Hein Gorny, a German photographer, took to the air in 1945 and 1946 on small American planes to take photos of the complete devastation wrought upon Germany. The planes were eventually noticed by British authorities and grounded. Gorny’s son Peter told Der Spiegel “Before he pressed the shutter release, my father composed the photos in his mind. . . . For him the most important thing about these shots was the shadows.” This shot shows that the Tiergarten had been thoroughly bombed and burnt.
