Until May 1945, the deep cellars of the Albertinum housed the Municipal Civil Air Defence Office, which was headed by Dresden's chief of police. This bunker – bombproof and fitted with the necessary technical equipment – was also used in parallel as the Operational Headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (the Nazi party, NSDAP). The cellars were not accessible to the public.
This is the location where the air-raid warning for Dresden was set off on 13 February 1945, at 9.39pm. At 10.03pm, the Civil Air Defence Office realised that the attack was aimed at Dresden, and two minutes later this was communicated to the local population by wire radio. The first bombs fell on the city at 10.13pm. The wire radio announcement on this event was to be the last from here – telephone connections to the Albertinum then collapsed almost entirely.
The scale of the night's catastrophe overwhelmed and virtually incapacitated the Civil Air Defence Office. It was no longer possible to coordinate rescue measures from there, and this was Marked in 2001
Further reading: see bibliography on pp. Neutzner, Martha Heinrich, pp. 91ff.
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This is the location where the air-raid warning for Dresden was set off on 13 February 1945, at 9.39pm. At 10.03pm, the Civil Air Defence Office realised that the attack was aimed at Dresden, and two minutes later this was communicated to the local population by wire radio. The first bombs fell on the city at 10.13pm. The wire radio announcement on this event was to be the last from here – telephone connections to the Albertinum then collapsed almost entirely.
The scale of the night's catastrophe overwhelmed and virtually incapacitated the Civil Air Defence Office. It was no longer possible to coordinate rescue measures from there, and this was Marked in 2001
Further reading: see bibliography on pp. Neutzner, Martha Heinrich, pp. 91ff.
back to overview