DresDe commemorates the 80th anniversary of the allied bombing of World War II

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Dresde commemorated the 80th anniversary of allied bombing of the city in World War II. This annual event has great meaning for the inhabitants of Dresde and for the Germans in general. “My grandmother was ten years old at that time And he took out his little sister on a wheelbarrow through a fire storm. He told me many things about that time, “explains one of the attendees to the acts.” We are actually in Berlin, but we come every year and it seems very, very well that there are so many people here. And we must not forget what happened here, “said a woman who traveled from the German capital to attend the event.

On February 13, 1945, the Allied forces bombed Dresde for three days, killing 25,000 people and causing fires that swept the city center. The Duke of Kent, Prince Eduardo, attended King Carlos. Eduardo participated in a human chain around the old town, while hundreds of people took hand to form a protective ring in memory of the deceased. Eduardo, primo 89 years of the late Queen Elizabeth II And the older active member of the Royal Family, traveled to Germany on Thursday to participate in the scheduled events.

He described the “pain we feel in our hearts” because of the “terrible destruction and loss of lives” during the official commemorative act in the City of Dresde. Eduardo talked about his desire and commitment to cure war wounds and greeted the reconciliation of the United Kingdom with the people of Dresde in recent years. During his stay in the city, Prince Eduardo also visited the DresDe frauenkirche, rebuilt and inaugurated in 2005 after having been destroyed during the bombing campaign. The reconstruction of the emblematic baroque church It began in 1993, under the direction of Dresden Trust, of which Eduardo is real patron.

The Church was in ruins as a commemorative monument of the conflict for more than half a century, which, for some, represented a symbol of the aggression of the Allied forces.