Hamburg
Like the capital, Berlin, the German port city of Hamburg was fortified with two concrete Flak Towers ('Flaktürme' in German) between 1942 and 1944.
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Hamburg is Germany's second-largest city and its main port thanks to the Elbe River that connects Hamburg to the North Sea.
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Hamburg
In the German port city of Hamburg, a complex of neo-Gothic brick warehouses, the Speicherstadt, was built on islands in the Elbe between 1883 and 1927.
Hamburg
In 1911, the St. Pauli-Elbtunnel was the technical sensation of the moment because it was the first substantial underwater tunnel on the European mainland.
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