Cologne was home to the 211th Infantry Regiment and the 26th Artillery Regiment. During the night of 31 May 1942, Cologne was the target of " Operation Millennium ", the first 1,000 bomber raid by the Royal Air Force in World War II. 1,046 heavy bombers attacked their target with 1,455 tons of explosives, approximately two-thirds of which were incendiary. [22]

The first ever 1,000 bomber raid by the RAF was conducted on Cologne on the night of 30/31 May 1942. Codenamed Operation Millennium, the massive raid was launched for two primary reasons: . It was expected that the devastation from such raids might be enough to knock Germany out of the war or at least severely damage German morale.; The raids were useful …

La ville de Cologne a été bombardée 262 fois au cours de raids aériens [1] alliés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dont la grande majorité étaient des raids de la RAF.Les alertes s'étaient faites rares de l'hiver au printemps 1940, et c'est le 12 mai 1940 qu'eut lieu le premier vrai bombardement.

The Cologne Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Cologne, including several surrounding cities of the Cologne Bonn ... was destroyed. After World War 2, the depot was almost completely destroyed and for the time, depots Sülz and Ost were used. In 1961 to 1964 the depot as it now is was built. The depot is ...

Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia.It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne.It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a …

The Cologne school massacre was a mass murder that occurred at the Catholic elementary school (German: katholische Volksschule) located in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, West Germany on 11 June 1964. The perpetrator, Walter Seifert, also known as "Der Feuerteufel von Volkhoven" ("Firedevil of Volkhoven"), attacked the people at the school with a home-made …

History. Cologne was the ancient Roman city of Colonia Agrippina in the province of Germania Inferior, and has been a bishop's see since Roman times.In 953, the archbishops of Cologne first gained noteworthy secular power, when Bishop Bruno was appointed as duke by his brother Emperor Otto I.To weaken the secular nobility, who threatened his power, Otto endowed Bruno …

The Great Saint Martin Church (German: Groß Sankt Martin, mostly shortened to Groß St. Martin, pronounced [ˈɡʁoːs ˌzaŋt ˈmaʁtɪn] or [- maʁˈtiːn] (), Colognian: [ˈjʁus² ˌtsɪnt ˈmɛ²təs] ()) [what does "²" mean?] is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany.Its foundations (c.960 AD) rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine.

After World War II, many Cologne businesses ended up owning property that had been Aryanized from pre-war Jewish owners. In 2009, the publisher M. DuMont Schauberg took the German weekly Der Spiegel to court for suggesting that the publisher and family knew that it was acquiring three properties Aryanized from Cologne Jews, and Der Spiegel retracted the article.

The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714. The death of childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700 led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Philip of Anjou and Charles of Austria , and their respective supporters, among them Spain , Austria , France , the Dutch Republic , Savoy and …