Sink the Bismarck!
Here in the story
City
Before a cheering crowd, Hitler watches the launch of the battleship that is meant to rule the Atlantic.
What happened here
Germany's great port was a cultural centre in the Weimar years and an industrial one under the Nazis: the Blohm & Voss yard launched the battleship Bismarck there on 14 February 1939 and turned out U-boats throughout the war. In late July 1943 Operation Gomorrah, a week of RAF and American raids, created a firestorm that killed around 37,000 people and left much of the city in ruins.
Films and series set in Hamburg
Mephisto
Here in the story
City
In a provincial Hamburg theatre, Hendrik Höfgen burns with ambition, plays the rebel and even launches a revolutionary workers' stage.
