The 15th of October 1944 was a fateful day for the medievial city of Brunswick. The No. 5 Group Royal Air Force started the "Operation Hurricane" at 1.50 in the morning. The bombardment of Brunswick. The attack took 40 minutes but the bombs and the following firestorm destroyed 90% of the inner city. Within the 24 hours of Operation Hurricane, the RAF dropped about 10,000 tonnes of bombs in all on Duisburg and Brunswick, the greatest bomb load dropped on any one day in the Second World War.
The exact number of victims is not known. It is told between 300 and 1,000. But Brunswick was in luck. The town had a very good system of bunkers and air raid shelters and a possible loss of 15,000 victims as in Hamburg or 40,000 victims as in Dresden remained as saved.

The burning downtown of Brunswick in the night of 15 October 1944.

The Fallersleber Street with St Cathrin in the middle and St Andreas on the right side.

The grave field with the graves of the victims of 15 October 1944.

The memorial in the center of that part of the cemetery.
Inscription: For the dead of the war, tyranny and expulsion.