“Suddenly all the lights went out. The people—mostly women and children—huddled together like sheep in the slaughterhouse, praying, crying and shrieking in terror. Some were mute with fear.” “It was an inferno,” recalled a German soldier who happened to be changing trains at Münster. “All around me I could hear injured people screaming who were trapped under demolished and burning houses. Almost all of the city center had been flattened to the ground and the main railway station had been heavily damaged.”
