Report from the disaster area: Torrential rain devastates western Germany
By DW
19 July 2021 |
8:41 am
At first, it seemed like nothing more than a harmless daylong rain — but it never stopped, it just kept pouring. DW's Christoph Hasselbach, who lives in Germany's worst-hit region, reports.
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