The bombing happened on February 13-14, 1945; the British and Americans dropped explosives while flying by the city which was non-militarized. Most of the people killed were civilians, and it was almost twice as many people killed from the first atomic bomb. This caused over one hundred Americans become prisoners of war during the Battle of the Bulge and Kurt Vonnegut was one of them (Historical Context). His job for weeks after the bombing was to pick up the remains all around the city, that scared him for the rest of his life. But while he was in the war his mother committed suicide, so the war was more than a traumatic experience for Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut
The bombing happened on February 13-14, 1945; the British and Americans dropped explosives while flying by the city which was non-militarized. Most of the people killed were civilians, and it was almost twice as many people killed from the first atomic bomb. This caused over one hundred Americans become prisoners of war during the Battle of the Bulge and Kurt Vonnegut was one of them (Historical Context). His job for weeks after the bombing was to pick up the remains all around the city, that scared him for the rest of his life. But while he was in the war his mother committed suicide, so the war was more than a traumatic experience for Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut