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Reports and photos from the Frauenkirche Dresden official opening 30 Oct 2005 Written by Aidan O'Rourke2005-10-29 The Frauenkirche Dresden was destroyed in the terrible air raids on Dresden in early 1945. It's said that the church may have stood for a day or so, the stones still glowing from the heat of the firestorm, before crashing to the ground. Later that year, the Soviets took over Dresden and reconstruction slowly began. The Frauenkirche, however, remained a pile of rubble, left as it was, partly as a memorial to the ravages of war, and partly because the East German Communist authorities didn't have the means - or the will - to rebuild it.
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