Air raid on Gestapo headquarters in Oslo (1944)

Tram wreck after the bombing, December 1944

The air raid on the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo (1944) was flown on December 31, 1944 with twelve De Havilland DH.98 Mosquitos of the Royal Air Force (RAF) to the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo , which was located in the Victoria Terrasse building complex . Only the first six aircraft dropped their bombs, while the second attack wave could no longer attack due to poor visibility from the explosions. Victoria Terrace remained undamaged, but a bomb hit a fully occupied tram. A total of 78 Norwegians and 27 Germans were killed in the attack.

Web links

• Oslo tragedy as RAF Mosquitos attack Gestapo HQ on World War II Today

See also

• Air raid on the Aarhus Gestapo headquarters
• Air raid on the Copenhagen Gestapo headquarters
• Air raid on the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo (1942)

literature

• Cato Guhnfeldt: Bomb Gestapohovedkvarteret , 1995 ISBN 978-82-992194-3-3 (not viewed)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oslo tragedy as RAF Mosquitos attack Gestapo HQ on World War II Today, accessed February 7, 2017