Thesis: In Stephen Spendler’s account of the German city of Cologne, he describes a city and a people devastated by the war and struggling to make any sort of recovery
I. Few buildings remain habitable, most are empty
II. Thousands walk through the rubble that used to be the “hub of the Rhineland, with a great shopping center, acres of plate-glass, restaurants, a massive business street”
III. “The external destruction is so great that it cannot be healed and the surrounding life of the rest of the country cannot flow into and resuscitate the city”
IV. The people do not resemble residents, merely wanderers
V. The unscathed cathedral gives the city hope
VI. The destruction is a remarkable achievements of modern society in cooperation between several nations
VII. The city, held together by numerous civilizations for centuries, has died
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