{"id":8811,"date":"2020-02-13T13:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:26:41","slug":"gunther-kannegieser-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/gunther-kannegieser-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunther Kannegie\u00dfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Kannegieber5a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8812\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Kannegieber5a.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Kannegieber5a-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Kannegieber5a-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On  February 13th, 1945 the baroque city of Dresden, Germany was firebombed  into cinder by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army  Air Force. The attack was divided into three bombing raids dropping over  4,500 tons of high explosives, including incendiary bombs, onto the  city known as \u201cFlorence on the Elbe.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gunther Kannegie\u00dfer was never able  to recover the bodies of his mother, brother and sister after the  bombing of Dresden.  For many years he searched lists of mass burial  sites for their bodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After the fall of the Berlin Wall and  Reunification more information became available about the location of  mass graves and who was in them.  Spending the majority of his life  looking for the location of the bodies, he found their names on a  document for a mass grave at the Johannisfriedhof Cemetery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In the  back of the cemetery, three stones waist high are erected at the mass  grave without any markings or a list of names.  After Reunification a  small monument was sculpted stating, &#8220;Here lays 3,660 civilians who died  on February 13th, 1945.&#8221; The majority of the bodies in this mass grave  were from Dresden Johannstadt, where Mr Kannegie\u00dfer&#8217;s family lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\n portrait is a part of my From Above project which featured portraits of\n atomic bomb and firebombing survivors from WWII. My limited edition \nbook is available at \nhttps:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/bookstore\/citation.cfm?catalog=I1040&amp;i=&amp;i2=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\n selection of From Above portraits taken in Dresden and also including \nportraits of firebombing survivors from Coventry and Rotterdam, will be \nexhibited in the Dresden Neustadt during May. More information will be \nreleased closer to the opening.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 13th, 1945 the baroque city of Dresden, Germany was firebombed into cinder by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. The attack was divided into three bombing raids dropping over 4,500 tons of high explosives, including incendiary bombs, onto the city known as \u201cFlorence on the Elbe.\u201d Gunther [&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":[588,214,576,367],"class_list":["post-8811","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-gunther-kannegiesser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811","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=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8813,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions\/8813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}