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It was named after the former Apollo refinery, destroyed by carpet bombing by the Allies in the Second World War, which was lying nearby on the left bank of Danube.
The name Tigerfish goes back to Air Vice-Marshall Robert Saundby, an avid fisherman who codenamed all German cities "fitted" for carpet bombing with a Fish code.
On behalf of Harris he elected 94 German towns which were "fitted" for carpet bombing and gave codenames to each of them known as 'Fish code'; for example Nuremberg was codenamed Grayling and Berlin was Whitebait.
During the allied break out attempt allied carpet bombing near the French village of Saint-Lô decimated the division.
Laid out in the entrance hall of the Bendlerblock, this oversized carpet, when viewed from above, shows a war-torn Berlin and ironically refers to the military term carpet bombing.