The Great Flood of 1962 in Hamburg
The Great Flood of 1962 in Hamburg | Environment & Society Portal
The Great Flood of 1962 was the most devastating natural disaster to strike Germany in the twentieth century. In Hamburg, over one hundred thousand people ...
North Sea flood of 1962 - Wikipedia
The North Sea flood of 1962 was a natural disaster affecting mainly the coastal regions of West Germany and in particular the city of Hamburg in the night ...
The Hamburg Flood in Public Memory Culture
On 20 February 1962, some 150,000 people gathered on Hamburg's Rathausmarkt for a commemoration of the victims of the great flood that had inundated large parts ...
Storm Flood 1962 - Hamburg - HHLA
The last truly destructive flood occurred in 1855, long forgotten by the residents of Hamburg in 1962. Warnings issued for low-pressure system ...
The night of the storm surge - YouTube
On the night of February 16th-17th, 1962, Hamburg experienced the ... flood. Much has changed since then. The head of the water ...
Storm surge in Hamburg | Historical missions - Defensie.nl
During the night of Friday 16 to Saturday 17 February 1962, Hurricane Vincinette tore across northern Germany and the northeast of the Netherlands, ...
Expiry date of a disaster: Memory anchoring and the storm surge ...
We apply the framework of memory anchors to the case study of the Storm Surge 1962 and the following flood disaster, which took place in Hamburg, Germany.
Remembering the Hamburg storm surge 60 years ago - Räder-Vogel
In the night of 16 to 17 February 1962, a severe storm surge engulfed northern Germany. In Hamburg, numerous dikes broke and about a third of the city was ...
The Great Flood of 1962 in Hamburg - Arcadia
The Great Flood of 1962 was the most devastating natural disaster to strike Germany in the twentieth century. In Hamburg, over one hundred thousand people were ...
North Sea flood of 1962 | EPC Resilience
The extensive flooding resulted in 347 deaths. Flood. 347 Fatalities.
500 FEARED DEAD IN HAMBURG FLOOD; Bodies of 208 ...
By Gerd Wilcke Special To the New York Times. Feb. 20, 1962. 500 FEARED DEAD IN HAMBURG FLOOD ...
How Hamburg recovered after the catastrophic flood of 1962
Severe floods have taken place throughout German history, but none so deadly as the Hamburg flood of 1962, also known as the North Sea Flood ...
50th anniversary of storm surge in Hamburg: Subsequent flood ...
For hours on end on the night of 16 and 17 February 1962, a severe winter¬ storm drove the waters of the North Sea against the German coast and ...
1962 Press Photo Floods Hamburg floods - Historic Images
Death role rises in Hamburg floods. worst in living Memory: Twenty thousand troops - many of them British are helping in the great rescue operations in the ...
germany: rescue operations continue in flooded hamburg. (1962)
AS THE WATERS OF THE NORTH SEA RECEDED FROM THE FLOODED AREAS AROUND HAMBURG, WEST GERMANY, ANOTHER THREAT AROSE IN THE DEVASTATED AREA - TYPHUS. INDIA: INDIAN ...
On This Day: February 16th - Geoengineer.org
The North Sea flood of 1962 was a natural disaster affecting mainly the ... Hamburg in the night from 16 February to 17 February 1962. In total, the ...
The Great Flood of 1962 in Hamburg | Arcadia
Around midnight, the Elbe broke through the dyke system at sixty locations. Photo of flooded city of Hamburg at Wilhelmsburg in 1962. 1962 ...
Broken dyke after the storm surge in Hamburg in February 1962 ...
In February 1962, Hamburg experienced its most catastrophic storm surge event of the 20 th century. This paper analyses the event using the Twentieth Century ...
The Great Flood in Hamburg, February 1962 - The Treasure Bunker
16./17. February 1962 Storm over the North Sea, the water rises along the Elbe, flooding and carrying away everything in its path, the dykes ...
Reanalysis of the Hamburg Storm Surge of 1962 - ResearchGate
... The storm surge and consecutive flood in 1962 marked a turning point in Hamburg's history. In the disaster 315 people in Hamburg (and 35 along the North Sea ...