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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon May 29, 2017, 10:42 AM May 2017

Rebuilding of Dresden

Amazing photographs of the devastation of Dresden in WWII and its rebirth

http://mashable.com/2017/01/28/rebuilding-dresden/#HFfrxtYOQkq5

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Rebuilding of Dresden (Original Post) packman May 2017 OP

DURec leftstreet May 2017 #1

I have a colleague who lived over there... Historic NY May 2017 #2

Kurt Vonnegut introduced me to Dresden through a unique perspective Brother Buzz May 2017 #3

leftstreet

(36,108 posts)

1. DURec

Reply to packman (Original post)

Mon May 29, 2017, 10:54 AM

May 2017

Thanks for posting this!

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)

2. I have a colleague who lived over there...

Reply to packman (Original post)

Mon May 29, 2017, 10:59 AM

May 2017

she recounts that the "women of Dresden" were much responsible for the rebuilding. They collected the scraps and pieces that others deemed debris and were able to produce them, providing the details to reconstruct.

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)

3. Kurt Vonnegut introduced me to Dresden through a unique perspective

Reply to packman (Original post)

Mon May 29, 2017, 11:19 AM

May 2017

No one can dispute it changed his life forever.

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