Trees remember from war.
- On 12 November 1944 the British bombed and sank the German Tirpitz in the Norwegian fjords, as seen in the photo.
Precisely, to prevent such attacks, the Germans used guns for almost two years to create an artificial cloud. This chemical cloud contained chlorosulphoric acid, a very corrosive substance.
Researchers at the University of Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, have now analyzed the growth rings of the trees in which the boat was anchored: In the years 1943 and 1944, the rings almost disappeared and the trees took 12 years to recover.
The damage of the Second World War is still unsuspected.
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