Baedeker Blitz

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The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids was a series of bombing raids by the Luftwaffe on the United Kingdom during World War II in April and May 1942. Towns and cities in England were targeted for their cultural value as part of a demoralisation campaign.

1942  Wikidata
Baedeker raids
airstrike, Nazi Germany, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, 

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