To Destroy A City the invisible string

To Destroy A City the invisible stringHerman Knell was nineteen and living in Wrtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Wrtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city's structures. Despite the fact that Wrtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction

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