It's amazing how life goes on even as huge chunks of the city lie in ruins.

I guess after four years, you kinda get used to it.

It's amazing how life goes on even as huge chunks of the city lie in ruins.

 

I guess after four years, you kinda get used to it.

True, but life was still hard at that time. Some of these ruins where still there till the 60s and it no matter how often you see this, it's still depressing to see that.

Most of the stuff that was in ruins is rebuild today, but the port was the worst and most of the stuff from that time, is not there anymore.

True, but life was still hard at that time. Some of these ruins where still there till the 60s and it no matter how often you see this, it's still depressing to see that.

 

Most of the stuff that was in ruins is rebuild today, but the port was the worst and most of the stuff from that time, is not there anymore.

So, if this is your hometown, were your grandparents in Bremen around that time?

So, if this is your hometown, were your grandparents in Bremen around that time?

Yes, they where. Both my grandmothers and grandfathers survived the war. My grandfather on my mothers side was part of the Wehrmacht and got away from war prison. He was forced to join the army during the last year of the war, because Hitler was losing his soldiers and barely anyone wanted to join freely.