Many buildings in Dresden were still in ruins due to the bombing, as they still had to walk through rubble and stones to get from one building to the next. After having lived with his aunt Gretel for a while, he moved into an apartment with some friends in the same street as the apartment of Marianna Oefinger, known as Emma, whom he married in 1957. At the academy, he was trained academically, marked by socialist realism. He joined the department for mural painting, which was a bit less strict. For his thesis, he would paint a mural for the Deutsches Hygienemuseum, which was received very well, resulting in a position in the academy's program for promising students.

Homes, streets, parks once bustling with life now in ruins.

They actually shake their heads They say no what this is about is about ending a hundred years or more than a hundred years of foreign domination and division of their country and regaining their independence and national sovereignty This country once defeated the greatest military power on earth Today they are celebrating that victory Watching over them the father of the revolution Ho Chi Minh Here to their fraternal allies from China the first North Vietnamese troops entered the city it was a moment of Humiliation for America and its allies as North Vietnamese troops entered the presidential compound When North Vietnamese tanks smashed through those gates behind me here on April the 30th 1975 it brought to an end the South Vietnamese regime and the country of South Vietnam It ended 20 years of incredibly brutal conflict between the north and the south That had taken anywhere between two and three million lives 75 year old Le Thanh Yen shows me a picture of his comrades who survived many others did not He himself was badly injured four times Many of our comrades were lost he tells me there were battles where it seemed like we would all be killed But somehow some of us survived and in the end we achieved victory They achieved victory, but their country lay in ruins in four years the u.s.

Most hotels and tall buildings are in ruins, and lots of people are under the rubble.

Did someone break your heart inside, you're in ruins?

I know you know, it felt just like a joke, I'm sure you don't know we're talking I know you ghost, I see her through the smoke, she'll play her show, you'll be watching And if history's clear, someone always ends up in ruins, it would seem like fate that quits, what the hell was I doing?

You're in ruins.

Even though the shrine has been in ruins for so many years, it's still easy to see from the remaining foundation that, while it was not a large shrine, it was still impeccably built.

Europe finds itself in ruins and is exhausted by war.

One of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, left in ruins.