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?

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.

They kill anything a complete breakdown of society where women and children suffer most They raped me I had my six-year-old with me they raped her too a Country where one in five victims of sexual abuse are under the age of 18 Port-au-Prince is the worst place in the world to be a woman Haiti is on the brink of collapse We've just been shot at by one of the gangs and they've shot our front tire which has gone flat and the fight is intensifying When we're fighting we are possessed we are no longer human we become the devil Jamu this is the front line of a growing war against the gangs This is Delmas 30 the scene of a recent gang attack Women were raped families murdered an entire neighborhood now in ruins Rodrigue is going back for the first time and is taking us with him So the gangs are stationed about two blocks away and we're going into Rodrigues neighborhood, which is still contested territory We're being escorted by vigilantes.