in response to a step-change in the effectiveness of the RAF's...

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followed over the next week, in what became known in the UK as the Baedeker Blitz. This first series of raids ended in early May. When Cologne was greatly...

of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley). 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York arts and literature birth...

confectionery manufacturing centre. In the Second World War, part of the Baedeker Blitz bombed the city. Although York was less targeted during the war than...

died, including 57 consecutive nights of air raids just over London Baedeker Blitz (April and May 1942) – Air raids on English cities of cultural/historical...

London, Coventry, and many other British cities were firebombed during the Blitz by Nazi Germany. Most large German cities were extensively firebombed starting...

evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht. 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British...

The Birmingham Blitz was the heavy bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe of the city of Birmingham and surrounding towns in central England, beginning...

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physicist F. W. J. Baedeker (1788–1865), German pharmacist, collector of bird eggs, and a bird illustrator Baedeker Baedeker Blitz This page lists people...

for cultural reasons as for their industries, and became known as the Baedeker Blitz. Across South West England, Bath was hit on 25/26 and 26/27 April, Exeter...

first half of the 19th century. During the Bath Blitz of 25/26 April 1942, one of the Baedeker Blitz retaliatory raids on England following the Royal...

city centre on 14 May, an event sometimes referred to as the Rotterdam Blitz. According to an official list published in 2022, at least 1,150 people...

The Southampton Blitz was the heavy bombing of Southampton by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during World War II. Southampton was a strategic bombing target...

sheltering in the cellar of a house on Tempest Road in Beeston. Hull Blitz Sheffield Blitz Baedeker Raids, a programme of raids on historical cities that affected...

The Belfast Blitz consisted of three German air raids on strategic targets in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, in April and May 1941 during World...

Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to retaliate with the so-called Baedeker Blitz: The Führer has ordered that the air war against England be given a...

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Operation Capricorn (German: Unternehmen Steinbock), sometimes called the Baby Blitz, was a strategic bombing campaign by the German Air Force (the Luftwaffe)...

operations in the Baltic. While the bombing of Britain intensified during the Blitz, Hitler issued his Directive No. 21 on 18 December 1940 instructing the...

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1940, which overlaps the period of large-scale night attacks known as the Blitz, that lasted from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941. German historians do...

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The Blitz – German air raids on British cities in which at least 40,000 died, including 57 consecutive nights of air raids just over London Baedeker Blitz...