Operation Carthage

When

21 Mar 1945

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

55.68° N, 12.56° E

Description

air raid on Gestapo Copenhagen 1945

1945 British air raid on Copenhagen, Nazi-occupied Denmark, during WWII

Operation Carthage, on 21 March 1945, was a British air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War which caused significant collateral damage. The target of the raid was the Shellhus, used as Gestapo headquarters in the city centre. It was used for the storage of dossiers and the torture of Danish citizens during interrogations.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 123 Danish…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem britischen Luftangriff auf die Gestapozentrale Kopenhagen wird irrtümlich eine Schule bombardiert; bei dem Angriff kommen unter anderem 86…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page