World War II: The city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildesheim" id="mwAQE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hildesheim">Hildesheim</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" id="mwAQI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Germany">Germany</a>, is heavily damaged in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hildesheim_in_World_War_II" id="mwAQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bombing of Hildesheim in World War II">British air raid</a>, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.<sup about="#mwt128" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_22#cite_note-23" id="mwAQQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQU">[23]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt132" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_22#cite_note-24" id="mwAQY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQc">[24]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt136" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"}}' id="cite_ref-25" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_22#cite_note-25" id="mwAQg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 25;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQk">[25]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt140" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-26"}}' id="cite_ref-26" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_22#cite_note-26" id="mwAQo" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 26;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQs">[26]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"><cite about="#mwt125" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source" id="CITEREFBode">Bode, Volker. <a class="external text" href="http://archiv.nationalatlas.de/wp-content/art_pdf/Band5_88-91_archiv.pdf" id="mwCKk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Kriegszerstörung und Wiederaufbau deutscher Städte nach 1945"</a> <span class="cs1-format" id="mwCKo">(PDF)</span> (in German)<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCKs">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCKw">15 October</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt125" class="Z3988" id="mwCK0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Kriegszerst%C3%B6rung+und+Wiederaufbau+deutscher+St%C3%A4dte+nach+1945&amp;rft.aulast=Bode&amp;rft.aufirst=Volker&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchiv.nationalatlas.de%2Fwp-content%2Fart_pdf%2FBand5_88-91_archiv.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+22"></span><link about="#mwt125" href="./Category:CS1_German-language_sources_(de)" id="mwCK4" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>