| Joe Obenberger |
10-31-2015 01:55 PM |
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
(Post 20621699)
The movie was shot where I am - Wrocłlaw, Poland. We still have some shitty looking areas of town that can pass for east berlin :)
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Then I really want to go to Wrockaw and see it. This, of course, was Breslau when it was part of German Lower Silesia. If I am understanding you, Wrocklaw still has areas with World War II damage, which is interesting to me. When I read about your city earlier this year, all I saw was praise for the massive rebuilding, new architecture, beauty and clean lines of the city, nothing about anything old or any war damage.
In 1979, the US Army sent me to the Stuttgart area where I lived for three years. While most of the enormous bombing damage inflicted by the RAF and USAF was gone, and the rubble quietly dumped to build a huge, tall, memorial mountain in the woods (something like 80% of all the residential housing in Stuttgart had been destroyed in just a few raids) there were still large, mainly vacant tracts, that had been obliterated by the bombs. In particular, at the foot of Koenigstrasse, there was a red light district with low end bottle-joint strip clubs built in metal Quonset huts - you know, the curved roofs of corrugated metal - and many, many blocks that were just leveled between there and the ruins of a church at the Feursee. The metal huts were gone within a year, and checking online, I see the church has been restored and those blocks rebuilt. It always gave me a sense of connection to dramatic developments in world history to see those things - and it is fascinating to me that, in Berlin, while nearly all of the destruction has been rebuilt, one still sees the bullet holes on the Dom and on many other buildings of the Museum Insel - and that no attempt is really made to disguise all of the patching to restore war damage. It gave me a very peculiar feeling to open an old wooden door, with ancient brass plates, at Stuttgart's Bahnhoff, knowing that the door had been the same during the Thirties and Forties - and used every day in that era. It connected me to things that happened before I was born, but which dramatically shaped the world I lived in. |
