Bombsite

Bomb damage to the City of London in 1945

A bombsite is the wreckage that remains after a bomb has destroyed a building or other structure.

World War II bombsites

After World War II many European cities remained severely damaged from bombing. London and other British cities which had suffered the Blitz were pock-marked with bombsites, vacant lots covered in the rubble of destroyed buildings. Many postwar children in urban areas shared a common memory of playing their games and riding their bicycles across these desolate environments.[1][2] There were often abandoned bombshelters of the 'Anderson' type nearby.

In London, Liverpool, Bristol, etc., across the channel in Berlin and other places these sites were constant reminders of the death and destruction of the war. This was a contributory factor to the European psycho-sociological outlook of the 1950s and 1960s.[3][4][5] The German city of Dresden suffered previously unprecedented level of destruction.[6]

In literature and media

The rubble of Viennese bombsites and the remnants of the city's battered infrastructure serve as a backdrop to much of the action in the movie The Third Man, written by Graham Greene, an author who would return to this bombsite motif again in his 1954 short story "The Destructors".

See also

References

  1. ^ Clark, Fred (8 May 2005). "Bombed Houses and Bomb Sites". WW2 People's War: An archive of World War Two memories – written by the public, gathered by the BBC. BBC. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  2. ^ Hill, Roy J. (19 February 2009). "Britain at War: Bomb sites were interesting". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  3. ^ Schofield, John; Johnson, William Gray; Beck, Colleen M. (2004). Materiel Culture: The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Conflict. One World Archaeology. Vol. 44. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0-203-16574-4.
  4. ^ Stephan, Hans (January 1959). "Rebuilding Berlin". The Town Planning Review. 29 (4). Liverpool University Press: 207–226. doi:10.3828/tpr.29.4.v855122271m87750. JSTOR 40102263.
  5. ^ New Society. 59. New Society Ltd.: 217–218 1982. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Photo Gallery: Dresden's Postwar Ambitions Divide Architects". Der Spiegel.

Further reading

  • Moshenska, G. (2009). "Resonant Materiality and Violent Remembering: Archaeology, Memory and Bombing". International Journal of Heritage Studies. 15 (1): 44–56. doi:10.1080/13527250902746062. S2CID 144528743.
  • Mellor, L. (2004). "Words from the bombsites: debris, modernism and literary salvage". Critical Quarterly. 46 (4): 77–90. doi:10.1111/j.0011-1562.2004.00598.x.
  • Schofield, John (2002). "Monuments and the memories of war: motivations for preserving military sites in England". In Beck, Colleen M.; Johnson, William Gray; Schofield, John (eds.). Matériel Culture: The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Conflict. One World Archaeology. Vol. 44. London, UK: Routledge. pp. 143–158.
  • James, J. (2006). "Undoing Trauma: Reconstructing the Church of Our Lady in Dresden". Ethos. 34 (2): 244–272. doi:10.1525/eth.2006.34.2.244. S2CID 84177597.
  • Moeller, Robert G. (2006). "On the History of Man-made Destruction: Loss, Death, Memory, and Germany in the Bombing War". History Workshop Journal. 61: 103–134. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbi057.

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