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Why We Need to Remember that War Is Hell

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Why We Need to Remember that War Is Hell

Pedro L. Gonzalez
Jan 12, 2020
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As British bombs fell on the German port city of Kiel, Karl Berchim scrambled with reckless self-abandon to usher as many women and children as he could into a schoolhouse that had been converted into a shelter. Berchim was a member of the Luftwaffe, the aerial warfare branch of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Just as he secured a group of civilians i…

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