into his works, Vonnegut felt connected to each of his books (Klinkowitz 15).
One of the events that most influenced his later work occurred when Vonnegut was interned as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany in World War II (Vonnegut 61). After his capture by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 (Petro III 1), he was imprisoned in a slaughterhouse, deep underground, with five other American Prisoners of War. In that place he withstood the allied bombing of Dresden in 1945. This was what influenced him to write his most famous n
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