Many Years Ago Back In 1945

ByBERLIN — Germans on Thursday marked 75 years since Allied bombs destroyed the eastern city of Dresden, with national leaders emphasizing atonement and the universal mourning of the war’s victims even as the far right has promoted a revisionist view of the Nazi state.Images of Dresden’s skeletal, burned-out buildings have become synonymous with the ravages of war. The inferno devastated the city, the capital of the state of Saxony, resulting in temperatures so hot that they caused the stone dome of the Church of Our Lady to collapse. It was rebuilt after reunification and.But in Germany, the attack also sowed the seeds of debate over victims and responsibility, one that has taken on new meaning as a resurgent far right in the country’s east promotes a revisionist history of World War II.Mourning all of the war’s victims has been central to Germany’s remembrance efforts since reunification in 1990. Like many of the Jews who survived the Holocaust, the number of people who remember the inferno that engulfed the city are dying out.Ursula Elsner was 14 when the bombs fell. In an interview with, she recalled her mother dragging her and her brother out of bed to hide in the cellar as the sirens wailed.

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When the house caught fire, they emerged and spent hours clinging to a lamppost as the hot winds of the firestorm raged around them, she said.Now 89, she said the anniversary should serve as a warning against war, not be misused for political gain.“This day belongs to us,” she said.