05/29/2026
The cathedral survived the multi day fire bombing by British and American airplanes. It is said that the destruction of one of Germany’s most beautiful cities was to pay the Germans back for the destruction of London and other cities in England. By this point that, the N**i regime was only months away from completely collapsing.
It was when the fires burned so hot and so strongly that the column inside the church shattered in the 1500⁰ + temperatures, and the structure fell into a pile of jumbled stones. It would lay there fifty years as a reminder of what capitalism and the West had done.
From 1994 - 2005, the Frauenkirche was painstakingly rebuilt. When originally built, many believed it would not stand. Here, it was being built a second time. The dark stones you see are the original stones in their original locations that had been salvaged from the ruins.
For me, this place stands as a monument for what extreme politics can do. At these edges, there is no difference in the perversion of freedom and humanity. The only difference is who is in charge of the capital. When we stop treating all people with humanity, we lose our own.
