Rocket explosion on the Heilbronner Waldheide: A US soldier who was involved at the time spoke for the first time

The scene of the accident on the afternoon of January 11, 1985. Pictures like these were kept secret for a long time. Photo: Günter Baumann

When Daniel David Harstin kneels down on the forest heath and takes off his baseball cap on this sweltering hot day in August 2018, he doesn’t just do it to rest – or to get a better picture of himself for the cell phone camera. Rather, the 62-year-old is a deeply religious person, he is even a Methodist pastor. “The return to Heilbronn, to Fort Redleg,” he reports these days via video link to the Heilbronner Voice, “that was very moving,” especially when he

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