In July 1943, the Allies bombed Hamburg in an air-raid that 
went on for days. Much of the city was destroyed, including the Gothic St. Nikolai Church. Only some of the exterior walls remain, and the church spire.
We spent quite a long time here. The basement of the former building houses a museum with photos of Hamburg in the aftermath of that attack. Some of the images reminded us of 9/11, but we had to multiply that many times, as many of Germany’s cities suffered similar fates.
The lower photo is from what was a rear wall of the church. The figure in the foreground is a statue of a person sitting; he holds his head in his hands.
