“like many other cities, had been totally obliterated…” — Fresh Hell Podcast at 24:03
“like many other cities, had been totally obliterated during the war. We're talking something like, I think, 80% of the historic old town destroyed in the Allied bombing raids. It was one of the worst-hit cities in all of Germany. So in the immediate post-war years, this is a city that's basically rubble with a river…”
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