“No Mercy in Magdeburg”: The Forgotten Massacre That Drenched a City in Fire and Blood. Content Warning.
May 20th, 1631.
The sun rose over the fortified German city of Magdeburg, unaware it would set over a charred ruin soaked in blood. Within hours, this prosperous Protestant stronghold would become a hellscape of mass slaughter, rape, and fire so devastating that only 5,000 of its 30,000 inhabitants would live to tell the tale.
