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Re: Why was Coventry 'coventriert'?
"Coventry had a medieval city centre regarded at the time as the best preserved in Europe"
What about Carcassonne, Nürnberg, York, Prague … and doubtless many other contenders?
"That Dresden has been preserved but Coventry forgotten is something which is hard to explain"
No it isn't. Look at what happened to London, Plymouth, Exeter, Birmingham, Southampton … the list goes on. Maybe it's differing national attitudes, maybe a desire to make a new and better world, maybe the fact that so many of Germany's modernist architects had fled to Britain and the USA before the war.
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