This educational feature from Der Adler's French-language edition explains, through original diagrams by illustrator Trester, the physics of blast-wave 'pressure and suction' produced by exploding aerial bombs. Written by Richard Schulz as an answer to a pressing wartime question, the article walks readers through how a detonation's shock wave alternately compresses and then rarefies the surrounding air, and how building damage changes with distance from the blast. Aimed at a civilian population increasingly subject to Allied bombing raids, it exemplifies the magazine's role in framing complex wartime realities for a general readership. Project: 218709