Yesterday the dome was put in place on Dresden's Frauenkirche. Their website is (understandably) slow at the moment, but it might be worth waiting on to see some views of the completed reconstruction. It's impressive.
I should be saying something about the significance of the recreated wholeness of this building in the context of the [left's?] new understanding of Allied bombing and German victimhood, but I don't have a thesis yet. Not an easy thing to think through, certainly.
Some related resources: Charles Maier's H-Net review of Jörg Friedrich's Der Brand—and the whole H-Net forum on WWII bombing.
[Update: Ionarts has responded with a nice overview of the history and some good image links.]
Posted by Heather at June 23, 2004 10:14 AM
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