This day saw 90% of the medieval city destroyed by the RAF in 17 minutes, now I have walked around Bristol, London and even Coventry and never really given much of a thought to them being bombed and burned, largely because what was lost has been replaced with tower blocks and 1960's Britain. However walking around Wurzburg you would never know it had been destroyed. Despite being burnt to the ground with the fire bombing, more so even than Dresden, the City appears untarnished. This we learned was because over the next 20 years from 1945 the buildings of historical importance were painstakingly and accurately replicated.
This did not happen in Coventry
The 2nd picture is part of a replicated church, the image quality is poor as the zoom on the camera was not great. It shows a recreated gargoyle (or grotesque as no water flows from this) the principal being a figure representing evil spirits. As you can see this has been carved by the people of Wurzburg to replicate an Allied soldier, complete with grenades and a weapon.
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