Roman Clodia’s Reviews > The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich > Status Update
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'...writers and film-makers including Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, Billy Wilder, Humphrey Jennings and Goronwy Rees went to Germany in the summer of 1945 aiming to help rehabilitate the country'
— Sep 27, 2021 02:26PM
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Roman Clodia
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'Visiting a London exhibition of waxworks illustrating German atrocities, he [George Orwell] was sickened by captions inviting people to 'Come inside and see real Nazi tortures, flogging, crucifixion, gas chambers'.'
— Sep 27, 2021 11:50AM
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'Some 796 bombers visited Dresden that night creating a firestorm that eliminated much of the city.'
— Sep 26, 2021 04:21PM
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'To arrive in Germany in the final months of the Second World War was to confront an apocalypse.'
— Sep 25, 2021 02:50PM
