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Article: DRESDEN BUILDS A FUTURE GERMAN CITY RECONSTRUCTS ITS DEMOLISHED PAST
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2000
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"The skyline was intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and
absurd. It looked like a Sunday school picture of heaven."'
Kurt Vonnegut
"Slaughterhouse Five"
DRESDEN, Germany - When you walk from the east bank of the River
Elbe across the Augustus Bridge toward the Old Town of Dresden,
you're following in the footsteps of Goethe and Napoleon. But,
impressive as it is, the view you see isn't the famous one that
delighted them.
For more than two centuries the skyline of Dresden was one of the
wonders of Europe: a poem in stone. Then, on the night of Feb. 14,