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Article: Dresden Architects Perfect Art of Restoring Without Replicating
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- The Washington Post
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- September 4, 2004
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When it comes to preserving, restoring or rebuilding historic
architecture, and then harmoniously juxtaposing the antique and the
new, Europeans continue to show the way.
One of the best examples of the fusion of historic and
contemporary design is a beautiful city battered by war almost 60
years ago: Dresden, Germany.
During the night of Feb. 14, 1945, several months before the end
of World War II, waves of Allied planes bombed Dresden and set it
ablaze, not because the city had any strategic military value, but
rather because the British and American high command believed,
according to one theory, that a terrifying assault on civilians would