
I Must Not Burn: The Bombing of Dresden 1945
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Inferno of the City
The wind itself was on fire. The air that was being drawn in from the outside to feed the ferno was like a solid object, so great was its force. People running through the streets found themselves getting suddenly stuck as if in quicksand and it trapped hundreds of people. Their shoes melted and then their feet burned. And all they could do was collapse from the pane and fall face first into the tar.
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