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Real0ne -> RE: A Moment of Silence in Memory of The Holocaust (1/27/2017 11:57:36 PM)
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There are many survivor stories, one of which is from Lothar Metzger who was nearly ten years old when the bombings took place.
Years later, in 1999, he still recalled the disaster:
It is not possible to describe! Explosion after explosion. It was beyond belief, worse than the blackest nightmare.
So many people were horribly burnt and injured. It became more and more difficult to breathe. It was dark and all of us tried to leave this cellar with inconceivable panic. Dead and dying people were trampled upon, luggage was left or snatched up out of our hands by rescuers.
The basket with our twins covered with wet cloths was snatched up out of my mother's hands and we were pushed upstairs by the people behind us. We saw the burning street, the falling ruins and the terrible firestorm. My mother covered us with wet blankets and coats she found in a water tub.
We saw terrible things: cremated adults shrunk to the size of small children, pieces of arms and legs, dead people, whole families burnt to death, burning people ran to and fro, burnt coaches filled with civilian refugees, dead rescuers and soldiers, many were calling and looking for their children and families, and fire everywhere, everywhere fire, and all the time the hot wind of the firestorm threw people back into the burning houses they were trying to escape from.
I cannot forget these terrible details. I can never forget them.
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