[Pharmboy]

As a postscript to the Coventry bombing, the people of Coventry gathered the nails from the bombed-out cathedral and fashioned them into a cross. This cross now sits in the center of Berlin in a German bombed-out church. If you visit Berlin, do not miss this memorial. It will take your breath away...it did mine.

[SunkenCiv]

The story of those nails — they are medieval in date, handmade, and no-joke big in size, and the congregants were *inside* the church when the roof caved in during the bombing. Those nails rained down as they ducked for cover under pews and whatnot. And they fashioned a similar cross for their own cathedral.

[TalonDJ]

They also did that with a lot of other nails from there and presented them to various churches. All the ships named HMS Coventry have carried one. They actually went down to the Coventry sunk during the Falklands war and brought its cross back up to return to the cathedral.