Coventry and Dresden celebrate a historic partnership - preview
Paul Oestreicher describes the commemoration of the bombing
To be sent to Coventry is to pass a sign welcoming you to the City of Peace It all goes back to the night of 14 November 1940 when the Luftwaffe proudly – to use the word specially coined by Hitler’s air chief, Göring – ‘coventrated’ a medieval city and its cathedral, killing nearly a thousand people but missing most of its heavy industry Six weeks later at Christmas, standing in the cathedral ruins at a BBC microphone, provost Dick Howard preached, to the consternation of many, about forgiveness When this conflict was over, the enemies of today would tomorrow need to build ‘a kinder, more Christlike sort of world Hard as we might find it,’ he said, ‘we must put away all thoughts of revenge’ Of course that’s not how things turned out A little over four years later, in a single horrific night of bombing, many thousands of people were to die in Dresden
Paul Oestreicher
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