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picture: The Dam Busters
published by: max_thehitman
In World War 2, the Edersee dam was a part of Operation Chastise, destroyed by special bouncing bombs dropped by British Lancaster bombers of No. 617 Squadron RAF in the early morning of May 17, 1943, creating massive destruction and loss of life downstream (including the death of 749 Ukrainian Prisoners of war in a labor camp just below the dam. Through the breach in the dam, 70 meters wide and 22 meters deep, water emptied into the narrow valley below, a total of about 160 million m3. A flood wave of 6-8 meters in height roared through the river valley as far as 30 km downstream, before it diminished in the widening floodplains of the lower Eder, the Fulda and the Weser.The dam was rebuilt within months by forced labor of Organisation Todt, and the lake today is a major summertime recreational facility. Its capacity of 199.3 million m3 makes it the third largest reservoir in Germany.