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nate_meurer on Oct 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The biggest churches in the world: Anglo-Norman el...

It's a miraculous gift to humanity that this thing survived the allied bombing in WWII. Much of the rest of the city was levelled.

nate_meurer on Oct 1, 2021 [–]

Too get an idea of just how close we came to losing this treasure, check out this photo of the city after the bombing:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Koeln_19...

Notice the bridge just a few hundred meters away.

emmelaich on Oct 2, 2021 | [–]

Some video exists too - George Stevens film..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwy8SzVmWGc

Köln from 2:40

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