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Twenty-two minutes that is.

Firestorm Pforzheim. Thanks to the story from DW.

Hamburg I have heard of. Dresden I have heard of. Tokyo I have heard of.  Pforzheim I had never heard of!

"Pforzheim: the Dresden nobody knows about"

Saturation bombing of Pforzheim with high-explosive and incendiary creating a fire-storm a city of tens of thousand obliterated from the face of the earth. All occurring in twenty-two minutes!

"According to official statistics, 17,600 people died, and tens of thousands of others were injured. The market square and old town area were destroyed and completely depopulated. In the entire city, over 80 percent of the architecture that existed in 1945 was defaced, making Pforzheim, proportionally speaking, the worst instance of destruction at the end of WWII in Europe."

Dresden and Pforzheim instance of allied atrocity during the Second World War? Gratuitous and excessive violence disproportionate in nature?

NOBODY knows of Pforzheim? Until NOW!

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