Blown Up on Hindenburg Bridge

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Hi i'm writing about a story that my nan recently told me about her brother. she told me that her brother Hans Bayer was escorting an italian person accross the hindenburg bridge now called the deutzer bridge. she told me that her family had begged him to not go out on to the bridge knowing that something bad may happen to him. Because the american soldiers were on one side of the bridge and the germans were in retreat on the other. And that as he began to cross the germans destroyed the bridge to halt the americans advance. they had no concern for who was on the bridge my nan said that she witnessed it and the german soldiers had blown the bridge with trams crossing it, horses, many people were all blown up. she said that an entire train crashed into the river rhein below. she said that his body was never found only the remains of his bike.

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