Hamburg German Hamburg German Hamburg German, also known as Hamburg or Hamburger dialect (), is a group of Northern Low Saxon varieties spoken in Hamburg, Germany. Occasionally, the term "Hamburgisch" is also used for Hamburg "Missingsch", a variety of standard German with Low Saxon substrates. These are urban dialects that have absorbed numerous English and Dutch loanwords, for instance "Törn" ‘trip’ (< turn) and "suutje" ‘gently’ (< Dutch "zoetjes"). Hamburg is pronounced in these dialects, with a "ch" similar to that in the standard German word "Milch". Typical of the Hamburg dialects and other Lower Elbe dialects is the pronunciation (and spelling)
The Battle of Hamburg (book) The Battle of Hamburg (book) The Battle of Hamburg (subtitled: "The Firestorm Raid") is a book by the British military historian Martin Middlebrook describing the combined RAF Bomber Command and USAAF 8th Air Force attacks on the German city of Hamburg in the Summer of 1943. The raids were carried out under the codename "Operation Gomorrah" and the initial attack became infamous for creating the phenomenon known as a firestorm, which caused great destruction to the city and its inhabitants. The book attempts to give a non-partisan account and goes into well researched detail about the raid, which includes interviews