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Dresden mayor 'to lobby against building of Bomber Command memorial’

The mayor of the German city of Dresden has flown into London under pressure from fellow politicians to try to get a planned memorial to Second World War bomber crews scrapped.

Helma Orosz, 57, is officially in Britain to open an exhibition on the bombing of London, her city and that of its twin, Coventry, during the war.

She is under pressure however to get the memorial, which is to recognise the courage of RAF bomber crews, scrapped....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)