Parts 16 to 18 of ?The Bright Side of the Doom“
My Hometown Is Being Destroyed +++ My Playground +++ We Survived by Firefly/KaJa

Parts 16 to 18 of ?The Bright Side of the Doom“

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Thomas Jannot

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发布日期: 2024年4月12日
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This factual novel is a prequel to ?The 18-Year-Old Who Wrote a Note and Disappeared“. It is based on real events that took place between 1933 and 1989 in central Germany.

Part 16: My Hometown Is Being Destroyed

Although our town was located between two large chemical plants, it had not yet been bombed. On an early-winter December day, there was an all-night air raid alert. ?? Continue Reading

Part 17: My Playground

Of all this I neither suspected nor knew. I was only a boy of about eleven years old when I sat on the board of the big sandbox on a genuinely nice May day and watched the children baking patties and building castles. ?? Continue Reading

Part 18: We Survived

I did not hear the explosion. A superhuman shock wave hurled me into an infinitely black nothingness. Then it was silent – deathly silent. After an eternity, the children screamed in agony. ?? Continue Reading

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