Dignitaries including the German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, gathered in Dresden last month for the presentation of a large gold cross. The cross, searingly bright against the dark Saxon sky, was handed over by the Duke of Kent on behalf of Britain. The day marked the 55th anniversary of Dresden's destruction; the cross a replica of one which crowned the city's Frauenkirche. Fittingly, it had been fashioned by the son of a Royal Air Force flier who had bombed Dresden. "My father was haunted by the bombing," the goldsmith explained. "Until the day of his death he thought it was morally wrong."
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