Dresden was bombed to complete rubble in World War II, 1945. The skyline disappeared. For 40 years, the ruins of this church in particular, Frauenkirche, were used as a war memorial and a site of peaceful demonstrations against the East German government.
After the reunification of Germany, they rebuilt a lot of Dresden's beautiful Baroque buildings exactly as they had been. After 20 years of construction, Dresden rose again.Read more