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1945: Broken Bridge

Margaret Bourke-White Photograph

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At the end of World War II, Margaret Bourke-White documented the fall of Germany in photographs, many of which were printed in Life magazine or in her book, "Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly": A Report on the Collapse of Hitler's "Thousand Years".
Broken Bridge 1945 Margaret Bourke-White

7th April 1945: The Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine in Cologne in ruins at the end of World War II.

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