Sheffield City Hall has some visible damage from the air raids and there are plenty of other signs of the blitz if you know where to look. However there isn't anything still standing that shows quite the damage that is visible here in these photographs of the Palais De Justice in Rouen.
The building still bears the scars of some quite serious calibre weaponry used during the liberation of the town in August 1944.
There is a commemorative plaque on the building.
A very rough translation of the text of the plaque reads:
In memory of the many of the resistance and patriots who were incarcerated in the courthouse between 1940 and 1944, from where they went to the Nazis execution squads, prisons and penal colonies. "France is grateful"
It's not only France that's grateful.
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