This study has distinguished between three discursive fields or ‘vectors’ of air war memory. While such a model is useful for situating different responses to the human and material impact of indiscriminate bombing within their respective traditions and contexts, it is important to remember that, in practice, the various discourses could frequently overlap. For example, the bishop of Kurhesse-Waldeck, in an address on 22 October 1951, commemorated the ‘Kassel victims of the bombing’ but emphasised that mourning extended to the ‘end [of] our city’ as well. In the same speech, he also referred to the people who had first-hand experiences of the ‘dreadful night’ and were compelled ‘over and over to tell about the most dreadful [experiences] of all the horrors’ that they had gone through.