Today is, of course, September 11.  We all know what happened on this date in 2001, and we mourn for the lost.  Seventy years ago today, on September 11, 1944, the city we now live in was destroyed.  As many as 12,000 were killed and 60,000 left homeless in a 20 minute period.  Darmstadt was one of 5 cities in Germany to have casualties of more then 10,000 in a single day. September 11 brings two very sad reminder for us.

(If you use Google Chrome to open the link below, you can have it translate the article into English).

http://www.echo-online.de/region/bergstrasse/heppenheim/Zehntausend-Tote-in-einer-Nacht;art1245,5419965