I spent the weekend in Saxony (Dresden, to be precise), but was disappointed not to see a single person wearing or carrying a
seax (the type of knife that gave the Saxons their name).
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aviva_m facepalmed when I told her this, but
papersky would understand, I feel sure...
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Date: 2012-09-04 09:33 am (UTC)So, how was Dresden? We had family friends who emigrated from there after the war.
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Date: 2012-09-04 05:10 pm (UTC)*groans*
So, how was Dresden? We had family friends who emigrated from there after the war.
Very sensible place to emigrate from, as it was in the Soviet sector, which became East Germany. (There was a big communist mural I saw on the side of one building.)
The city centre is full of historic old buildings which were completely destroyed during the firestorm created by Allied bombing during the War, and then rebuilt exactly as they had been afterwards, with the exception of some big churches, about one of which the East German authorities said "a socialist city does not need Gothic churches". One of them, the Frauenkirche, was rebuilt just in the last few years, which means the sandstone it's built from is still yellow, not blackened from pollution. The surrounding area was also rebuilt in the last few years, exactly as it had been, and it all looks so squeaky clean now it looks like Disneyland. Apparently the Dresdeners aren't happy about this, but give it fifty years, and it'll look lived in, like the rest of the city.
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Date: 2012-09-06 08:00 am (UTC)