Face to faith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1604010,00.html
The British contribution to the rebuilding of Dresden's cathedral is an
important symbol of reconciliation, says Paul Oestreicher
Saturday October 29, 2005
The Guardian
On the night of February 13 1945 the RAF killed at least 35,000 people
and reduced one of Europe's finest cultural centres to a smouldering
graveyard; the fact that a day later, weakened by the intense heat,
Dresden's Lutheran cathedral, the Frauenkirche, collapsed into a heap
of rubble was hardly news. But those blackened stones, with just two
jagged pillars left standing, became a place of pilgrimage in the
course of the next half century.
Paul Oestreicher
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/42956deecd3ae7d0
Dresden
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/df156a623e53f8a3
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