The Federal city of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. About 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany’s largest metropolitan area.
The city is famous as a university city, the birthplace of Beethoven, as well as the capital city of West Germany from 1949 to 1990. It is home to the University of Bonn and a total of 20 United Nations institutions, the highest number in all of Germany.
These photos show what Bonn looked like from between the 1920s and 1940s.
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