Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror.

Dresden was a fervently loyal Nazi stronghold ... The idea was controversial both for its daunting expense and the ruins' strong symbolism. "People were used to the atmosphere of broken stones ...

Russian Defense Ministry compared US coalition bombing of Raqqa to destruction of Dresden in 1945. "Raqqa has repeated the fate of Dresden of 1945, which was erased in the British-American ...

Dresden was a stop on one of those multi-city ... However, it was destroyed by Allied bombing of the city during World War II ...

The reconstruction of the iconic Baroque church began in 1993, led by the Dresden Trust, of which Edward is the royal patron. The church was left in ruins as a memorial to the conflict for more ...

"I found people like that all over the world, in Dresden, in Hiroshima, in spite of the fact that their cities were in ruins, they really had dedicated themselves to planting these trees," he says.