The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II
by
Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 1993
In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen...