Word: neunkirchen
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...that dreadful roar echoed the entire length of the upper Rhine, and had been heard in five countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland. It marked the death of 62 people, injury to over 1,000, total destruction of a gas tank, iron works, benzol plant, all belonging to the Neunkirchen Iron Works, and most of the industrial section of Neunkirchen, a manufacturing city of 40,000 souls in the Saar Valley...
...like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station blew up it seemed no louder than a handclap...