{"id":7732,"date":"2016-11-24T02:16:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T06:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=7732"},"modified":"2016-11-24T02:17:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T06:17:01","slug":"rudolf-eichner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/rudolf-eichner\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudolf Eichner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..November 2016..         ..Dresden..<\/p>\n<p>I recently found out that Mr. Rudolf Eichner passed away.  He was one of the first fire bombing survivors I photographed in Dresden. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Eichner was photographed holding a chess piece that was given to him by his father while he was staying at the hospital.  His father regularly visited him to play chess.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital was destroyed by the second wave of bombers on February 13th, 1945.  The injured struggled to scramble out of the hospital.  Rudolf and a few others sought refuge in a nearby garden where they were cornered by the growing firestorm. <\/p>\n<p>Every year on the anniversary of the bombings Rudolf returned to the spot where he had fought the inferno.  Three years later, February 13th, 1948, he found a chess piece, a black knight, from the chess set destroyed by the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Eichner was a proud man who rigorously fought during the DDR times and after unification for recognition of those who perished in the destruction of Dresden.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Eichner9a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Eichner9a.jpg\" alt=\"eichner9a\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7733\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Eichner9a.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Eichner9a-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Eichner9a-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar _gaq = _gaq || [];   _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12680478-1']);   _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);   (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);   })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..November 2016.. ..Dresden.. I recently found out that Mr. Rudolf Eichner passed away. He was one of the first fire bombing survivors I photographed in Dresden. Mr. Eichner was photographed holding a chess piece that was given to him by his father while he was staying at the hospital. His father regularly visited him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,110],"tags":[588,214,576,650],"class_list":["post-7732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dresden","category-from-above","tag-dresden","tag-dresden-firebombings-february-13-1945","tag-from-above","tag-rudolf-eichner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}