Frankfurt/Main Aerial and Historical Views - Photo #60 - Frankfurt/Main bombing and ruins

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Photo:  Armin Schmid, Frankfurt im Feuersturm, Verlag Frankfurter Bücher (1965).

Henkelhaus, Goetheplatz 5, 1944. I don't know what the Henkelhaus was, but now the address is of a modern building in the heart of the business district. Persil is the name of a popular laundry soap. After the war, Germans had to get a "Persilschein" that said investigations had found them "clean" of Nazi war crimes before they could work.