RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

--- Chris Rossi <rossi AT webslingerZ.com> wrote:
> James Hepler wrote:
> > That was a good comeback and all, but Dresden is a
> > city, and there were no concentration camps in
> > Dresden.
> > 
> It was completely razed to the ground, though, in a
> few days time, over 
> the course of 100s of British and American bombing
> runs.  The 
> destruction was far more complete than Nagasaki or
> Hiroshima and was 
> achieved by way of thousands of conventional
> munitions.  There was 
> little military present in Dresden and the city did
> not play any kind of 
> critical military or industrial role for the 3rd
> reich.  It had been up 
> to that time, though, a center of art and culture
> for eastern Europe. 
> In addition to the tremendous loss of civilian life,
> an enormous 
> artistic and architectural patrimony was lost
> forever.
> 
> Oops, sorry!


It's OK!  It's also a beacon of political change, one
of many staging grounds of the peaceful revolution
that brought an end to the GDR.  Students in 1989
gathered regularly at the ruins of the Frauenkirche,
oldest church in Dresden, for candlelight vigils and
peaceful protests.  Even now Dresden struggles with
the effort to rebuild this centuries old church.

Hep

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