In the spring of 1945, the Royal Air Force bombed Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen. On their way in, the English planes had to maintain a very low altitude in order not to be detected by the German military. This was particularly hard because of poor weather conditions. One of the planes did not make it. It crashed and exploded with its load of bombs in a residential area of Copenhagen. Some of the planes that followed mistook the heavy smoke from the crashing airplane to indicate the target and consequently dropped their load of bombs over the same neighborhood. A school was completely destroyed, as were several apartment buildings in central Copenhagen. A seventy-seven-year-old woman who was a schoolgirl at the time witnessed the collapse of apartment buildings next door:

Fifty-six years later, on September 11, 2001, this woman watches the collapse of the World Trade Center on television.