One of the main reasons why the Nazi Germany finally lost World War II was Hitler ’s break down strategic bombardment effort of the United Kingdom . The Blitz lasted for eight calendar month from September 1940 to May 1941 , the Luftwaffe bombers attacked 16 British cities . Over a period of 267 Day , London was assault 71 times , including 57 consecutive night of raid on the capital .
The fortitude and rebelliousness of British citizens helped the Royal Air Force to fend off Hitler ’s offensive during the other stages of the war . The last major attack on London start on the eventide of Saturday May 10 , 1941 , live as “ The Longest Night . ” Luftwaffe submarine sandwich made 571 flight approach and dropped 800 tonnes of bomb , kill 1,436 people .
The Blitz at long last bolt down over 20,000 people in London and leave another 1.5 million stateless . The destruction also changed the Washington ’s landscape painting more than at any time since the Great Fire of 1666 . The following set of digital composite images make a tragic yet heroic comparability between scenes of London in 1940 and 1941 and present Clarence Day to tick off the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Blitz in London on May 11 , 2016 .
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