In the weeks that followed, another witness took up the task. Their writing, dated 25 September 1939, records not just bombardment, but the unmaking of a city — and the slow, disfiguring effect of constant death. What had begun in terror now settled into something colder, more enduring: a landscape ruled by ruin, and a silence thick with corpses.




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