![]() Later he covered the 1970s Revolution in Portugal, and worked also in France and Switzerland. He served as a Reuters Correspondent in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, when he was the sole Western correspondent in East Berlin and covered Prague after the Soviet invasion. A modern languages graduate of the University of London, he worked for over 30 years in various European countries and now lives in Oxford. His father is British and his mother a refugee from Nazi Germany. ![]() Marcus Ferrar, author and trustee of several voluntary associations, was born and brought up in Britain. ![]() This talk tells how reconciliation was achieved. In 2004, a giant golden cross built by the son of a British pilot who bombed Dresden in 1945 was lifted on to the city's historic Frauenkirche in what the British ambassador to Germany, Sir Peter Torry, called ‘a symbol of reconciliation’. Yet today they are welcomed there warmly. The bombing was hugely controversial at the time and since, and for many years, British people visiting Dresden encountered hostility. In February 1945, the British Royal Air Force destroyed the beautiful old centre of Dresden, and set alight a fire storm which killed up to 25,000 people. ![]() ![]() One of Europe’s foremost cultural centres before World War II, Dresden suffered greatly from Allied bombing raids in 1945. Speaker: Marcus Ferrar, Vice-Chairman of the Dresden Trust ![]()
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