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Author : Lea Rawls
language : en
Publisher: Photo Book
Release Date : 2019-01-31
Dresden Germany written by Lea Rawls and has been published by Photo Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-31 with Architecture categories.
Dresden is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the border with the Czech Republic.Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendor, and was once by personal union the family seat of Polish monarchs. The city was known as the Jewel Box, because of its baroque and rococo city center. The controversial American and British bombing of Dresden in World War II towards the end of the war killed approximately 25,000 people, many of whom were civilians, and destroyed the entire city centre. After the war restoration work has helped to reconstruct parts of the historic inner city, including the Katholische Hofkirche, the Zwinger and the famous Semper Oper.Since German reunification in 1990 Dresden is again a cultural, educational and political centre of Germany and Europe. The Dresden University of Technology is one of the 10 largest universities in Germany and part of the German Universities Excellence Initiative. The economy of Dresden and its agglomeration is one of the most dynamic in Germany and ranks first in Saxony. It is dominated by high-tech branches, often called "Silicon Saxony." The city is also one of the most visited in Germany with 4.3 million overnight stays per year. The royal buildings are among the most impressive buildings in Europe. Main sights are also the nearby National Park of Saxon Switzerland, the Ore Mountains and the countryside around Elbe Valley and Moritzburg Castle. The most prominent building in the city of Dresden is the Frauenkirche. Built in the 18th century, the church was destroyed during World War II. The remaining ruins were left for 50 years as a war memorial, before being rebuilt between 1994 and 2005.According to the Hamburgische Weltwirtschafts institut (HWWI) and Berenberg Bank in 2017, Dresden has the fourth best prospects for the future of all cities in Germany.Dresden is one of the greenest cities in all of Europe, with 63% of the city being green areas and forests.Like many places in Eastern parts of Germany, Dresden has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb), with significant continental influences due to its inland location. Because of its location on the banks of the Elbe, into which some water sources from the Ore Mountains flow, flood protection is important. Large areas are kept free of buildings to provide a flood plain. Along with its twin city Coventry in England, Dresden was one of the first two cities to pair with a foreign city after the Second World War.Dresden is also home to several important art collections, world-famous musical ensembles, and significant buildings from various architectural periods, many of which were rebuilt after the destruction of the Second World War.Although Dresden is often said to be a Baroque city, its architecture is influenced by more than one style. Other eras of importance are the Renaissance and Historism, as well as the contemporary styles of Modernism and Postmodernism.Dresden has some 13 000 listed cultural monuments and eight districts under general preservation orders.
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Author : Alan Russell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-04
Dresden written by Alan Russell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-04 with History categories.
On 13 February 1945 Dresden, one of the most beautiful and historic cities of Europe, was destroyed by British and American air raids. This book is the first comprehensive history in the English language of this important cultural and historical centre. The book traces the city's evolution from 1206 to its great baroque period under Augustus the Strong, and from the bombing to the present day. The story of Dresden supplies the reader with unique insights into the collapse of the old monarchic order, the resistance of citizens to the Nazi regime, as well as the reaction of the Church and the rise and fall of the GDR. It describes the post-war replanning of the city, from its ideological reshaping under Communism to the liberation of ideas and energies after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Experts in their fields tell the story of Dresden's great musical, artistic, architectural, literary and theatrical traditions, which are further illuminated by a series of personal memoirs from eye-witness accounts in 1945 to contemporary reflections by Lord Menuhin and others. Heavily illustrated and complete with a foreword from the Duke of Kent, Dresden: A City Reborn is an important text for all students of German history and art history.
Vladimir Putin And Dresden Germany The Genesis Of Myth Making
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Author : Marques Vickers
language : en
Publisher: Marquis Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-17
Vladimir Putin And Dresden Germany The Genesis Of Myth Making written by Marques Vickers and has been published by Marquis Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Author and Photographer Marques Vickers examines a propaganda story introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin crediting himself with single-handedly defusing a hostile East German crowd intent on ransacking the Dresden KGB offices in 1989. Vickers’ book “Vladimir Putin and Dresden, Germany: The Genesis of Myth Making”, recounts the narrative, first related in Putin’s published memoirs First Person (2000) and later embellished in a 2009 broadcast via a Russian national television documentary. Between 1985 and 1990, Putin was stationed as a KGB officer in Dresden, Germany, the third largest city of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was officially titled as a consular officer, but most scrutinizing Western observers have concurred that his energies were directed towards recruiting spies and siphoning out information regarding West German high technology industries. Other media sources have conjectured that he commanded an investigative team with the East German Stasi police that investigated political crime within the GDR. On the evening of December 5, 1989, a large crowd (speculated at 15,000 people) reportedly surrounded the Dresden Stasi prison. They then entered the facility overwhelming the outnumbered guards. The compound was located across the road from Putin’s KGB bureau. The event occurred one month following the fall of the Berlin Wall. That same evening, Putin elaborated that a faction of the crowd descended upon the KGB offices. In First Person, Putin elaborated that he verbally confronted and defused the crowd’s hostile intentions by persuasion. Their intention was to ransacking the KGB compound. In a 2009 Russian television documentary, a modified version indicated that he brandished a pistol and threatened to shoot anyone trespassing into the facility. The documentary account accentuated the menacing conditions and heightened Putin’s heroics. The size of crowd has never been determined. The incident was not published at the time either. Two cited crowd participants confirmed the story over twenty years later, but their credibility has never been publicly authenticated. Russian media has integrated this encounter prominently into their character construction of Vladimir Putin. Did the incident actually occur? There are significant reasons for doubt. Putin’s tenure in Dresden and intimate view of the GDR’s collapse has been acknowledged as an influential contributing factor to his hard-line and aggressive foreign policy. His conclusions regarding the momentum of change a unified crowd can provoke has prompted his own tight internal controls within Russia. The 102-page book features over 100 photographs of the Dresden KGB bureau, Stasi prison facility including a decrepit Russian interrogation wing, the former nearby residence of the Putin family, and renovated core of Dresden’s center city. Vickers addresses the background, evolution and reconstruction of Dresden since the Russian Cold War occupation between 1945-1989. The author visited Dresden during the summer of 1990 when the city’s once esteemed monuments and architecture languished in neglect and decay under the Soviet Occupation. The contemporary city center no longer resembles the wreckage that Putin once knew during his residence. German reunification has completely upgraded and polished Dresden to aesthetic preeminence. The city was formerly known as the Florence on the River Elbe and the jewel of Prussian Empire aesthetics. Dresden stunning Baroque architecture has been rescued due to German taxation subsidies intended towards eastern rehabilitation. Vickers, in his research was unable to confirm or adequately contest Putin’s account of 1989 events. Understanding Putin’s Dresden experience, however, has proven an excellent window into the thinking process of one of the world’s most complex and perplexing national leaders.
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Author : Frederick Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-03
Dresden written by Frederick Taylor and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Political Science categories.
The definitive story of the shocking and controversial Allied bombing of Dresden 'In narrative power and persuasion, he has paralleled in Dresden what Antony Beevor achieved in Stalingrad' Independent on Sunday 'Well-researched and unpretentious ... fascinating ... Taylor skilfully interweaves various personal accounts of the impact of the raids' Guardian At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been dropped on the unprotected city. At least 25,000 inhabitants died in the terrifying firestorm and thirteen square miles of the city's historic centre, including incalculable quantities of treasure and works of art, lay in ruins. In this portrait of the city, its people, and its still-controversial destruction, Frederick Taylor has drawn on archives and sources only accessible since the fall of the East German regime, and talked to Allied aircrew and survivors, from members of the German armed services and refugees fleeing the Russian advance to ordinary citizens of Dresden.
Dresden
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Author : Frederick Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-04-10
Dresden written by Frederick Taylor and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-10 with History categories.
Published to coincide with the bombing, this dramatic and controversial account completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany’s ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England. Now, Frederick Taylor’s groundbreaking research offers a completely new examination of the facts, and reveals that Dresden was a highly-militarized city actively involved in the production of military armaments and communications concealed beneath the cultural elegance for which the city was famous. Incorporating first-hand accounts, contemporaneous press material and memoirs, and never-before-seen government records, Taylor documents unequivocally the very real military threat Dresden posed, and thus altering forever our view of that attack.
The Destruction Of Dresden
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Author : David John Cawdell Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Destruction Of Dresden written by David John Cawdell Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Dresden (Germany) categories.
135.000 dræbtes ved 7 døgns konventionel bombning af Dresden. Atombomben mod Hiroshima dræbte ca. 71.000.
Return To Dresden
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Author : Maria Ritter
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2004-02-13
Return To Dresden written by Maria Ritter and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A clinical psychologist and Dresden survivor confronts national guilt for theNazi past.
The Dresden Gallery
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Author : Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
The Dresden Gallery written by Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
Court Culture In Dresden
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Author : H. Watanabe-O'Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-03-07
Court Culture In Dresden written by H. Watanabe-O'Kelly and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-07 with History categories.
This is the first cultural history of Baroque Dresden, the capital of Saxony and the most important Protestant territory in the Empire from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly shows how the art patronage of the Electors fits into the intellectual climate of the age and investigates its political and religious context. Lutheran church music and architecture, the influence of Italy, the cabinet of curiosities and the culture of collecting, alchemy, mining and early technology, official image-making and court theatre are some of the wealth of colourful subjects dealt with during the period 1553 to 1733.
Dresden Germany
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Author : B G Preston
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-02-12
Dresden Germany written by B G Preston and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-12 with Travel categories.
Dresden, Germany and the Saxony Region 1st Edition - February 2024 Dresden is something of a miracle city that has risen from the ashes, literally. This city was largely destroyed near the end of WWII and, as a visitor, you would never know this as so many of the beautiful, Baroque-era buildings have been completely rebuilt. As a visitor, you can marvel at an incredible array of palaces, a cathedral, and other architectural marvels and do so all within an easy stroll within the delightful Old Town area. This guide provides an overview of Dresden and the leading points of interest both in the heart of the city and in the neighboring New Town area as well. In addition, guidance is provided on enjoyable day trips, such as a tour of the Saxon Switzerland National Park or tours to a notable porcelain factory. The goal is to provide you with a good understanding of this city both prior to and during your visit. Help is included on where to stay and even the local transportation system. Numerous graphs, maps, and photographs are included to help with orienting you to Dresden and Saxony.