Reminders of the war are everywhere. Bullet holes and pock marks scratched into walls. Memorials, Soviet and otherwise are commonplace.
Above the doorway of an anonymous building I spotted this. Its history in a timeline of charming pictures. When it was built, bombed and when it was substantially repaired.
If I was to go all deep, I would talk about how its symbolic and represents resilience and all that, but on the surface of it all it's just the documented history of a building that got caught up in a war. A series of pictures that defines the effect of the war on the city as well as the individuals who lived in it.
The dates in-between it's bombing and its repair reaches that of nearly a decade which gives a good indication of the extent of damage and how the war affected the city for all those years after.
I've been looking out for more of these in other German cities but this is the only one I have come across so far.
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