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While walking

Today while walking, I was staring over the skyline of the Altstadt area, just looking. And old gentleman on his bike rode up. Noticing my camera, he pointed over the river and started speaking in German. It must have been obvious I didn't understand. "Sprechen Deutsch?" he asks. "Nich so gut," I reply. "Where from? England?" "The USA" "Ahhhhh, America. 1945 America und British boom Dresden. We make it all again. Hitler ja? Bad. We make it again." He flexes his muscles while smiling.

I was able to gather through a very broken conversation, a few words in English, a few in German, that he lived in Dresden during the war. And he helped dig the city out after it was bombed. and helped rebuild the church pictured in this entry.

It was an interesting sort of interaction, and one that I want to remember.