In 1944 Kurt Vonnegut was a U.S. prisoner of war in Dresden Germany which was a University town of no military significance. He was captured with 15,000 other U.S. soldiers by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge. Within days after he arrived in Dresden, a German Officer excitedly ordered Vonnegut and a small group of his fellow POWs into a dark cellar within an old slaughterhouse. The doors were closed, candles lit, and soon the drone of thousands of British and American bomber engines were heard. Bombs fell, making dust fall from the rafters of their slaughterhouse bomb shelter. When morning came, and the American soldiers and their German guards emerged from the shelter, Dresden was gone. Kurt spent the next few days dragging corpses from basements of houses, and putting them in large piles so German soldiers could burn them. This experience led Kurt to write the novel Slaughterhouse Five. This novel is considered to be one of the best novels of the Twentieth Century. This horrendous experience motivated Kurt Vonnegut to speak and write against war for the rest of his noble life. Kurt died in 2007. He was a great American and will always be, a hero of mine.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:48:53 +0000
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