DRESDEN, Germany -- Dresden is often associated with the past. Sitting at the midway point between Prague and Berlin, the city is famous for hosting the oldest Christmas market in Germany, for its ...

Text description provided by the architects. Daniel Libeskind's Military History Museum opens today in Dresden. “I wanted to create a bold interruption, a fundamental dislocation, to penetrate the ...

Magnolias were in full bloom in Dresden on a spring day. After getting off the train, a 20-minute walk toward the city center leads to encounters with a succession of historic palaces, churches, and ...

An interior shot of the Museum of Military History. 'This viewing platform is within Libeskind's meteorite and the view of Dresden, the fantastical city of rococo and gothic that was splintered like ...

A statue on the tower of City Hall looking down at the ruins wrought by the Allied firebombing of February 13, 1945 Richard Peter senior, Archive Photos The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 is ...

Rising from the conservative courtyard of the Military History Museum of Dresden, a gleaming metallic wedge heads straight for the wall of the original 1873 Saxon armory building. Without pausing, ...

Winston Churchill had called for increased air raids against the population centers to swamp German authorities. This policy reminds many today of the war in Gaza – forgetting the Dresden history. The ...

New York architect Daniel Libeskind has driven a pointed steel and glass shard through the heart of the war museum in Dresden, which reopens on October 14 after a 22-year closure. Update 17/11/11: see ...

One of the central exhibitions in the post-1945 section of the Military History Museum in Dresden includes an actual German vehicle that was heavily damaged by an improvised explosive device in ...

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