Hamburg. The fire sparked by the bombing of the city causes at least 40,000 deaths and outrages the German population, but it’s the manner in which these deaths occur that is most shocking. Stories of raging infernos, hurricane-force winds, and blizzards of sparks that set hair and clothes ablaze. Traditional history is simply not equipped to describe what Nossack calls “Something else… the strangeness itself… the essentially impossible.”
