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In the early 1940s, my late mother was a kid from the German heavy industry Ruhr area. Her entire school fled from the allied bombing attacks (bombing of civilian targets was ugly custom in WW II) to the Baltic Sea coast. One beach day, several members of her class were caught in a strong current. Mom made it to shore by herself, but the teachers had to get in and rescue pupils that had drifted very far away. This was one of the terrifying stories mom occasionally told. @marcas