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...city's center was 75% destroyed. Gutted ruins and smoldering rubble were all that remained of Dresden's justly renowned Baroque and Renaissance gems. Close to 200 paintings by Dutch and Italian masters were lost. Last week 150,000 people sadly commemorated the 25th anniversary of the raid with speeches in the city's Altmarkt. At 10 p.m., the exact hour the bombing began, Dresden's church bells tolled a mournful peal...
Cultural Memorial. Today Dresden's artistic monuments are finally rising again. Despite critical food and housing shortages right after the war, the East German Communist government made the restoration of Germany's Florence a top priority. Ultimately, the project will cost $27.3 million...
After revisiting Dresden, TIME Correspondent George Taber reported: "Standing in the Theaterplatz, you see the rebuilt Hofkirche and the art gallery with the Zwinger Museum in the back. But you also see the bombed-out skeletons of the opera and the royal palace. It is not a morose but an ambivalent feeling one has in Dresden. The restoration of the old masterpieces is encouraging and uplifting, but the sight of the unreconstructed ones reminds one of the senselessness of the attack...
Then there is the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), whose majestic 310-ft. dome once dominated the center of Dresden. Like Hiroshima's Industrial Promotion Hall, it will be left in ruins, a mute reminder of the thought expressed by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his Dresden novel, Slaughterhouse 5: "There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre...
...this seemingly pointless air raid? In his history of World War II, Churchill argues somewhat dubiously that Dresden was a "center of communications of Germany's Eastern Front." The official Royal Air Force war history says the bombing was necessary to disrupt the German retreat before the onrushing Red Army. The U.S. State Department has said that it was in response to Stalin's request for "increased aerial support." British Historian David Irving, maintains, however, that the attack was a purely political act, designed "to impress the Soviet delegation" after the Yalta talks on postwar political problems...