These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
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Parachute mines
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Roper's Garden
Parachute mines were used in the early 40s; the end of the war was characteri...
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Johann Waida
A German WW1 internee at Alexandra Palace who died there and was buried in New Southgate Cemetery. AN607
1 memorial
Robert Bosch
German industrialist, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of the multinational engineering and technology company Bosch. In 1898 Bosch partnered with Frederick Simms, a Hamburg-born Briti...
1 memorial
Joseph Hirschmuller
A German WW1 internee at Alexandra Palace who died there and was buried in New Southgate Cemetery. AN179
1 memorial
Reinhard Heydrich
Nazi official. Born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich in Halle an der Saale. An architect of the Holocaust, he is regarded as one of the most extreme members of the Nazi regime, with even Hitler call...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia, Germany
1 memorial
Horst Dohm
Politician. District mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf from 1981 to 1996.
1 memorial
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