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Originally Posted by LAsam
Looks like an urban paradise. The perfect mix of old and new on a human scale. Amazingly clean and well kept too. Thanks for sharing!
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Well it's pretty much all new... just a mix of modern and rebuilt traditional styles. The USAF pretty much obliterated anything that was there before 1945.
Frankfurt always got a bad rap from my family in Germany ("Frankfurt is what happens when God shits a pile of concrete" and the like). Like many cities that were rebuilt in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, there was probably a lot of ugly there. But I expect it's improved a lot since the 1980s, and these photos certainly make it look very nice.
Keep in mind the central city looked like this at the end of the war:
http://www.usarmygermany.com/Communi...devastated.jpg