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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ichih he How former army photographer captured the City both in ruin and renewal by Ron Jensen Niernberg Bureau on the left hand Page insanity rubble and ruin. The by products a the refuse a of War. On the facing Page sanity restored. The rubble and the ruin magically straightened into order. A City dead one Page earlier lives again Only to die and resurrect itself again with the turn of a Page. The Book is called Nurnberg Damalos cute which translates roughly into Quot then and  i he photographer Ray d Addario. Was a Young army photographer in 1945 when he first Laid eyes on the bomb levelled City. He was in Nurnberg to photograph the International military tribunal belter known As the Nurnberg War crimes trial where nazis such As Hermann coring Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer were to receive the Type of Justice they had denied others. Quot All you saw were bricks stones and dust sort of a Gray White color All Over the place. Anything standing was a ruin Quot do Addario said during a recent visit to Nurnberg. Being a photographer d Addario a natural inclination was to trap the images on film during Breaks from the trial. In 1969, do Addario returned to Nurnberg with the photos under his Arm and a photographer s Mission in his heart. A it was interesting to me to find the exact spot so could take a before and after Quot he said. This was difficult in some ways. In 1945, d Addario gained a perspective of each scene by climbing a nearby pile of rubble. In 1969, those piles had been replaced by buildings. He and Margaree his wife born in what was then the sudetenland in Czechoslovakia knocked on doors in order to get to a window that of cred the same View As in 1945. Quot some sting or opens up and sees us standing there and thinks to re Selling books or something Quot d Addario said laughing at the memory. In fact Only one person r fused them entry. The guest took him into a Bookstore owned by Heiko . Quot he was curious about what i was doing walking around the City with a fistful of photos Quot recalled d Addario. Quot they were just souvenir photos to  but to Elstner the photographs were a vivid document in Black and White and color of his City s darkest moment taken at a time when photographic film was impossible to find among the local population. And p Audano s idea to re shoot the photos nearly 25 years later would provide evidence of Nurnberg s rebirth. In 1970, with the help of Kilner and Joseph Drexel the publisher of the Nurnberger a Schrichten newspaper the first edition of Nurnberg pumas Heue was published. It has been published five times since then most recently in 1989 and each time with a few updated photos and has become As much a part of the average Nurnberg household As lace curtains d Audano is frequent in feted a the locals during his co if a Gueci on Page 16 Page 14 a the stars and stripes monday november 9, 1992 the stars and stripes Page 15  
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