Wettiner Strasse

Wettiner Strasse was renamed to Schweriner Strasse after 1945. (Source: StadtWiki Dresden)

  • 1944, October 8, Sunday morning –  The all clear not until half past one. No one knew what had happened. All anyone said was: Around Wettiner Strasse, Postplatz. Now I began to worry about Eva. She could very easily have been at Postplatz. (Later it turned out that she was within a hairbreadth of having to go down to a cellar there; she was still on the no. 6 tram when the pre-alert sounded.) People from the factories brought news. The tram service was not running, rails had been destroyed close to the Annenkirche, a big crater … **p366
  • 1944, October 10, Tuesday morning (fog and rain) – Yesterday was quiet — but will today be quiet? One’s entire awareness of life is altered. Uneasy waiting until almost one o’clock; the Americans do not usually appear here later than that. Then in the evening: Will the English let us sleep? Somewhat calmer — unjustifiably in fact — in the afternoon. I think: we shall get used to it, I got used to the angina, too. Seidel and Naumann is said to be almost completely destroyed, Wettiner Strasse more badly hit than at first assumed; the number of dead — a Russian barracks! — seems to run into the hundreds. **p368
  • 1944, October 16, Monday afternoon – Toward eleven, we were already asleep, I was roused by thunderous knocking: Neumark and Werner Lang once again, new instruction: everyone, every Jew without exception, had to report at 7:00 a.m. at 33 Wettiner Strasse. I was given a travel permit (which I then did not even use), and I went back to bed. Stühler senior, as I learned later, had a serious argument with Neumark and Lang because he did not want to send his fourteen-year-old boy, Bernhard. — On Sunday morning, I got up at four; half the house set out together. Wettiner Strasse was closed to passersby. A number of houses on the street terribly devastated. [ . . . ]  **p370
  • 1944, October 27, Friday morning – Yesterday morning to the labor exchange in Matemistrasse. They wanted my employment book to make a correction. It was a good thing I went myself instead of sending it in, because there — by the way: courteous treatment — they were not aware that I am permanently released from labor duty. My route (with a few diversions) took me by way of the bombed district (Queckbrunnen, Freiberger Platz). The picture was the same as recently in Wettiner Strasse. Everywhere the destruction was just as it had been on the first day. How must things look in towns that have been seriously hit? **p372
Schweriner Straße 35 (Wettiner Straße 35), 1924
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  • ** I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945, Victor Klemperer, Publisher ‏: ‎ Modern Library; Illustrated edition

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