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1. Kurt Vonnegut was born November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
2. Completed his higher education at Cornell University.
3. After enlisting in the U.S Army, the armed forces sent him to Carnegie Mellon University to study engineering in 1943.
4. In 1944, Kurt Vonnegut was deployed on the behalf of the U.S Army to the European theater of War.
5. Kurt Vonnegut, participated in the Battle of the Bulge.
6. After the battle had finished, Kurt Vonnegut was taken prisoner and was sent to the Nazi occupied city of Dresden.
7. The U.S Air Force began firebombing the city Dresden. Kurt Vonnegut survived the bombings as he was underground in a meat locker making vitamins for the German Forces.
8. He Married his high school girlfriend and had three children.
9. His first Novel 'Player Piano' was published in 1952.
10.  One of Kurt Vonneguts most famous books 'Slaughter House 5' was published in 1969.
11. Kurt Vonnegut passed away on the 11th of April, 2007.

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Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut's Life Experiences

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Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut's Life Experiences

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Here are five quotes, throughout Kurt Vonnegut;s life:
1. "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice , i don't know what is".
2. "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt".
3. "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country".
4. "I want to stay as close to the edge as i can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kind of things you cant see from the center".
5. "Here we are trapped in the amber if the moment. There is no why".

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Below is a photo of Kurt Vonnegut, In Service with the United States Army.

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1. Gotz Bergander recalled from his experiences of the bombings "Dresden was completely unprotected. The flak had been withdrawn during the winter".
2. Gotz also recalled from his experience "Everything was quite for awhile, until we heard the bombers and the first explosions".
3. Gotz recalled the first bombs dropping as "It was as if ahuge noisy conveyor belt was rolling over us, a noise punctuated with detonations and tremors".
4. Gotz recalled his first encounter with the civilians of Dresden after the bombings as "People ran towards us totally distraught, smeared with ash and with wet blankets wrapped around their heads".
5. After the first two night attacks, witnesses heard civilians screaming "Everything gone, everything on fire".
6. Victor Gregg, recalled his experiences of the bombing as "Dropping thousands of incendiaries, along with the first bombs. A string would hit the ground in succession - like a drum roll - and the sky changed from a bright white to a dull red that danced before dying".
7. Victor Gregg, recalled having a bomb land near his building "Suddenly, a "Blockbuster" dropped outside our building, blowing in the whole wall. I was thrown nearly 50 feet and covered in brickwork and rubble".
8. Victor Gregg, recalled having left the building after the bombings began to die down "We stumbled along the remains of a wide avenue, flanked by fires and mountains of red-hot wreckage".
Links that i got my quotes from"
1. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/dresden-bombing-70-years-on-a-survivor-recalls-the-horror-he-witnessed-in-the-german-city-10042770.html
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http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1589

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Below, is an image of a British Mosquito aircraft, which was responsible for dropping the target indicators, which were to guide the bombers on target.

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Below, is an image of a statue of Martin Luther. This image is very powerful, as it shows that important buildings were destroyed int the process of the bombing campaign.

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The bombings of Dresden began in February of 1945, coming to end of World War 2. Prior to the bombings, Dresden as a city never had been targeted by Allied Forces, so the city was still unaffected by bombing campaigns. In Dresden, the Nazis had filled the minds of the population about the horrors and crimes that the allied forces had committed while over their advancement of Nazi-occupied Germany, so the citizens of Dresden were filled with fear. The Bombings of Dresden took place from the 13th of February to the 15th. Their was 350,000 citizens in Dresden at the time of the bombings. After the duration of the bombing campaign by allied forces, over 100,000 citizens were killed and nearly all of the city had been burned to the ground and in ruins. After the bombings, many historians questioned whether the bombing was really practical as the war was coming to an end and the loss of civilian life could have been avoided. At the time period, the atomic bomb had not been implemented in war, so the main form of wiping out large areas of enemy targets was through the practice of "area" or "saturation" bombing. The practice of saturation bombing was to cripple the enemy countries economy, break the morale of the German people and force an early surrender. The allies response to the bombing of Dresden stated that the intended purpose was to wipe out communication lines and also munition factories as well as important infrastructure that would fuel the German war machine. At the end of the bombing campaign, Dresden as a city was so badly affected by the result of the bombs, that only a very few of the original buildings were left to stand and the other building were in complete ruins. A handful of historic/important buildings such as the Dresden State Opera House and several fine churches were carefully rebuilt from the remains of the rubble and the rest of the city was slowly rebuilt with plain buildings. Kurt Vonnegut explained the events that he witnessed in Dresden in the book 'Slaughter House 5' stated "It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces that Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground."

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Below, is an image of a British Lancaster Bomber. The bomber is in the process of dropping high explosive ordnance on Dresden.

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Below, is an image of the bodies of the deceased people that were victims of the bombings. This shows the all out mass destruction of civilians and structural buildings.

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This image shows the wide scale destruction of Dresden. The result of this was caused by mass scale bombings by allied forces.

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This is an image of a women who was killed in the bombings while being in an air raid shelter. This goes to show that even innocent civilians were killed by the results of the bombings.