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State & history

The ruins of which English city's cathedral, bombed in 1940, became a symbol of reconciliation with Germany after the Second World War?

  • A Liverpool
  • B Bristol
  • ✕ Plymouth Your answer
  • ✓ Coventry

Not quite.

Coventry Cathedral was destroyed in a German air raid in November 1940. Its ruins were kept beside the new cathedral, which opened in 1962, and Coventry became a centre for peace and reconciliation, including links with Dresden.

Source: Coventry Cathedral: Reconciliation; Imperial War Museums

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