Restrained?
Restrained?
Berlin 1945
Aerial view of bombed out buildings in the Schoneberg section of Berlin following Allied capture of the city.
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Luftangriffe auf Dresden im Februar 1945 - Bild 6 von 9
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Hamburg, Germany, 1943, from the BBC:
“The big bombs blocked roads, shattered water mains and, crucially, blew out windows and roofs.
“Then thousands of incendiaries could start fires to cause intensive destruction.”
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Kate Hoffmeister, 19, was trying to escape the furnace her Hamburg neighbourhood had become.
“I struggled to run against the wind in the middle of the street... we couldn’t go on across [the road] because the asphalt had melted.
“There were people on the roadway, some already dead, some still lying alive but stuck in the asphalt. They must have rushed on to the roadway without thinking.
“Their feet have got stuck and they had put out their hands to try and get out again. They were on their hands and knees screaming.”
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“At this moment something snapped in a neighbour and, caught up in a panic, he took his bed cover and wanted out.
“None of us could stop him. We saw him still, but only as a living torch carried by the firestorm, ‘flying through the air’.”
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She said: “We came out... into a thundering, blazing hell. The streets were burning, the trees were burning and the tops of them were bent [by the wind] right down to the street.
“Burning horses out of the Hertz hauling business ran past us. The air was burning; simply everything was burning.”
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aircrews reported being able to feel the heat, getting soot over their aircraft and even the smell of roasting flesh.
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upwards of half of all homes in the city were destroyed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43546839