My grandparents apartment was nearly destroyed by bomb jettisoned over Amsterdam by an allied bomber on its return to UK. Have to get the photo, quite amazing that no one died. A large hole but it didn't detonate for some reason.
Gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Stan Halpin Sent: December 8, 2012 7:04 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Bomb sight A view from the other side of the channel: When I was five-six, (1950) my family finished up a three-year stint in Northern Greece and headed back to the States. A three-week tour through Europe, then a boat back home. One of my vivid memories from that trip was seeing block after block of damaged buildings in Germany and asking my father what had happened to them. "They were bombed during the war and haven't been able to rebuild yet." Many years later, my major advisor from graduate school published a personal memoir of sorts ["into the Fire by Siegfried Streufert]. His father was one of the anti-Nazi senators who went back home to Northern Germany in the mid 1930's (?) and was then part of the resistance. Siegfried tells of what it was like as a child living under the threat of bombers, and then later the frustration that the Allied troops didn't understand that many Germans saw them as liberators, not as conquerors. Bob, the graphic you shared really brings back those stories and is a reminder that this wasn't a sometimes thing, but that everyone was at risk in every neighborhood for months and months and months. A horrible way to live and a testament to universal stupidity. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
