August 2003 - Germany (page 2)
The Soviet war memorial at Seelow, on the border with Poland
The obligatory T-34 and a Katyusha rocket launcher
The Semper Opera House, Dresden
More beautiful baroque architecture
Most of Dresden was destroyed by the RAF in 1945
....It had no strategic importance and it was far too close to the end of the war for its destruction to have any use anyway...
However it topped the list of "most burnable german cities"... and so thousands of tons of explosives and incendiaries were dropped on it, creating a firestorm.
135,000 died, more than at Hiroshima
The magnificent Zwinger Palace
More of the Zwinger Palace
The empty space where the workers' huts at Buchenwald used to stand
The entrance to the Dora-Mittelbau museum. The original entrance was destroyed - this one is much smaller
Inside the Dora-Mittelbau complex, part of a V2 recovered from a flooded tunnel
Piles of abandoned gyroscopes
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