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It's now time, high time, strap into the time machine.

As we set off towards the next stop in my love letter to the world recorder microphone action.

It's 11 o'clock in the morning and the sky is filled all at once by the brightest flash of light,

then the thunder of a monstrous explosion, followed by a great blast like the sweeping

hand of an angry god. No one knows for sure how many were killed by that brightness and that thunder, but it's estimated

to have been over 100,000 men, women and children.

Endeveering to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future, I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world.

Morning, Neil. In the last episode it was 1945 and we were with the Russian army as they liberated

Auschwitz-Berkenau. Where are we this week?

Hello Paul and fellow time travellers. Yes, last week. Hello Paul and fellow time travelers. Yes last week we witnessed the

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