King Charles laid a wreath remembering those who died in Allied wartime bombing raids on Hamburg.
A display at the site recalls that 34,000 people died in the intense bombing and firestorms that followed, carried out by US and British air forces 80 years ago.
The roofless church is now only a skeleton of its former self, but it had been designed by the English architect, George Gilbert Scott. Readings at St Nikolai spoke of setting grievances aside and avoiding the "hatred that divides nations from nations".
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