Small story, full story and before/after pictures in the link:
"For centuries, Nürnberg was renowned for her beauty and dignity. Her narrow lanes were trod by some of the greatest people in history, and she breathed life into many of the finest craftsmen, musicians, artists and scientists ever born. Truly a cradle of European culture, her glorious churches, grand residences, ancient walls and old castle quietly rested by the banks of the river, enchanting and fragrant with history long before the dawn of twentieth century. Nürnberg posed no critical threat and her ancient town center certainly had absolutely nothing of military significance. However, in the bombing campaigns instituted at the end of the war, when defenses were shattered or minimal, cultural targets became a goal, especially if deemed “idealogical centers.” This is when a campaign of sheer vengeance commenced, and the once heavily defended targets were easy prey.
Now, every exquisite detail painted by the ages in this glorious city lay in blurred, gray dust, lost in an act of completely unnecessary vengeance and wanton violence. In just one 53 minute raid, over 6,000 “blockbuster” high explosive bombs and over a million firebombs were dropped on the heart of Nürnberg, needlessly destroying over six centuries of history in less than an hour."
guy_in_graphicssays
Fuck around, get smoked
Spooms2010says
One of the many, many casualties of war.
(I quietly think my father flew in this raid as a radio operator in a Lancaster bomber! Eeeek!)
Swayze_Trainsays
> "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." – Arthur "Bomber" Harris
Strydwolf says
Additional photos of the interior
Alternative angles
The Courtyard
Destroyed Pellehaus, 1945
"Reconstructed" building
Recently (2018) reconstructed courtyard, financed only through private citizen donations
DutchMitchell says
Detailed description of Numenberg and it’s destruction: http://www.revisionist.net/nuremberg-bombing.html
Small story, full story and before/after pictures in the link:
"For centuries, Nürnberg was renowned for her beauty and dignity. Her narrow lanes were trod by some of the greatest people in history, and she breathed life into many of the finest craftsmen, musicians, artists and scientists ever born. Truly a cradle of European culture, her glorious churches, grand residences, ancient walls and old castle quietly rested by the banks of the river, enchanting and fragrant with history long before the dawn of twentieth century. Nürnberg posed no critical threat and her ancient town center certainly had absolutely nothing of military significance. However, in the bombing campaigns instituted at the end of the war, when defenses were shattered or minimal, cultural targets became a goal, especially if deemed “idealogical centers.” This is when a campaign of sheer vengeance commenced, and the once heavily defended targets were easy prey.
Now, every exquisite detail painted by the ages in this glorious city lay in blurred, gray dust, lost in an act of completely unnecessary vengeance and wanton violence. In just one 53 minute raid, over 6,000 “blockbuster” high explosive bombs and over a million firebombs were dropped on the heart of Nürnberg, needlessly destroying over six centuries of history in less than an hour."
guy_in_graphics says
Fuck around, get smoked
Spooms2010 says
One of the many, many casualties of war.
(I quietly think my father flew in this raid as a radio operator in a Lancaster bomber! Eeeek!)
Swayze_Train says
> "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." – Arthur "Bomber" Harris
New_Born_Infant says
Fucking hell, what a loss